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: "Clark S. Cox III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:26:59 -0400
On 08/28/2002 13:30, "Ondra Cada" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 07:00 , Rosyna wrote:
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> No it's not, the Alias manager does just this. It's the entire reason it
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> exists.
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It *was* the entire reason it *existed*.
So, the Alias manager doesn't exist anymore? That's news to me.
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It can't do it anymore. That was
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possible in the already dead system, in which
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(i) there was no way to move a file between volumes;
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(ii) volumes were cleanly distinct and at the first look you saw which is
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which.
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In Mac OS X -- thanks God! -- none of these serious limitations applies
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anymore. There is a number of possibilities to move files across volumes,
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*and* volumes can be mounted just anywhere, looking exactly like a plain
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folder.
How, exactly, would one *move* a file between volumes (without copying
to the new location, and deleting from the old location)
--
Clark S. Cox III
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