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 21:18:53 -0400
On Friday, Aug 30, 2002, at 18:34 US/Eastern, Rosyna wrote:
Ack, at 8/30/02, Bill Bumgarner said:
The behavior I have experienced-- on OS 9 and prior, not just OS X--
was for the applications to merrily open and edit the document in the
trash with zero warning to the user.
Except when the file is double-clicked in the finder and it was in the
trash ;)
Exactly: the user is generally bright enough not to try and open
stuff directly from the trash. Yet, application's often only warn the
user if something is opened directly from the trash.
In the cases where I have had to track down and fix various problems of
this nature, it has been because one of my family member's has used a
"recent items" type menu/feature to open the a document that was
recently edited that happened to have been moved to the trash for some
other reason. The app merrily opened the trashed document anyway and
the user was quite confused that their changes were relegated to the
great bit bucket in the sky....
....
In what *exact* cases have you seen the private directory?
iTunes has caused a reference to pass through a /private/automount/
directory on occasion. I have also found various random references
through /private/automount/ in my ~/Library/Preferences -- most of
these tend to fail silently. As I generally don't use the "recent
items" menu, I have missed a lot of the silliness that happens when a
bad path slips into that context.
Personally, I mostly work on a relatively standalone machine -- a
TiBook -- that mounts different filesystems in different contexts. As
I'm oriented to ensuring that the system remains useful in isolated
contexts (such as a train w/no IP), I'm fairly careful about making
sure that I have a copy of various resources in the local filesystem.
However, I have not had the same luck in networked environments. It
seems that the further away from an HFS+ system you go, the more likely
it is that various legacy applications -- Office, Radio Userland,
PhotoShop, etc... -- will barf up some random FS related error as you
move a particular system between environments.
b.bum
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