On 6/1/04 9:01 PM, Scott Haneda deftly typed out: >> That's essentially what creating an alias does, no? You can even make it >> invisible if you want to prevent users from seeing it. > > That was my question :-) Will Office follow a invisible alias? If this is > the case, then I can make a simple AppleScript that will move the MUD to > elsewhere and make the appropriate hidden alias.
It works with an invisible MUD folder. :-) When you posted your question, I thought I'd try the suggestion out. So I moved the MUD folder, placed an alias in its place and then used a tool I had handy at the time, Apple's venerable ResEdit, to make the alias invisible. Except that the alias didn't become invisible. So I deleted it, replaced it with the MUD folder and tried to make it invisible, but it remained visible as well. So then I tried to make it invisible using a .hidden file in the Documents folder. That didn't work either. Turns out you have to log out and back in (or at least you do in my experience). Perhaps if I'd used AppleScript to make the item invisible? Anyway, after installing something that required a log out/in, and after I'd launched Entourage and had been using it a while, I discovered that my MUD folder was invisible and Entourage handled that fine. I imagine it would be the same with a hidden alias. -Remo Del Bello -- "A shimmering purple cloud descended over America in 1975, and then, bang, disco happened. Who's to say that a similar mass madness couldn't make .NET the status quo?" - Andy Ihnatko -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
