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Re: Renaming a file repositions icon in Finder
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Re: Renaming a file repositions icon in Finder


  • Subject: Re: Renaming a file repositions icon in Finder
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 18:45:53 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On 5/8/09 2:52 PM, Jim Turner said:

>It appears that renaming a file will cause the Finder to reposition
>the icon for the file if it's currently displayed in a icon view
>somewhere.  Is there any way to prevent that from happening?  It looks
>very strange to have icons jump all over the place just because of a
>rename.
>
>Thinking that it might have been the method with which I was renaming
>the file, I tried NSFileManager's moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:,
>rename(), and FSRenameUnicode() and all three exhibit the same
>problem.

Many apps exibit this problem and it has driven me and others nuts for
years.  Do file a(nother) bug.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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