Comment by jeffhuys
2 years ago
Why not just a directory with subdirectories by ID? No mdfind needed, no problems with just-created directories, no wait, etc
2 years ago
Why not just a directory with subdirectories by ID? No mdfind needed, no problems with just-created directories, no wait, etc
You mean something like having ~/well-known-stuff and under that having a 54f757919a5ede5961291bec27b15827 directory with the book scanning scripts and so on?
That could work fine, but generally the directories I've used this on are directories that I want to have somewhere else, and with a reasonable name. Usually the directories came first and various other things in fixed relative positions were using them, and then later I wanted to use them from elsewhere and added the ID.
I suppose ~/well-known/stuff/54f757919a5ede5961291bec27b15827 could by a symbolic link to the original.
The mdfind approach does have the advantage that if I reorganize things and move the directory it keeps working.
Beyond opaqueness, which could be overcome by simply prefixing the ID with something descriptive, I guess it helps avoid creating excessively long paths that might create problem onncertain filesystems, which is rarely a problem these days, but I have been bitten by it a half dozen times over the last few years. In a couple instances causing (recoverable) data loss.