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How do you create a working Hard Link in OSX?
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Ok, this has me banging my head. In OS X, to create a hard link, in a terminal window, you're supposed to be able to just type this... ...and this should create a hard link from to . Simple and straight forward. When I execute that statement, sure enough, in Finder appears right alongside . However…
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ln a.txt b.txt
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Fix for: How do you create a working Hard Link in OSX?
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The reason for this behavior is rather straightforward, and it relates to how files are saved in most Mac OS X applications: Atomically. What happens is that a copy of the file is written to a temporary staging area, and then moved to replace the or…
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