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Create self-updating symbolic links
Authored by: cynikal on Nov 10, '03 01:22:15PM

The reason you see multiple ones, is becuase by switching programs you end up getattr's of multiple items, like the parent folder of the folder you're selecting, and possibly other things like the desktop database (.DS_Store) of the parent folder as well.

You just need to isolate the one file you're interested in, by click on something else (like the background of the finder), then re-clicking the folder you're interested in. it should print less getattr's, maybe the same one duplicated twice (in my experience) but it should boil down to one particular.

Does anyone have more information about this, besides the man page? I notice in some of the property list config files (.plist's), there's a long alias strong that references a file/directory probably in a similar way (ableit it's encoded in a very long format). Is there a way to decode this to indicate which file/dir it's referencing, and also a way to re-encode a different file/folder reference?



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