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Resolve aliases in Motion Templates path when installing Motion Templates #60

Closed thermidorthelobster closed 1 year ago

thermidorthelobster commented 1 year ago

My "Motion Templates.localized" folder is an alias to an iCloud folder of the same name - this means I can automatically share my motion templates between machines without having to install individually, and it's always worked perfectly.

...except that unfortunately the BRAW Toolbox installer throws up an error saying the Motion Templates folder is not writeable. I presume this is because of the alias.

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latenitefilms commented 1 year ago

To be honest, I didn't even think about this possibility when building BRAW Toolbox.

I can't imagine it'll be a difficult thing to fix, so I'll try look into a proper solution in the first update.

In the meantime, you can manually copy the files from:

/Applications/BRAW Toolbox.app/Contents/Resources/Motion Templates

...to the alias equivalent of:

/Users/YOUR-USER-NAME/Movies/Motion Templates.localized/Effects.localized/BRAW Toolbox

latenitefilms commented 1 year ago

@thermidorthelobster - How did you create this alias? Did you literally just hold down OPTION+COMMAND and drag the iCloud folder to your Movies folder, or did you create a symbolic link/soft link using macOS Terminal (i.e. ln -s /path/to/original /path/to/link)?

I'm assuming it's actually a symlink rather than a Finder alias?

thermidorthelobster commented 1 year ago

It was a while ago but I’m fairly sure I used the command line in the exact way you describe. Get Info in Finder describes it as an Alias, but I can’t honestly say I recall the nuances of the differences of the various ways of linking now :)

I remember having some issues with getting it set up on one machine, but once it’s been working, it’s been working well. Never had any issues, apart from occasional wait times whilst files were retrieved from iCloud where they’d been purged.

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@thermidorthelobster https://github.com/thermidorthelobster - How did you create this alias? Did you literally just hold down OPTION+COMMAND and drag the iCloud folder to your Movies folder, or did you create a symbolic link/soft link using macOS Terminal (i.e. ln -s /path/to/original /path/to/link)?

I'm assuming it's actually a symlink rather than a Finder alias?

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latenitefilms commented 1 year ago

Legend, thanks! I'm going to assume it's a symlink then - as I can't seem to get Final Cut Pro to play nicely with a Finder Alias (which makes sense).

This will be fixed in v1.0.1. Thanks for reporting!