Symlinking per your example ln -s ~/OneDrive\ -\ Documents/X\ Documents ~/Downlaods/X\ Documents This is why I have gotten in the habbit of just typing out the whole path just to be sure I'm putting the link exactly where I want it. Keep in mind that the tilde (~) changes for each user. Ln -s "/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Personal Stuff" "~/OneDrive/Personal Stuff" You can use it when creating your symlinks with no problem: So, instead of typing out /Users/USERNAME/foo/bar/filename.ext you can simply shorten it to ~/foo/bar/filename.ext The tilde (~) is just a shortcut to your home directory. Using the tilde (~) for your home directory Ln -s "/Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Personal Stuff" "Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Personal Stuff" Use quotes (") to encapsulate the whole string: Ln -s /Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Personal\ Stuff /Users/USERNAME/Documents/Personal\ Stuff Using the example from above, if the folder was called Personal Stuff we could handle it one of two ways: There are two ways to address spaces within the path or filename. Now, in your "Documents" folder, you will see a folder called "Personal." Spaces in the path and/or filename ln -s /Users/USERNAME/OneDrive/Personal /Users/USERNAME/Documents/Personal Let's say we are trying to create a link from a folder called "Personal" that's located on OneDrive and you want it to show up under Documents. More specifically, it must take on the form ln -s /path/to/source /path/to/target To get a file symlinked from your Documents folder to your OneDrive folder (or any folder for that matter) you need to format the command completely and properly Creating a symlink: ln -s SOURCE TARGET Thank you again for your time helping me out with this. What I would like to happen, is when I open the folder X Documents, I am redirected to the source directory I described earlier (X Documents within Documents within OneDrive) The target I would like to be found in folder in my defaults downloads location: ~/Downloads/X Documents 'Documents' is a subfolder of OneDrive and 'X\ Documents' is a subfolder of 'Documents'. The second part (after the first space) where is states 'PATH TO TARGET" is some part of the directory which is required to connect to the server or something like that. The first part is the location of the folder on my drive. Here the directory that I want to link to: /Users/NAME/OneDrive\ -\ PATH\ TO\ TARGET/Documents/X\ Documents I made a mistake in my question with the directories, but I think it is a bit too big to correct, so I am going to rewrite it here if it's alright. If something in this question is unclear, please leave a comment and I will do my best to clarify. I am quite inexperienced in this, but I was thinking maybe you can do something like quotation marks for Terminal to consider it one 'term'? I tried rewriting it in different ways for it to be without any spaces as symlink requires there to be like that, but had no luck. Z\ Documents is the name of a subfolder of ( ~/Documents) Users/Name/OneDrive\ -\ X\ Y\ Education/Documents/Z\ Documents The file I want to symlink to is in the following format: I did research beforehand on google How to Sync Any Folder to the Cloud With Symbolic Links and on Ask Different, but I still cannot find an answer to this specific question.
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