Re: Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Rick Mann
> On Nov 28, 2016, at 18:14 , Sean McBride wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:06:41 -0800, Rick Mann said: > >> Back in the days before URLs, I could have an FSRef to a directory, and >> no matter where I moved that directory what I named it, the FSRef was >> still

Re: Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Sean McBride
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:06:41 -0800, Rick Mann said: >Back in the days before URLs, I could have an FSRef to a directory, and >no matter where I moved that directory what I named it, the FSRef was >still valid, and I could still read/write to it. > >Now that everything is URL based, if a thread

Re: Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Charles Srstka
> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Quincey Morris > wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2016, at 17:30 , Charles Srstka > wrote: >> >> This is currently broken in Swift, as of Swift 3, where all file reference >>

Re: Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Rick Mann
> On Nov 28, 2016, at 17:30 , Charles Srstka wrote: > >> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Rick Mann wrote: >> >> Back in the days before URLs, I could have an FSRef to a directory, and no >> matter where I moved that directory what I named it, the

Re: Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Quincey Morris
On Nov 28, 2016, at 17:30 , Charles Srstka wrote: > > This is currently broken in Swift, as of Swift 3, where all file reference > URLs will get silently and unceremoniously converted back to path-based ones > at the bridge. NSURL or URL or both?

Re: Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Charles Srstka
> On Nov 28, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > > Back in the days before URLs, I could have an FSRef to a directory, and no > matter where I moved that directory what I named it, the FSRef was still > valid, and I could still read/write to it. > > Now that everything

Preserving knowledge of renamed/moved directory?

2016-11-28 Thread Rick Mann
Back in the days before URLs, I could have an FSRef to a directory, and no matter where I moved that directory what I named it, the FSRef was still valid, and I could still read/write to it. Now that everything is URL based, if a thread changes the name of a directory, or moves it, another