I don't know why this should happen. Try this, take text edit, make an alias of it, place the alias on the desktop, rename it, open it, do you get text edit? If so, things are working as they should and it may be that the podcast folders are smart and will not work together or something like that. I have not tried doing an alias with a folder but it should work. We'll have to dig into this.
----- Original Message ----- From: "VaShaun Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:45 AM Subject: Re: shortcuts This makes sence but it doesn't work. Para and David please follow me because this is interesting. Following a mixture of both of your steps this is what I did, this is what I got and this is what peaks my interest. What I did is press command L on the pod-cast folder in the Finder. This created a alias that wanted me to rename it. I named it "I Listen". I copied this folder to the Desktop. I went into the I Listen folder and deleted a podcast. I went back to my original pod- cast folder and it was still there. Here is what is interesting. I renamed the alias as soon as it prompted me to do so to I listen. I copied that folder to the desktop but it changed back to Pod-cast not I Listen. I did not delete the copy of the first I Listen pod-cast folder and it was updated with the deleted pod-cast but the original wasn't touched. What am I missing here? On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Shaun, this was what confused me before when trying to answer your > question. Do you have a single alias to point to your podcast > folder or several to point to each individual podcast within your > podcast folder?... > > > If you have many aliases which point to many podcasts, then > regardless of whether you delete or do anything to, your aliases, > your original items will remain in the original folder. Now, if you > have just one alias which points to your podcast folder, anything > you change from there will act on the original folder. I.E. if you > remove a podcast that you arrive at from opening your alias, then it > will be removed from your original folder. > > Does this make sense?... > > An alias points to a particular object, so if you create an alias > which points to a folder, it would tell that folder to open when you > click on the alias... > > So you'd actually be opening the original folder in this case. > > Now, if you've created many aliases which point to files within a > folder, they will do the same thing; I.E. open a podcast within your > podcast folder. > > But in the case of any alias, whatever you do to it doesn't effect > what it points to. So, if you delete an alias, you simply remove > the pointer which previously pointed to the folder or file. The > folder or file is still there. The reason that my example above > with the single alias to the folder works, is because after you > click on your alias which points to your folder, what you get then, > is the actual folder opening, and you can see the actual files. So > whatever you do to them then, happens in the actual folder. what > you're seeing in the folder are not aliases and are the actual > files... > > I hope this helps!... > > Have a wonderful day!... > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > > On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:10 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote: > >> Still they don't update themselves. I delete a pod-cast on the >> desktop it doesn't delete it from the original. My question is why? >> To continue the file path podcast/macbreakweekly/episode. If this >> is the alias I put on the desktop as a alias and I delete episode >> in the alias I still have a copy of what was deleted in the original. >> On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Jos wrote: >> >>> >>> In your music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder there is a folder for >>> podcasts. If you create an alias for that folder and put it on >>> your desktop you can then simply click that alias and it will >>> automatically navigate to that folder and show you its contents in >>> Finder. Aliases are just pointers to quickly open a file, folder, >>> application, etc, without moving it from its current location. >>> Josh de Lioncourt >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> ...my other mail provider is an owl... >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3 Dec, 2007, at 10:00 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote: >>> >>>> I almost understand what you are saying, but in the instance of >>>> the pod-cast folder in my Music folder you are saying just move >>>> that folder to the new place on the system. In regards to the >>>> alias I don't understand it's purpose. If I create a alias for >>>> this folder on my Desktop what is it's purpose? If a new pod-cast >>>> is added the alias knows nothing about it. In other words it's >>>> not updated like the original. >>> >> >> > > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > >
