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 13:50:35 -0400
Exactly. The problem is that a number of applications-- iTunes
included-- resolve the symlink and store the resolved, potentially
host/account/phase-of-moon specific, path instead of the symbolic path.
Keeping this on the topic of cocoa-dev, this is definitely something
that app authors should be very careful of. I would highly recommend
that folks install OS X Server somewhere and compare paths and app
behavior between server and client machines for accounts that use
shared/mounted home directories.
As well, do the same for apps and documents that live on iDisk and
windows shares...
If your app does not work on non-HFS+ filesystems, make sure you at
least detect this situation and give the user a useful error message
(as opposed to the completely random behavior exhibited by many apps
now).
b.bum
On Friday, Aug 30, 2002, at 12:54 US/Eastern, Ondra Cada wrote:
That's what symlinks are for: to keep paths invariant, whatever setup
and mountpoints you happen to use (if neede at all -- so far as I
recall, I've always *mounted* so that paths were invariant).
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