Create folder shortcut Android-Nemo? [answered]

asked 2016-10-23 06:52:37 +0300

DarkTuring gravatar image

updated 2016-10-23 23:17:13 +0300

I want to create a shortcut to the external SD card folder or in other words a folder alias that i can have located in the virtual Android storage section of the phone. Some android apps cannot access the non-android storage portions of the storage including the external SD card.

While terminal commands are available it would also be nice to incorporate create shortcuts and aliases in the native file browser.

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Only if your sdcard ext4 you can easily symlink folder. If not you can try to bind mount it.

coderus ( 2016-10-23 11:04:35 +0300 )edit

Thanks here is a good description using unix commands for the symlink:

command pretty straight forward using a terminal:

ln -s /external/sdcard/folder/ /symlink/destination/folder

successful link to sd card

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84175/create-a-symbolic-link-relative-to-the-current-directory

DarkTuring ( 2016-10-23 21:58:25 +0300 )edit

turns out android file and folder management apps cannot handle the symbolic link function, the External SD link is visible but greyed out and cannot be selected. Ill have to see if bind mounting works.

DarkTuring ( 2016-10-23 22:49:10 +0300 )edit