Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:27:22PM -0800, Hugh McIntyre wrote:
>
>> But on the other hand, I'm fairly sure that it I type "mv Music
>> Music.old" on MacOS, the desktop does not track this and instead creates
>> a new Music directory next time I fire up iTunes. In fact, if using "mv
>> Music Music.backup", I've relied on this in the past.
So, I tried this on my mac.
plocher at wp668.local> mv Music MMusic
mv: rename Music to MMusic: Permission denied
in Finder, I get a popup that says
"Music" can't be modified or deleted because it is required by Mac OS X
The system protects itself such that its internal assumptions
(that there exists a directory called Music) aren't violated
by normal user actions. It doesn't /allow/ itself to be put into
an inconsistent state.
-John
