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Re: Virtual Folders in Mac
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Re: Virtual Folders in Mac


  • Subject: Re: Virtual Folders in Mac
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:59:30 +1100

On 23/12/2009, at 4:39 PM, Akash Nemani wrote:

> Is there a way to get a virtual folder in mac? Something like the win 7
> library folder? Basically I am trying to create a folder in which if a file
> is copied or dragged, it creates a  link to the original file into the
> folder instead of copying the file. I saw that Burn folder is something
> similar. But I dont want the burn button in it and would like to create
> symbolic link instead of alias in the folder since I can access the path of
> the original file using readlink or stat functions.


Not 100% sure, but I think you can achieve this using Folder Actions.

This isn't a Cocoa question though, so expect to be upbraided for being off-topic.

--Graham


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