Sorry for resending as a new thread. I had wanted to reply to my original message on gmane, but gmane's search fails to locate the thread (?).
Anyway, I still don't understand the rationale for the current behavior. Does anyone know why org-mobile-push resolves the agenda files' names to symlink targets? Thanks, hjh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:42 AM Subject: org-mobile-push vs. symlinks I had a problem with mobile org sync, which I finally tracked down to the handling of symlinks in org-mobile-push. Setup: I want to have a different file name for my school org file depending on fall or spring semester, but I hoped to avoid changing org-agenda-files once a semester. So I symlinked semester-fall.org to ~/Documents/mobileorg/semester.org. It seems that org-mobile-push resolves the symlink to determine the filename to drop into the online share. So MobileOrg knows about semester-fall.org, but there is no file by that name in org-directory. So, when I sync captures back to the computer, org-mobile-pull opens a buffer for semester-fall.org, but it's empty because there is no file by that name under org-directory -- so, of course the parent node can't be found. My question: Is there a technical reason why org-mobile-push must use the symlink target's filename, instead of the filename that actually lives under org-directory? Other parts of the code assume the filename under org-directory. I can think of two possibilities: - One should not put symlinks into org-directory, or at least make sure the symlink's name is the same as the target. If this is an intentional limitation, it should be documented. - Or, the symlink resolution is not actually necessary and it causes problems. In that case, it's a bug that should be fixed. Which is it? :-) hjh -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
