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  • Subject: Re: Question
  • From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:08:20 -0600
  • Mail-followup-to: email@hidden, Cocoa Dev List <email@hidden>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:59:29PM -0800, email@hidden wrote:
> Could somebody please tell me why I cannot rename an open application bundle in Mac OS X? I see no logic in this whatsoever. One of the new annoyances with Mac OS X.

Many applications store paths to files in their bundles. Rename the
app and you break access to these files. Yeah, everyone should use
aliases or FSRefs, but (especially Cocoa apps) do not.

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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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