> On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:39 PM, Ken Thomases <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:08 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL does almost the same, has no special behaviour
>> with “/private”, and even can resolve an alias.
>> But: only when this alias is the final component of a path.
>> I.e. /path/aliasToFoo will be resolved to /path/foo; but
>> /path/aliasToFoo/someFile will not.
>
> Paths "through" alias files make no sense. Nothing else in the system will
> resolve an alias there, so nothing will ever produce such a path. If your
> code is producing such paths, you should fix it, because nothing else will be
> able to process them.
Oh, and it isn’t quite true that *nothing* else on the system will be able to
process paths through an alias; old-style HFS paths separated by the ‘:’
character do resolve through aliases if they go through the old-style Carbon
file manager. You can test this yourself by writing an AppleScript like this:
tell application "Finder"
get file “Macintosh HD:path:to:someAlias:someFile.txt"
end tell
Replace ‘Macintosh HD’ with your boot disk’s name, and the rest by the
appropriate filenames, and you should get a valid reference to the file.
Charles
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