Re: Keeping track of files, i.e. aliases, NSURL's?
Re: Keeping track of files, i.e. aliases, NSURL's?
- Subject: Re: Keeping track of files, i.e. aliases, NSURL's?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:45:52 +0200
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 04:16 , Finlay Dobbie wrote:
The preferred way is *NOT* to do that, since it is error-prone and
brings a completely crazy behaviours. All what is needed is to have
another filesystem mounted, and at once -- from plain user's POV quite
mysteriously -- any "move tracking" becomes to work in a completely
haphazard way.
Ondra, I'm sure we've had this debate before,
We did.
and you lost ;-)
You did ;)
The best and most convenient way to handle a file which disappeared is
to show an alert "Hey! File XXX disappeared -- you must have deleted or
moved it.".
And you claim THAT is a good user experience?
That is the only possible one, since it is plain impossible to track moved
files. It can be done *sometimes* only. A warning always is ways better
than an inconsistent behaviour.
Nevertheless, even if it *was* possible it would be *wrong*! It was the
user who moved the file, and he did so for some reason (otherwise he would
obviously not do that)! What you are saying is the very same nonsense as
if, in case you parked your car round the corner, you wanted your house
door to move automatically and without any warning round the corner too.
---
Ondra Cada
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