burn folders and aliases

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burn folders and aliases

In Mac OS X 10.4 Help for Burning a CD or DVD , it says "When you burn the disc, the original files that the aliases point to are burned to the disc. In addition, if any folder in the burn folder contains aliases, the original files for those aliases are burned to the disc as well."

Unless I am misunderstanding what this says, it doesn't quite work like this on my MacPro. This is what happens ...

On my mac I have a folder (folder-A) that contains a few files plus an alias to another folder (folder-B). I drag folder-A into a new burn folder. An alias to folder-A is created within the burn folder. Burning the burn folder to a CD does not write the contents of folder-B. The alias itself is burned, but not the contents that it points to.

Anyone else?

MacPro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 31, 2006 7:22 PM

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YvesF

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Jan 14, 2007 3:11 PM in response to alphi65

Hello,

Try to option-drag folder A to the burn folder. That will really make a copy of folder-A in the burn folder, instead of creating an alias to it. Then, the burning process should write the original files instead of the aliases.

Hope this helps...

Yves

PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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alphi65 Author

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Nov 16, 2006 5:55 AM in response to alphi65

Is no one able to offer any advice on this?

MacPro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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alphi65 Author

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Nov 26, 2006 9:33 PM in response to alphi65

hmmm - so I'm getting no replies. Is this because ...

a) I'm asking a stupid question?
b) no one knows the answer?
c) no one can be bothered?
d) some other reason

Here's hoping that someone on this forum can help.

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alphi65 Author

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Dec 3, 2006 6:12 PM in response to alphi65

I'm amazed and very disappointed in the complete lack of response. I thought these fora were home to one of the most helpful communities on the internet. Maybe I was wrong.

Please could someone help me out here.

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Dec 3, 2006 6:51 PM in response to alphi65

alphi65,

Far as I can tell, you were looking for other people experiencing the same thing.
I would guess that the lack of replies indicates that your experience is unique
in this forum, at least among the ~69 people who have viewed your posts.

If I read your post correctly, you create a separate folder for burning rather
than inserting a blank disk and dragging the files into the empty burn image in
Finder. Is this correct?

-Wayne

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alphi65 Author

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Dec 3, 2006 7:14 PM in response to ParentalUnit

Hi Wayne - Thanks for replying 🙂

Yes I started off by creating a new burn folder. I then dragged a standard folder (folder-A) into it. This creates an alias of folder-A within the burn folder. Inside folder-A there is another alias pointing to another standard folder (folder-B).

Burning the burn folder to disc creates a disc with the files from folder-A, but not the files from folder-B.

From my understanding of the Apple Help file, the files from folder-B should have been written also.

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Dec 4, 2006 7:15 AM in response to alphi65

alphi65,

I don't burn that way, but my guess is that the burn folder you create and the
burn utility in Finder and Disk Utilty don't treat symlinks the same way.

I'd punt this question to Andy, Gary Kerbaugh or Bill Scott in the Unix forum,
where they discuss such imponderables as how many angels can dance on the
head of a kernel panic (made up) and why Terminal dismounts drives almost
immediately while the GUI takes next to forever to do so and refresh system
status (real topic).

-Wayne

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alphi65 Author

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Dec 4, 2006 2:30 PM in response to ParentalUnit

Thanks Wayne - the pondering of imponderables by anyone would be greatly appreciated.

My quote from Apple Help at the beginning of this topic "if any folder in the burn folder contains aliases, the original files for those aliases are burned to the disc as well" implies to me that the symlinks should be followed.

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Dec 5, 2006 9:20 AM in response to alphi65

alphi65,

I agree; I've just never encountered the problem you have. Could there be a
permissions conflict?

-Wayne

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alphi65 Author

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Dec 5, 2006 2:02 PM in response to ParentalUnit

No, there shouldn't be any permissions conflict.

I suspect the problem is because it is essentially an alias within an alias, and maybe original files are written for an alias one level down, not two. If there is such a limitation, there's no mention of it in Apple Help.

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alphi65 Author

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Jan 14, 2007 4:15 PM in response to YvesF

Hi Yves - thanks - yes I'm sure this would work, but what I'd been hoping was that original files would be written for an alias at more than one level down. It seems not. Maybe this limitation will be removed in Leopard.

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