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On Nov 8, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Mark Fowler wrote: > update.) Yes, this does mean that this is a PER IPOD not a PER > COMPUTER Things that need to be - or not be - "per-computer" are difficult for Apple. Another example: I've got a G4 desktop at home, and on the road I have an iBook. I want to keep my mail on whatever computer I'm using, and after mucking about with unison for a while I bought a 256 Mb flash disk. Since I'm a paranoid idiot, I created an encrypted disk image on it, and my ~/Library/Mail is a symbolic link to that encrypted disk image - so every time I want to read my mail on a computer, I insert the flash, double-click the volume after it mounts, double-click the disk image file to mount the encrypted volume, and launch Mail.app. So far, so good. It works rather nicely, except double-clicking a lot to get the Mail volume mounted is silly when you run an operating system that has "folder actions". For those of you who have managed to avoid OS X so far, the idea is that you can write a little script that gets run every time something happens to a folder (such as being opened, items being dropped in them, etc). So I wrote a folder action that mounted the image and launched Mail.app after I insert the flash disk. Happy as a clam that this actually worked, I copied the script to the iBook, only to discover that my iBook felt that "folder actions" were disabled for the flash disk. OS X has chronic Altzheimers when it comes to remembering wether folder actions are turned on or off for a removable disk. Crap. Apparently the idea that you move removable volumes around is a new one. I hear that the next iteration of OS X will have some new features to make your home directory less bound to a specific piece of hardware. I suspect that this will be limited to "your entire home directory", since my home directory will not likely fit on a flash disk any time soon. Bugger. -JohnThere's stuff above here
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