Re: Moving files in Mac OS X
Re: Moving files in Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Moving files in Mac OS X
- From: What does not kill you only makes you stronger <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:28:15 -0600
on 12/03/01 12:52 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Agreed, but to those blindly converting classic scripts to Mac OS X without
doing too much of a code check might be in for a rude awakening. Maybe make
the default move a copy, and add an additional parameter to make it delete
the orig. item.
It would also be very handy to be able to duplicate/move files and specify a
new name.
duplicate x to y with properties {name: z}
Nate
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At 18:00 -0600 12/2/2001, What does not kill you only makes you stronger
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wrote:
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> Not sure if this has been covered here yet, but be careful with Mac OS X
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> Finders' move command when used from one volume to another. It now
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> actually does a move, and not a copy.
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This is probably a good change (although it will catch people). It matches
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the command line "mv" command (which, across file systems, actually does a
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copy followed by an rm). rm, in turn, either does or doesn't delete the
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file itself, but does forget about this name for it...if the file is no
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longer referenced THEN it is deleted.
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In 10 years, no one will care that move used to copy. (And mv's most
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common use will continue to be to rename a file without doing any moving
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either logical or physical.)