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The Karelia iMedia Browser, framework and application for browsing media on Mac OS X
http://www.karelia.com/imedia/
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Request for folder parser to resolve aliases #54

Open danwood opened 12 years ago

danwood commented 12 years ago

From a user request:

In Documents, I created a folder 'A" Inside folder 'A" I created a folder 'B"

I selected folder 'A' in Documents and moved the folder into i-Media. Folder 'A" which contains the folder 'B' now appear in i-Media.

To save hard drive space, I create an alias file for each file I wish to put into folder 'B' in Documents. After putting the alias files into folder 'B' in Documents, I open i-Media expecting to see the same files there in folder 'B'. They do not.

If I create a copy of the file and place it into Folder 'B' in Documents, this file appears in the 'B' folder in i-Media.

Hope this explains my problem.

mikeabdullah commented 12 years ago

This isn’t entirely feasible with sandboxing. If the alias happens to resolve to a location already inside your sandbox, then great. But if it doesn’t, the app/browser doesn’t have permission to access the destination. The same goes for symlinks.

So I guess it’s a question of whether it’s best to support this feature a little intermittently, depending on the sandbox, or to not support it at all.

(I have a radar filed asking for the ability to extend the sandbox by resolving alias files BTW)