Finder folder names
Finder folder names
- Subject: Finder folder names
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:11:40 -0600
As we know, Leopard's Finder introduced a lot of nonsense. Here's
another ...
My script creates internet locator files pointing to folders. The
internet locator files are used in a Dock folder menu and I used them,
instead of alias files, to avoid a really ugly hierarchical menu.
Located elsewhere, these same target folders also have an alias file
pointing to them and they all have the common name "x".
The problem with internet locator files is that they do not follow
changes to the original folder like alias files do. Renaming or
relocating the original will break the internet locator file.
Then I had a "bright" idea: Why not point the internet locator file to
the alias file "x". The alias file is well hidden and is not going to
be renamed or moved and it DOES follow changes to the original.
So I changed two lines of code and recompiled. And Surprise! Now, when
I open a folder using one of the internet locator files, the name of
the folder is "x". I had been operating under the assumption that a
folder window BELONGED TO its folder and, therefore, had the same name
as its folder.
Makes perfect sense, but just not true. But it should be true. Why
should a window showing the contents of a folder have any other name
but the name of the folder. Command-mouse_down on the window name DOES
show the correct path to the folder.
Surely, this is a bug. (With features like this ...)
Who knows?
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