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 19:30:46 +0200
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 07:00 , Rosyna wrote:
No it's not, the Alias manager does just this. It's the entire reason it
exists.
It *was* the entire reason it *existed*. It can't do it anymore. That was
possible in the already dead system, in which
(i) there was no way to move a file between volumes;
(ii) volumes were cleanly distinct and at the first look you saw which is
which.
In Mac OS X -- thanks God! -- none of these serious limitations applies
anymore. There is a number of possibilities to move files across volumes,
*and* volumes can be mounted just anywhere, looking exactly like a plain
folder.
The result is that -- as I've written -- there is no reliable way to track
a moved file anymore.
Incidentally, this is a last message from me in this thread. This very
issue was debated a hundred times over; always in beginning "alias-liker"
OS9 diehards claimed that after all moved files can be tracked, and
*always* at the end it was found that quite unequivocally it is *NOT*
possible (but in some special cases, like an inside-volume move). I won't
go through it again.
---
Ondra Cada
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