Re: Alias Files
Re: Alias Files
- Subject: Re: Alias Files
- From: Neil Laubenthal <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:43:56 -0400
Obvious solution . . . just get a bigger drive and keep all the real
files in it instead of using aliases . . . or keep them on a file
server or something:-)
Drive space being limited however . . . what you may need is an app
that lets you know which volume has a certain file on it.
I use a packages named CDFinder for this . . . essentially it catalogs
every disk you insert into a database. It's purpose is to let you
archive all that stuff, provide a searchable archive, and when you
double click on a search result it pops up a dialog that says "please
insert disk whateveritsnameis" . . . then if you have properly labeled
your archived disks (this is always the hard part for me) and if the
archive disk hasn't gone bad you pop in the disk and the file opens.
Keeping them on a file server for both backup purposes and
accessibility from other machines purposes is good . . .but with the
slower performance of Spotlight when searching network volumes I just
keep a good deal of this archived type stuff/pdfs/web pages/text
notes/whathaveyou in a folder called ~/Stuff on my laptop. This folder
gets copied weekly to my file server and hourly via Time Machine to my
network Time Machine destination for backup purposes. The whole folder
is only a GB or so by now . . .but then I also keep stuff in email
form but on IMAP servers so it's both backed up and easily searchble
by Spotlight.
I've gone through and tried/tested/discarded about a dozen
tidbit/snippet archiving systems (SOHO, DevonTHINK, Yojimbo, and most
of the other popular options) and found nothing better than this
system to provide a fast, backupable, easy to use, easy to get stuff
in and out of sort of shoebox system.
Quoting Luther Fuller <email@hidden>:
Let's start with a frustrating scenario: You have a folder full of
alias files. Lots of them. And you know that one of them points to a
file you want, so you double-click it. Instead of opening the file, you
get "Finder got an error: Can't get original item of alias file ... ".
In other words, the disk containing the file isn't mounted. (In
AppleScript, asking for the 'original item' of the alias file gives you
the same error message.)
--
There are only three kinds of stress . . .your basic nuclear stress, cooking
stress, and A$$ho1e stress. The key to relating them is . . . Jello.
neil
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