iPhone Are these duplicate files?

[uisim151]

I have a emulator on my phone and put the roms in the file; var/mobile/documents. While looking into modifying some icons I stumbled accross the folder; [raw file system] user/documents and noticed the roms are in there as well. is this supposed to be like that?

 

[zone23]

I believe the "/var" is a system link its not an actual folder. Its kind of like a shortcut on a windows desktop.

 

[dasx]

/Var is a symbolic link.

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I believe the "/var" is a system link its not an actual folder. Its kind of like a shortcut on a windows desktop.

Shortcuts as you know them in Windows are different, more similar to aliases in Mac. Symbolic links are different.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

 

[uisim151]

/Var is a symbolic link.

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Shortcuts as you know them in Windows are different, more similar to aliases in Mac. Symbolic links are different.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

interesting...learn something new every day.. thanks to you and everyone for the quick reply.

 

[Menneisyys2]

interesting...learn something new every day.. thanks to you and everyone for the quick reply.

Also note that symlinks are HUGELY useful when you want to map, say, another directory to an AppStore app. See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1464236/ for more info.

 

[uisim151]

Also note that symlinks are HUGELY useful when you want to map, say, another directory to an AppStore app. See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1464236/ for more info.

I could actually use this!, really good info, thanks a lot

 

[zone23]

/Var is a symbolic link.

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Shortcuts as you know them in Windows are different, more similar to aliases in Mac. Symbolic links are different.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

Ahhh the symbolic link my bad. Thanks.