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 ====== Symbolic Link ======
-Here is an article about [[https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/|Symbolic Link]]. Why should you care about Symbolic Link. In addtion to the reasons stated in the article, there is the case of using two hard drives in a compter. A symbolic link can point to another physical hard drive. If you happen to be using a small SSD (Solid State Drive) for the operating system (because booting and program loads are fast), you could use a symbolic link to point to the location on a high capacity HD.
+Here is an article about [[https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/|Symbolic Link]]. Why should you care about Symbolic Link. In addtion to the reasons stated in the article, there is the case of using two hard drives in a compter. A symbolic link can point to another physical hard drive. If you happen to be using a small SSD (Solid State Drive) for the operating system (because booting and program loads are fast), you could use a symbolic link for your "Documents" or "Pictures".  The link would point to a location on the HD, thus not allowing large amounts of documents or pictures to fill up your SSD.