Greetings. On 30/09/2012, at 3:31 AM, Christopher Wolf wrote:
> Using the Finder or the Time Machine Starfield is the recommended method for > doing a faithful restore of everything from a Time Machine backup. Two further, slightly tangential but possibly relevant, bits of information: * I can't point to chapter and verse (the source was possibly a remark on this list), but my understanding is that ditto is expected to be in some sense equivalent to a Finder copy -- they might be different UIs on the same libraries -- so that everything the Finder copy can do, ditto can do, too, and possibly vice versa. * The alias resolution mechanism is not documented, deliberately, and is in part heuristic, so that it can deal with renames and moves of files. This makes it more robust than symlinks in certain circumstances, but less robust in others. Again, see the archives of this list for more details. The second point means that, without necessarily having an explanation for the alias breakage that Christopher was describing, I tend to be pessimistic about aliases surviving too much rough treatment. These remarks are necessarily vague, and do sound rather FUDdish, so I'm very willing to be corrected. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
