Re: Programmatically create aliases to unmounted servers?
Re: Programmatically create aliases to unmounted servers?
- Subject: Re: Programmatically create aliases to unmounted servers?
- From: "Zajkowski, James" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:22:18 +0000
- Thread-topic: Programmatically create aliases to unmounted servers?
On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Zajkowski, James wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a way to construct an alias file (a bookmark file) with a specific but unmounted file server location. That is, I want to put an icon on user's desktops that says "Network Space" and have it resolve to afp://ser.ver.add.ress/mount/username.
>
> If I drag the above URL out of Mail and to the Finder, the Finder creates a .afploc file (like it would create a .webloc if I drag a web URL). That .afploc file has a very straightforward format. It's just a plist dictionary with a single key, "URL", with a string value which is the URL.
>
> You could create one of those. Would that be sufficient?
Well that does work, and it may have to be the interim solution. The advantage of a true alias is that file dialogs will mount the server when the alias is clicked on, but they don't won't see the afploc files as a navigable thing.
--Jim
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