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   Removing dangling files   
   01 Jan 14 22:18:57   
   
   From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   HP 6730b laptop with Win7/MD2009/MD2011/MG2/MG3 installed   
      
   I'm just catching up on various NG's in which I've fallen behind in my   
   reading. Tonight, I've been reading a.o.l.mageia and, back in September   
   2013, in a thread called "Problem with Kwrite and Konqueror since recent   
   updates.", Bit Twister advised Santos to ....   
      
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   Just for fun, click up a terminal,   
        su - root   
        locate symlinks   
   If that does not return something like /whatever/bin/symlinks, do a   
        urpmi symlinks   
   now do a   
        symlinks -r / | grep dangling   
   What you might find is a bunch of links which are pointing to files   
   which do not exist on your install.   
   End Quote   
      
   I did this on my MD2009 and it seems I've got about 100 dangling links.   
   A "man dangle" showed nothing, so I thought I'd ask here how do I delete   
   these dangling links?? Is it a separate command for each dangle, or can   
   they be removed in one sweep??   
      
   I realise working on MD2009 might be a bit out of date, but, I'm hoping   
   to update my MG3 soon and would like to get rid of any dangles there as   
   well.   
      
   Daniel   
   (Happy New Year to one and all!!)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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