The cloud directory name "Ubuntu One" has a space in it....

[Robert Bruce Park]

On 12-12-26 06:52 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> this causes problems when I try to use the directory for my source code
> projects that use make or when I put configuration files for dosemu in there,
> or a thousand other situations, when spaces in directory names cause
> problems....
>
> I can of course create a link to it with a name without space, but it would
> be much better if I, in the UbuntuOne tool could rename it to "UbuntuOne".
>
> Adding another storage under a different name, is not an options since
> I cannot remove the "Ubuntu One" directory and I do not want to have two
> cloud storage directories.

I get around this by symlinking the individual files into the Ubuntu One 
folder. Eg:

$ ls -la .dircolors
lrwxrwxrwx 1 robru robru 20 Oct  3 10:47 .dircolors -> Ubuntu One/dircolors

This has the benefit that apps find their config files in the default 
places, and U1 still syncs them anyway.