At 09:50 p -0500 11/11/2008, Aaron W. Hsu didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
>On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:10:25 -0800 >"Lee Hinde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a project now that requires me to go on-site one day a week. >> When I get back, I duplicate my current web folder and then copy over >> the files from my remote work. >> >> When I open the project file, it refers to my now out-of-date files >> rather than my now current files. > >I have to say I would consider this a bug in BBEdit; if BBEdit >professes to adhere to the "Mac" way of doing things, then this >shouldn't happen. > >>From my understanding of how Mac file "pointers" and the like should >work, standard behavior for a program when using these pointers is to >grab the file from its new location only if the old location does not >have a newly placed file. That is, referencing a file in /blah/x >should only go to /blah_me/y (to which an old /blah/x was moved) if >/blah/x does not exist. > >Someone feel free to correct my understanding of the issue. Thus, in >projects, I would expect BBEdit to follow the files if and only if >these files were not "overwritten" by newer files in their old >locations. Well, that is true. It sounds like Lee did it the correct way, which is: 1. Copy folder to elsewhere 2. Replace files in *original* folder (not the copy, regardless of its name) I don't know why this would fail on an OS level, nevermind BBEdit. It doesn't make sense. -W --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
