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Show if a file is a link in Nautilus File Manager (but not whence [target])

Recently I discovered the following two ways to show if a file is a link in Nautilus List View. Sadly I have not been able to find a way for list view to show the link target, which Nautilus used to do. (For an individual file, one can determine it via File >> Properties .)

  1.  In list view , each file has an icon on far left, and a link superimposes onto that icon a “badge” that is a curvy arrow. The trouble is that this is faint, which is why I never noticed it before!  After a long time of trying to change the default badge for a link to something more noticeable, I gave up. I can do it for an individual file, but not for the class of all files having a link.
  2. FInally I figured out how to  denote all files that are actually links  in the list view, via the unix “permissions”  which include a leading ℓ if it is a link.  I think this is how:
    edit>>preferences>>list columns pane: I now place checks next to:
    Name
    Size
    Date  Mod
    Group
    Owner
    Permissions
  3. Sadly, I have not found a way for the list view to automatically show the link target (i.e. the name of the file that each link is attached to), as it used to. That is, I cannot create a column showing this information in the list view. As noted above, for an individual file, one can determine it via File >> Properties .)
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