attachments - pdf: very cool....

[Timothy J.Wood]

On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, at 12:27  PM, Paul M. Hudy wrote:
> 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.

   We are planning on extending this somehow in the future (exact 
details left unspecified on purpose here :) to make it easier to get 
links by default.


> 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.

   We try to do a good job at this by maintaining both an HFS alias 
(which can survive renaming/moving of the source file) and a file: URL 
(in case you remove the original file and replace it with another one 
in the same spot).

   To see this in action:

- Link a file into an OO3 file
- Save close the OO3 file
- Remove the other file from the filesystem, empty the trash
- Open the original OO3 file
- Try to activate the link
- You should get prompt that we couldn't find the original file with 
options to pick a new file and such.

-tim


>
> 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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