Organize Things On OSX With Symbolic Links

If you want to move for example your Downloads folder to another drive, you can use Symbolic links to do that and organize your folders. Here is how:

1. Ensure that you are working within your home folder, type
   cd
2. Move the Downloads folder to your second drive, replacing Data (the name of my second drive) with whatever yours is called. You may be prompted for your OS X password.

   sudo mv ~/Downloads /Volumes/Data/Downloads

3. Create a symlink to allow you to access your new Downloads folder in the old location. Again, replace Data with the name of your second drive.

   ln -s /Volumes/Data/Downloads ~/Downloads