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Disadvantage of UNIX
Alas, this is one of the disadvantages of having UNIX under the hood. While it has all sorts of cool features that Mac OS did not have, it is a very old OS and has a lot silly things. Like pathnames. Under UNIX, all of your files and folders are accessed by pathnames; since NetInfo (and /etc/passwd and other login information databases) are of the UNIX heritage, Mac OS X must refer to the location of the home directory as a path. If it were able to use aliases, then this problem would not occur. Aliases store lots of information about the folder they point to (unlike paths) and allow you to rename the folder or move it to a different directory. Morever, aliases know about the concept of volumes, so if the folder is on a volume that is not mounted, you can be prompted to insert it (or, if it is on a disk image, it gets mounted automatically).
Disadvantage of UNIX
Hmmm, but pathnames are also some of Mac OS X's strengths too. In many apps, there are simply pointers to things like image files, or XML files and you can very easily make changes and customize things as you like. |
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