Re: What the heck is this !? (reassigned alias)
Re: What the heck is this !? (reassigned alias)
- Subject: Re: What the heck is this !? (reassigned alias)
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:45:47 -0700
At 12:16 AM +0100 9/9/02, Mr Tea wrote:
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I was clearing some old junk out of my script menu (OS X), and looked at a
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script that had pointed to a folder in my home directory a couple of
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re-installs back. By rights, it should be broken, but instead it looks like
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this:
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alias
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"Mezzanine!:System:Library:Frameworks:Kernel.framework:Versions:A:Resources:
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English.lproj:Documentation:Reference:Kernel:IOFWLocalIsochPort:Classes:IOFW
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LocalIsochPort:Vars:"
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What's that, then?
You got a reused file ID. Aliases save file IDs so they can find files after they've been renamed. Backing up and restoring a volume will restart the file ID count, so it's easy to get a duplicate file ID in this scenario. Now your alias failed to find its proper file, so it tried the file ID and there is one, so it thinks that's your file.
Of course, in reality it is not, but you knew that already.
Jon
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