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Re: Persistant reference to file that is not a path?
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Re: Persistant reference to file that is not a path?


  • Subject: Re: Persistant reference to file that is not a path?
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:41:26 -0700

On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:

> Prior to Mac OS X 10.6 you can use "aliases", which have been around since before Mac OS X:
>
> 	<http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon/Reference/Alias_Manager/Reference/reference.html>

The Alias Manager is a bit awkward to use from Cocoa (you have to translate between FSRefs and paths) but I recall that there are a couple of Objective-C wrappers people have written over the years. It’d be worth spending a few minutes searching.

—Jens

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