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Re: NSFileManager and aliases
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Re: NSFileManager and aliases


  • Subject: Re: NSFileManager and aliases
  • From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:51:00 -0700

This can be addressed semi-easily. Just drag the updated application on top of the folder containing the old one and click replace. Once you move the file to the trash, the alias starts pointing to the new location. This is a feature, not a bug. Imagine if a user moves the application, then sticks a file/folder with the old name in the same place as it used to be.

And hardlinks don't work across volumes, symlinks do.

Ack, at 4/15/02, Erik M. Buck said:

- Symlinks work well in network environments with multiple network volumes.
For example, a sys-admin can install an update of an application and every
user's symlinks automatically point to the update. With aliases, this is not
so easy. The admin may have to log into every users machine to update
aliases and the admin may not even know all the aliases that users have
created.

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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug

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