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: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:00:46 +0100
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 03:45 pm, Ondra Cada wrote:
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.
So instead of trying your best to help the user out you should just
annoy them all the time? Hmm. It also works very well. I have never
been confused by aliases.
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)!
Are you claiming here that the user moved the file to deliberately
break your app's reference to it? If so, I rotfl, if not, the fact that
the user moved the file for a reason is self-evident and I fail to see
how it's relevant.
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.
No, it would be like forgetting where your car was and having to walk
around the neighbourhood until you found it again. Your house door
moving would be like your app moving with the file. At least, that's
how I'd look at it.
-- Finlay
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