David,
What kind of files are you thinking of? I can think of two kinds:
1) documents: there is no need to remember where these are stored,
because they are opened by double-clicking them or from within the
programme and if they move while they are open in the programme, you
just restore them the first next time they are saved by the programme;
2) components: if they are missing, simply show an error message
telling the user to re-install the software.
If a file is not either (1) or (2), then make it so by importing it.
You can store an external file as part of a document or you can turn a
file into a component and save it in a dedicated folder inside the
documents/pictures/movies/etc foldet.
Don't make things too complex. You might lose yourself completely in
this kind of stuff because you can never tell what a user is going to
do.
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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On 4 mei 2008, at 23:29, David Bovill wrote:
Strange question - not sure how to express it otherwise. It's a common
enough thing to need though. Your scripts want a reference to an
external
file, but the user may have moved it in the file system - so you
have to
relink the file / update your data....
Now this is what an alias / shortcut does - or at least certain
types of
alias / shortcut. So its possible I guess.
Now how can Rev scripts do this? My first thought is to create a
alias of
the files, put them into a folder somewhere and associate these
aliases with
the metadata. Your script knows where the alias is (its fixed) and
can at
least on Macs figure out (using AppleScript) where the file is....
should
work a lot of the time (not if file is copied) - no? How about on
Windows?
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