Path Finder

want to try this simple action to see if the file will attach.. find it in the Finder, and drag and drop it on your mail message. If it worked, you should see a Finder icon of the file appear in the mail message, where you dropped it. Then you can send your mail with the attachment! ...

Unfortunately I don't think so. An alias is an arbitrary description of how to get a file. It's different depending on the filesystem (HFS, UFS, AppleShare, etc.) and has to be resolved using the Alias Manager which unfortunately is still in Carbon. The alias data can be in a file (what we see as an alias in the Finder), an XML property (like Internet Config prefs), or an...

Take for example the UNIX programming methodology that assuming a file's path is constant and not variable. It's a very bad assumption in terms of human interface. I wonder how many decades will pass before this is corrected. ...

I also get a similar hang when I try to unmount a DMG image. This time, I had console open as well as terminal and I was able to kill the finder and the LaunchCFMG which unblocked the situation and I got the following in the console: Jul 15 14:39:26 localhost WindowServer: CGXDisableUpdate: Updates disabled by connection 0x3503 for over 1.000000 seconds DOCK:...

From my count there are at least two people who have posted in this thread that have experience working with an Apple OS for Intel based hardware, and at least four who regularly post to this site. The history of that OS (Rhapsody) was played out to a very sad conclusion. There was an honest effort by Apple to make it work (and it works great!), but in the end it didn't get...

Apple started down quite a different path after they dropped Rhapsody for Intel. But we have covered this path many times in other threads. ...

in a deep path to a folder far far away and even on a different drive using the same window. ...

The ONLY problem is if you move files from under COCOA applications because COCOA applications read and write to a file PATH instead of a file reference. ...

picture.jpg' with the right path to the picture. ...

what was in the "bill of materials" processed by the install package. Pipe the output through "more" as it is long... and use a wide screen as everything is full path names. ...