01 Oct 2014, 18:37
When I first started writing for the Mac, around 1987, it was the first time, for me, while working deep inside an OS, that familiarity had not bred contempt. Object Pascal, MacApp, and the still-unreleased Mac II and color QuickDraw were just miraculous! Ah those halcyon days of wonder <3
01 Oct 2014, 01:30
The amazing part of this, if I remember my MacOS history, is that Carbon was essentially obsolete by the end of the 20th century, when Jobs brought BSD & NextStep into Apple. But Apple still managed to support most of it nicely all the way through a CPU change, and a dozen years of OS improvements. (well, mostly they were improvements
) I suppose that once committed to supporting HFS, they were stuck with all the old FS<mumble> APIs. By no means am criticizing you for using the Carbon APIs. FinderPop has been my goto tool for ignoring the dock and finder for so long I can't remember when I bought you my first pint
In fact, in recognition of 2.5.7 and Yosemite, which rather looks like the no-color-pencils-in-the-box Mac UI of the 20th century, I just stepped over to paypal and hoisted you a beer. Thanks again, for the first utility I install in every fresh instance of OS X.28 Sep 2014, 21:19
turly wrote:So did you look at the symlinks that started to misbehave? Are they still valid symlinks?
I flubbed that remark, writing "In my case the symlinks "failed slowly". When I first started using Yosemite, I had a handful of symlinks in my Finderpop Items folder, and they all worked correctly in the first few days"
When what I meant was "In my case the aliases "failed slowly". When I first started using Yosemite, I had a handful of aliases in my Finderpop Items folder, and they all worked correctly in the first few days"
Epic fail, completely misleading, and I am fair ashamed
I corrected my original post. Regarding your question, I didn't think to poke at the failing aliases beyond confirming that "Show Original" still led to the folders they'd been aimed at.
26 Sep 2014, 23:39
Just wanted to confirm the broken alias behavior continues on Yosemite 14A361c and that symlinks work as expected, though aliases do not.
I am not convinced that the difference is simply between Yosemite-created (or at least newly-created) aliases and older ones.
In my case the aliases "failed slowly". When I first started using Yosemite, I had a handful of aliases in my Finderpop Items folder, and they all worked correctly in the first few days, that is they had |> symbols, and popped their subfolders correctly.
Then one day I noticed one was missing, and a day later, another, this morning only one remained with a |> and by afternoon it had disappeared. Perhaps a background update task, like (or even part of) mdworker is converting those aliases.
For those who want a quick fix and don't know the terminal well:
Assuming you want a symlink for /Applications/Utilities in Finderpop Items:
- Code:
cd ~/Library/FinderPop Items
# the simplest case, make a symlink in the current dir, with the same name as the source
ln -s /Applications/Utilities/
# make another symlink, giving it a different name than the original, adding a 'util' entry to finder pop.
ln -s /Applications/Utilities/ util
The man page for ln and link are a bit confusing. In unix parlance a link has a "source", the original file or folder being linked, and a "target", the new entry (link) being created. This never made sense to me. In my mind, you'd follow a link (the source) to the real file (the target), so I have to look up ln every time I use it :(
10 Jul 2009, 01:08
I hope this month of silence means you're busy getting your life and self back together. I'm rooting for you, sure that the bus took unfair advantage. A mirror! D**n that hurts, the Barcelona busses must have some evil heavy mirrors.
Here's a measure of my fondness for FinderPop, which replaced fruitmenu years ago (I never looked back): As a developer using the Snow Leopard betas, I found I was crippled without FinderPop, aimlessly wandering through Finder windows, entirely unable to work without my good right hand button man. I relegated Snow Leopard to a build-and-test-only machine, and thankfully returned to 2.2 and 10.5.
So I have a huge ulterior motive for wishing you well and just now sent along a few pints in appreciation. But no pressure mate, just want you recovering, resting on your laurels.
Be well,
Taryn
"...By accident or subconscious design, we destroyed the pattern of our lives, reduced our species to tiny pockets of survival and engendered a world whose very fabric responded to our thoughts....We all of us looked at the turmoil around and were afraid, and instead of going out to meet it and sniff it like good mammals, good primates, we got cold feet and fell back upon our cold blood; like lizards on a cloudy day, we wished ourselves back in the comfort of our holes; we wanted our finite horizons of predictable problems and predictable joys...."
--- The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway, 2008 ---
"Don't abstract a standard abstraction"
-- -E. Texley to TVW ~12/28/06