attachments - pdf: very cool....

[Paul M. Hudy]

Thanks to David and Clifton.

Yes, that works as you suggest. I was expecting the "default" behavior to 
be switched -- defaults to alias creation with the non-default 
control-modifier to be a copy file function.

I guess I am not sure why I would ever use the copy function - but will 
ponder the possibilities. When using "copy", I guess the copy is stored 
inside the OO doc "bundle" - as you put it. I couldn't find the copy 
anywhere with a finder search.

I sure hope those internal OO file pointers are robust because I can 
foresee a nightmare if those go sideways and you lose/corrupt your "OO" 
version of the file - and have another version of the file of the same name 
but of different content. It would really confuse me - and all ready has. 
No way to recover, I guess, except the old backup, backup and backup.

Paul

--On Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:43 AM -0700 David Emme <demme at pobox.com> 
wrote:

> --- On 2004-12-28 1:22 PM (-0500), Paul M. Hudy wrote:
>
>> Well....there appears to be a bit troubling (read SHOW STOPPER!) on
>> the use of attachments inside Outliner Pro. Or at least very
>> different than what I expected, so perhaps someone can verify or
>> help me out:
>>
>> I create an OO doc. I drag/drop a file name from the finder into an
>> OO line - an XLS file, for example.
>>
>> If I make any changes inside the XLS document inside of excel, the
>> file or these changes are not updated in the link inside of OO. I
>> can open the file inside of XLS and the changes are there. If I open
>> the file via the link in OO, what comes up is not the changed file,
>> but the older version with the same name.
>
> As it turns out, OO3 makes a copy of any file you drag-and-drop onto
> an outline, just as you have experienced.
>
> Buried in the Help file (not in the manual that I could find) is:
>
>     Embedding files versus creating aliases
>     ... If you attach a folder, or hold the control key while dropping
>     a file, an alias to the file or folder will be created instead....
>
> This seems to work fine for me, and is probably what you want.
>
> HTH,
> -Dave
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