Re: Tracking files the right way
Re: Tracking files the right way
- Subject: Re: Tracking files the right way
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:29:15 -0400
The Dock is broken, then. If I update Mozilla or OmniWeb by dragging
a new copy off of the disk image and letting the Finder do the 'a file
already exists at that location with the same name... replace?'
routine, the dock icon can no longer be launched by clicking on it and
the Internet Preferences revert to IE.
I haven't checked the preferences, but the Dock certainly still behaves
this way in 10.2 -- at least with Mozilla (which is only different from
OmniWeb in that the app is inside the folder).
This situation is fixed by launching the app directly from the Finder
itself. Once that is done, the Dock icon is reconnected to the app as
at the point in the filesystem where the user (or at least I) expect.
I believe, the situation can also be fixed by emptying the trash.
Clearly, the dock is relying on Alias like behavior and only falling
back to path if the alias leads to a nonexistent file. This bug could
likely be fixed if the Dock were to simply check to see if the
referenced app is in the trash and fall back to path if it is --
display a ? if not.
Another bugreport.apple.com visit is obviously required. :-)
On Friday, Aug 30, 2002, at 01:26 US/Eastern, Rosyna wrote:
Aliases used to do this, and in fact still do. As long as you click
the icon in the dock and not the icon in the finder.
Ack, at 8/29/02, John C. Randolph said:
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.
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