Yes that is what I am about to do for my network as well. Do you have
Windows machines on your network? I will do a little research and see
what I get, but your answer I am afraid will be correct. Thanks
On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:53 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
I think that the podcasts folder is a smart folder and it may not be
possible to have it update through an alias but doing a bit of
research
should clear this up or perhaps someone more familiar with the inner
workings of the Mac can provide us with info. Now, we need to make
an alias
to another folder. This actually works for me. I have aliases for
all my
networked computers on my desktop. When they open, I can copy things
to and
from them with no problems and the originals are updated when I copy
things
to them. They do leve behind a volume though I have to eject for
the alias
to remain. When I open a folder, it appears on my desktop and I
create an
alias of it and then eject it.
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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 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: shortcuts
Yup,I changed it to Notepad and moved it to the Desktop and it opened
Textedit. This tells us that it works properly and there is something
wrong with the ITunes/Music/Podcast folder when the same is attempted.
The reason why this interest me so much is because I look at this
folder often instead of going through I Tunes. What do you or anyone
else think?
On Dec 4, 2007, at 8:33 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
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.
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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
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...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.
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