Timeline for MacOS Sierra vs my installer DMG's icon
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 21:09 | vote | accept | elder elder | ||
| Oct 27, 2016 at 20:10 | answer | added | Gordon Davisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 18:29 | comment | added | elder elder |
@GordonDavisson Could you please post your suggestion as a response? Although every doc I saw mentioned "aliases" as the go-to for installer DMGs, I see that the finder calls both a symlink and an alias proper by the same name; maybe that's the reason. The fact that my alias was much bigger (~1MB) vs Skype's (merely 13 kB) and using a symlink gets me the same size...was an extra clue. There may be a way yo tell them apart I am not acquainted with. Thank you, everything works now as expected (on both OS flavors).
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 16:58 | comment | added | elder elder | @tubedogg: That what was on my mind as well, thank you for confirming. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 0:58 | comment | added | tubedogg | I don't know that there's anything dangerous about relaunching Finder (although it could cause lost data in certain cases possibly?) but I was speaking more of inconvenience or utter confusion as Finder windows disappear. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 22:29 | comment | added | elder elder | @GordonDavisson That's an interesting thing to try indeed. Will do, and follow-up with my findings. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 22:09 | comment | added | Gordon Davisson |
It looks like you're using a Finder alias to the Applications, rather than a unix-style symbolic link. Aliases store a lot of info about the original item on the computer it was created on, which sometimes confuses things when they're moved to another computer. Try creating a symlink instead, with something like ln -s /Applications /Volumes/QST-6.5-devel-setup/Applications -- that might be better-behaved.
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 21:42 | history | edited | elder elder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 21:22 | comment | added | elder elder | @tubedogg: I can think about quite a few situations where this would be at least confusing. If I'm missing something downright dangerous, it is because I'm far from a power-user on the Mac; I'm the "port this thing on Mac" guy, really. If you could provide a few reasons, I'd be grateful. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 21:09 | comment | added | tubedogg | Even if it's possible, relaunching Finder on the user's computer without explicit permission sounds like a Bad Idea™. | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 20:59 | history | edited | elder elder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 20:37 | history | asked | elder elder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |