On Nov 4, 7:37 pm, Erik Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not possible by simply installing MacFUSE. But it would be > possible to create such a solution that uses MacFUSE. I have already
The original poster wanted a "virtual folder ... without mounting an additional file system". That's *not possible* with MacFUSE. Something will have to be mounted somewhere (at least one mount point) for MacFUSE to be involved. I'm talking about what the OP was saying, not what he might have been thinking. We often use terms such as "mount" and "file system" rather vaguely, but we don't have to--especially in a forum such as this. That said, for the example being discussed, you could have a single "compression file system" so that it will use one mount point, and will then make contents of any number of archives available as subfolders within that mount point. You could use one of many policies for making the subfolders appear and disappear. For example, double clicking on a .zip could cause a subfolder to appear. It could disappear after no activity (no files accessed within it) for some timeout period. It could also disappear if the original .zip was deleted. There could also be an option to make it disappear explicitly. Etc. > .rar, .zip, etc.. file systems. (Maybe this can be avoided with some > noping_diskarb option) On Leopard and above, you don't have the option of not "pinging". The 'noping_diskarb' and 'ping_diskarb' options are silently ignored beginning with the Leopard version of MacFUSE. Anyway, the Finder is a closed system. It's not extensible to fit the needs of third party file systems. It's not friendly towards anything except the built-in OS X file systems. In fact, several aspects of it are blatantly hardcoded. However, to end users, a "file system" is "what you see in the Finder." Therein lies the fundamental problem. Amit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
