Re: Error-trapping alias properties
Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- Subject: Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:41:43 -0800
On 3/30/02 3:30 PM, "Andy Wylie" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I think Emmanuel dropped a red herring when he wrote...
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>> Here is the answer I got (no typo): alias "Macintosh HDtest file".
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>> As you would expect, if you test "at hand" that alias, it errors fully.
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>> Does that reflect a way the Classic OS stores a "invalid but don't tell my
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>> mother" alias?
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A particular version if that missing colon in the alias is not a typo.
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What's odder is Paul Skinner wrote...
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>>> If I empty the trash then I get...
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>>> alias "OSXUsers:paulskin:Desktop:testFile"
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>>> Note that the missing colon is NOT a typo.
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>>> If I logout and log back in I get...
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>>> alias "OSXUsers:paulskin:Desktop:testFile"
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did he somehow get Emmanuel's colon?
No - it's the same one missing. In OS X, "Users" is the first folder on the
root of the HD, inside which are the separate username folders (e.g.
"paulskin") which each has its own Desktop folder. So there's a first
missing colon between his HD partition which he calls "OS X" and the
"Users" folder - it would normally read "OS X:Users:". Probably you know all
this, but I'm not quite sure what you meant by your joke at the end in that
case.
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Paul Berkowitz
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