Re: NSFileManager and aliases
Re: NSFileManager and aliases
- Subject: Re: NSFileManager and aliases
- From: Alex Curylo <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:38:11 -0700
>
Anyone who understand aliases well
>
wants to comment on from that POV?
Well, IMHO this I-want-aliases-to-act-like-symlinks rather misses the point.
Aliases are for when you want to keep track of a particular file no matter
where it gets itself to behind your back, like in a media repository a la
the iTunes library for instance. Your examples of why aliases suck are based
on the completely different theory of wanting to keep track of a location no
matter what file happens to show up there, which is the job of a symlink. So
keep file ids for the one, and paths for the other, and use the right tool
for the task at hand.
That said, having one user level object with a switchable behavior probably
is about the best way to resolve this issue once and for all.
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