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I also use stow on MacOS and have been pretty happy with it. > […]although macOS will regularly replace your symlinks with copies of the destination files I’m
by thehours 1y ago
I also use stow on MacOS and have been pretty happy with it.
> […]although macOS will regularly replace your symlinks with copies of the destination files
I’m curious about this claim from the article - to what extent is this true?
- marcyb5st 1y agoPersonally I never experienced it (to the best of my knowledge). Weird.
- portaltonowhere 1y agoI have never seen this behavior on macOS and doesn’t make sense. However, some applications will save files by creating a copy and overwriting. Maybe that’s what the author experienced?
- jsmeaton 1y agohttps://github.com/lra/mackup?tab=readme-ov-file#warning https://github.com/lra/mackup?tab=readme-ov-file#warning Perhaps referencing this behaviour where preference files can no longer be symlinks? > Mackup does not work correctly in macOS Sonoma and all later versions, since it does not support symlinked files for preferences.