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The Get Info window can change moved files Desktop
I discovered a great thing with the Finder's Get Information (Command-I) window. If you select a group of files and query the info window, you'll have a "group info window." Now, go back to your files' window, move some (to another destination, folder, etc) but let the info window open.

As this window still presents the information for all the files you selected, try to modify an element (lock, open with, etc.). It works ! Even if you had embedded your files into the latest folder of your deeper hierarchy, the settings for that file will be changed.
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The Get Info window can change moved files
Authored by: dabeatles on Mar 16, '04 11:02:19PM

This is the similar behavior I've seen with iTunes. I have iTunes organize my library for me, and when I rename something, it changes the name of the file or folder on the fly. I was listening to a song the other day and renamed it from within iTunes. While the song was still playing, I found the file in the Finder, and sure enough, it had changed as well.

Is possible to do on Linux/UNIX, or is this an OS X-only kinda thing?



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The Get Info window can change moved files
Authored by: LC on Mar 17, '04 12:11:08AM

Yeah, Unix filesystems have inodes and when you get an open
handle on a file, you have access to it until you give up (close)
that handle (which decreases the link count). Also, moving
or renaming files or directories doesn't affect the inodes themselves,
nor does it affect open handles (by any process) to those items.
Darwin is a Unix variant and these filesystem types (UFS, HFS+)
support that normal kind of interface; Larry.



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The Get Info window can change moved files
Authored by: LC on Mar 17, '04 12:15:09AM

Oops, brain glitch, I shouldn't have said "decreases the link count"
(I was thinking of multiple hard links and removals from the filesystem,
when the link count of an inode decreases to zero then it goes back to
being free); Larry.



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