Solved Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?
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I uploaded an image file to my one drive account. I then created a link to that file from the one drive portal. This creates a file with a .url extension. Is it possible to change the target that the .url link points to?
My use case is for the logo we use in our email signatures. I want to create a generic link that will always point to the current logo that our management wants to use in our email signatures. Then if they decide to change it later I can just update the link to point to a different image.
I can't fine anywhere in one drive that lets you change the target of a .url link file.
I guess I can use bitly but I was trying to keep it all within one drive since we already have access to that.
This is what I have at the moment:
primary-email-sig.url is a link to the other file. If I wanted to change that target to point to a different image can I do that? I can't find anyplace that appears to allow that.
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@BraswellJay said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.
That's what I want to be able to edit. Unless I'm missing something you can't edit the url link file directly in the onedrive portal. If you try to edit from the portal you're taken to editing the target of the link and not the link itself.
I can download the link file and edit it and reupload. I just thought there would be a way to accomplish that directly from the portal without having to download, edit, and reupload, but maybe not.
Oh, no, you definitely have to download it and edit it. OneDrive doesn't give you a generic desktop to edit files from. It's just a storage solution itself. I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage except for NextCloud. And it's always super limited because there are challenges to that.
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@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.
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@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.
That's what I want to be able to edit. Unless I'm missing something you can't edit the url link file directly in the onedrive portal. If you try to edit from the portal you're taken to editing the target of the link and not the link itself.
I can download the link file and edit it and reupload. I just thought there would be a way to accomplish that directly from the portal without having to download, edit, and reupload, but maybe not.
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@BraswellJay said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.
That's what I want to be able to edit. Unless I'm missing something you can't edit the url link file directly in the onedrive portal. If you try to edit from the portal you're taken to editing the target of the link and not the link itself.
I can download the link file and edit it and reupload. I just thought there would be a way to accomplish that directly from the portal without having to download, edit, and reupload, but maybe not.
Oh, no, you definitely have to download it and edit it. OneDrive doesn't give you a generic desktop to edit files from. It's just a storage solution itself. I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage except for NextCloud. And it's always super limited because there are challenges to that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@BraswellJay said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.
That's what I want to be able to edit. Unless I'm missing something you can't edit the url link file directly in the onedrive portal. If you try to edit from the portal you're taken to editing the target of the link and not the link itself.
I can download the link file and edit it and reupload. I just thought there would be a way to accomplish that directly from the portal without having to download, edit, and reupload, but maybe not.
Oh, no, you definitely have to download it and edit it. OneDrive doesn't give you a generic desktop to edit files from. It's just a storage solution itself. I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage except for NextCloud. And it's always super limited because there are challenges to that.
Ok, thanks. That answers my questions then.
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@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage
OneDrive does let you edit files directly, in the storage.
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@Obsolesce oh cool, that's new since I last used it. Definitely wasn't there the last time I tried it. But I almost never use it so that's understandable.
We get something similar in GitLab. It's really nice. And on MeshCentral.
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@Obsolesce said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage
OneDrive does let you edit files directly, in the storage.
How were you able to bring up the editor? Did you just click on file name? When I do that on a url link file it just takes me to the file that the link is pointing to. I can then edit that target file. In my case it brings up an image editor since the target is a .png file. I can't seem to find a way to edit the text of the url link file itself without downloading it first.
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@BraswellJay said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@Obsolesce said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:
I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage
OneDrive does let you edit files directly, in the storage.
How were you able to bring up the editor? Did you just click on file name? When I do that on a url link file it just takes me to the file that the link is pointing to. I can then edit that target file. In my case it brings up an image editor since the target is a .png file. I can't seem to find a way to edit the text of the url link file itself without downloading it first.
I just clicked on the file.
However, if you really think about it, you want exactly the behavior you are seeing. Imagine if clicking on the .url file it brought up the editor for users instead of taking them to the pointer file?
That said, can you right-click on it in the browser and open it in text editor? If not, then I guess you'll just have to do it on your computer.
