> On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Thomas Tempelmann <tempelm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:04 PM, James Bucanek <subscri...@gloaming.com > <mailto:subscri...@gloaming.com>> wrote: > That is, I can create a bookmark for a file, rename/move that file, and the > bookmark will still find it. > > A problem only comes up when the user moves or renames the file and then > creates a new file in the original place, and then you try to resolve the > bookmark. At that point, we should be able to choose whether to prefer the > item found by its ID or by its path. And if I understand Jim right, then this > isn't possible any more - the OS makes a choice for us, and we don't know > which (well, we can find out empirically).
Paths are always preferred over fileIDs during bookmark resolution. Resolving by fileID is a fallback when nothing is found at the path. > At least, for now, bookmark files still use the old Alias record format, and > I've specifically written my own code to decypher them in order to be able to > extract both the path and the ID so that I can find the file myself using the > way of my choice. In fact, it allows me to detect if there's a file at both > places, and I can alert the user to give him the choice. The last version of OSX which wrote Alias Manager alias records into files with CFURLWriteBookmarkDataToFile() or +[NSURL writeBookmarkData:toURL:options:error:] was OSX 10.9. In OSX 10.10 and later, those files have no resource fork (and thus no 'alis' resource). > But once Apple changes the format as well, I'm screwed, I guess. > > -- > Thomas Tempelmann, http://www.tempel.org/ <http://www.tempel.org/> > Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tempelorg > <https://twitter.com/tempelorg> > Read my programming blog: http://blog.tempel.org/ > <http://blog.tempel.org/>_______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Filesystem-dev mailing list (Filesystem-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/filesystem-dev/luther.j%40apple.com > > This email sent to luthe...@apple.com
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