BluePhoneElite: Change SMS storage location?

[netdog]

I want to store my SMS messages from my phone on an external drive rather than on the internal drive on my Mac. Help!

 

[robbieduncan]

I assume it's writing to somewhere in ~/Library/Application Support? The bad news is that's probably hardcoded into the app. I can think of some fairly dirty ways to fix it by loading an input manager and overriding NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains to return a different path for this application, but that's probably a bit much.

If your external drive always mounts at the same point (normally /Volumes/<drive name>) then you could just create a symbolic link from the apps preferred place to the correct point on the external drive and it should just work.

 

[netdog]

I assume it's writing to somewhere in ~/Library/Application Support? The bad news is that's probably hardcoded into the app. I can think of some fairly dirty ways to fix it by loading an input manager and overriding NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains to return a different path for this application, but that's probably a bit much.

If your external drive always mounts at the same point (normally /Volumes/<drive name>) then you could just create a symbolic link from the apps preferred place to the correct point on the external drive and it should just work.

pardon my ignorance, but how do i create a symbolic link? thanks. sounds like it would work. i do know where it expects to find the files. would creating a symbolic link mean that the files that wind up on the external drive would also not be found on the internal?

 

[Counterfit]

A symbolic link is essentially another term for an alias.
To make an alias: select whatever you want to make the alias point to, then move the new file to were it needs to be and change the name to match.

 

[netdog]

Thanks, I'll try that. Sounds like a great solution. Cheers!

PS: I will post here in 24 hours if I am still confused LOL