Re: wishlist: a link to a removed attachment

Frederick Bambrough  wrote on 18 Mar:
> What happens if the file is moved a second time? Other OS' can use
> aliases but RISC OS doesn't have that.

For myself anyway, I'd find the feature so handy that I'd be happy 
enough without worrying about any possible future move.  For me, the 
first chore is far more common -- almost daily -- than the second.  
Anyway, a move, possibly years later, would depend on the user's 
memory that MPro is pointing to an established location, unless the 
MPro routine were a lot more complicated and kept records or whatever.

As for aliases (there are probably other names for them), I think a 
couple of RiscOS utilities *do* exist for this purpose -- e.g. !Links 
by Gavin Wraith.  I often just make an obeyfile to *filer_opendir the 
new location.

-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk
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