Re: Tracking files the right way
Re: Tracking files the right way
- Subject: Re: Tracking files the right way
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:42:05 -0700
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 06:22 PM, Mike Shields wrote:
The only argument I've heard for using paths over aliases is that
someone wants to be able to trick an app into creating a new file by
moving the file being edited from underneath the app. Lame reason > IMHO.
A better reason, IMHO, is that someone might want to replace an app and
let the dock still be able to find it, even if it has a new inode. If
I drag OmniWeb to the trash because I went and downloaded the latest
version, it would be nice if my internet prefs could find it just
because I put the new version at the same path.
-jcr
John C. Randolph <email@hidden> (408) 974-8819
Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/index.html
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