Re: Tracking files the right way
Re: Tracking files the right way
- Subject: Re: Tracking files the right way
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:39:31 -0700
Ack, at 8/30/02, Bill Bumgarner said:
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.
AFAIK, iTunes uses aliases to store references to files. I think
iPhoto might too (it might not given the funky names it names files
and the place it puts them)
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.
Has Apple released a technote on the difference between server and
client? If so, where? If not, they should ;)
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).
I completely agree, but it's hard to say it won't work on UFS if it's
never tested. It may work just jim dandy. It might not work at all.
If it works fine, why scare the user?
--
Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
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Please include any previous correspondence in replies, it helps me
remember what we were talking about. Thanks.
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