Darren, Thank you for the information. I have not seen Finder show files from within ~/Library/Containers for other applications, which lead me to hope that it could be controlled via BBEdit. Perhaps that is not the case.
Regards, David On Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 5:14:59 PM UTC-5 Darren Duncan wrote: > A partial answer to your question is that the MacOS does some weirdness > with > regards to "Containers", where the Finder or certain apps would fake > various > home folders like ~/Documents containing things that are actually in > ~/Library/Containers... and so on, though I've seen even the Finder > sometimes > shows the same folder as being empty or non-empty depending how I get to > it. I > encountered this due to strange behavior I observed when migrating from > one Mac > to another. > > As to your question about moving this BBEdit folder to the trash, well you > can, > but you would probably lose some BBEdit settings in the process, and the > folder > would then get recreated for fresh settings. > > I feel your best bet is to just take it that this folder is a standard > part of > how the MacOS works, leave it alone, and organize your own files around > it. For > example, if you used to organize your files within various folders > directly > under ~/Documents, then instead make a new "top level" folder like > ~/Documents/Foo and put your organization under there instead. Treat > ~/Documents as if it were your root home folder ~ where the MacOS > organizes it, > and have your own organizing scheme under the Foo, where you can expect > nothing > else would mess with it. > > -- Darren Duncan > > On 2024-01-18 11:36 a.m., Well, Therefore wrote: > > Using BBEdit's menu BBEdit > Folders > Document Backups opens > > ~Library/Containers/BBEdit/Data/Documents/BBEdit Backups. In Finder, > folder > > ~/Documents contains what appears to be a folder named "BBEdit", within > which is > > what appears to be another folder named "BBEdit Backups." > > > > I have two questions. First, can ~/Documents/BBEdit be removed, or at > least > > hidden. The reason I don't simply move it to the Trash leads to the > second > > question, which is... > > > > ... just what is this mysterious entity that looks like > ~/Documents/BBEdit? When > > I use ls -lA ~/Documents, no such item appears. A file entitled > .localized > > exists, but I do not believe this is related. Finder's Get Info on > > ~/Documents/BBEdit reports that it is a zero byte file and its location > is > > ~/Library/Containers/BBEdit/Data/Documents. > > I am very curious. It appears to be something akin to a hard link or > symbolic > > link, but not exactly. > > > > The User Guide cautions against messing with this mysterious entity > (humor > > intended.) > > > > I appreciate in advance anyone who can answer the first question and > shed some > > light on the second. > > > > David Brown > > Mac Studio M2 Ultra > > macOS 14.2.1 > > BBEdit 15.0 > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/349b4bf0-74b3-4a9f-9d45-016b2733f2f9n%40googlegroups.com.
