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A caution on network-based aliases and the sidebar

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Friday November 9, 2007. 01:30 AM
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Earlier today, while testing another 10.5 hint (not yet published), I ran into something that's quite disconcerting, and could potentially lead to some lost data, if not just a lot of confusion. In a nutshell, here's the problem, which I've verified in both 10.4 and 10.5: Say you've got Mac1 and Mac2, and you've connected to Mac2 from Mac1. There's a folder on Mac2 that you use regularly, so you make an alias to it in your Hot Stuff folder in Mac1's Documents folder. To make accessing it easier, you then do the obvious thing, and drag it into your sidebar. But you want to know that folder's on your remote Mac, so you control-click on it in the sidebar and choose the Rename option from the pop-up menu. You rename Projects to Projects - Mac2. When you do that, you've just renamed the actual Projects folder on Mac2 to Projects - Mac2!The entry in the sidebar is, basically, a direct connection to the remote folder, not a representation ...
Earlier today while testing another 10.5 hint (not published) into something that
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