Saving to Volumes Folder
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Folsom49er
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Saving to Volumes Folder
I'm interested in finding out why/how Amadeus Pro allows saving to the /Volumes folder. I had to use Command-Shift-G and type in /Volumes (mixed case) to get to the Volumes folder to remove several sound files I inadvertently saved there, but I was surprised OS X allowed that to happen in the first place. What magic does Amadeus Pro have that allows this?
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Saving to Volumes Folder
How did you do that? I just tried and the file saving dialog doesn'tI'm interested in finding out why/how Amadeus Pro allows saving to
the /Volumes folder.
show the /Volumes folder...
Now on the other hand, the /Volumes folder is a folder like any other
and, by default, it gives read/write privileges to every user. So in
principle every program can write in that folder, it's just that the
user interface is constructed so that this wouldn't happen... Regards,
Martin
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http://www.hairersoft.com/
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Folsom49er
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How did I do that? I was hoping you could tell me! 
I believe the sequence went something like this:
I pulled a file off of a CD for editing,
When I went to save a Cut to File excerpt, it brought up the CD which it couldn't write to, so I changed the destination to the Desktop.
I believe then I went to the finder and ejected the CD because someone needed it.
Then when I went back to save another Cut to File excerpt, it apparently had "Volumes" in there instead of Desktop, as I expected. It wasn't until I was saving the 4th excerpt that I realized it said the destination was Volumes.
I still have "Volumes" in my list of Recent Places, so I can promise you that this did happen. But I updated the software right after that, so it wasn't the current version that did this, and I now can't get it to offer Volumes as a destination, though I can pull it up again from Recent Places, not that I'm anxious to save more files in that "Limbo Land."
I believe the sequence went something like this:
I pulled a file off of a CD for editing,
When I went to save a Cut to File excerpt, it brought up the CD which it couldn't write to, so I changed the destination to the Desktop.
I believe then I went to the finder and ejected the CD because someone needed it.
Then when I went back to save another Cut to File excerpt, it apparently had "Volumes" in there instead of Desktop, as I expected. It wasn't until I was saving the 4th excerpt that I realized it said the destination was Volumes.
I still have "Volumes" in my list of Recent Places, so I can promise you that this did happen. But I updated the software right after that, so it wasn't the current version that did this, and I now can't get it to offer Volumes as a destination, though I can pull it up again from Recent Places, not that I'm anxious to save more files in that "Limbo Land."