Rule for content type, alias vs symbolic link

[Terry]

I was setting up a rule to ignore a symbolic link to folders. Never
able to get Automaton to recognize any symbolic links. Had to use the
alias content type instead.

The rule was content type | does not conform to |
symbolic link

I'm on Lion 10.7.2

Any hints to get symbolic links recognized?

[Automaton Support]

It's always a bit of a conundrum, especially with a general purpose tool like Autofiler, as to when it should look at the link, and when it should see through the link, to to final file. On the one hand links are mostly supposed to be invisible to applications. On the other hand there are times you want to know it is a link. In this case the problem is that a certain important apple API sees through the link, which admittedly makes the symbolic link content type a bit useless. The solution is not immediately obvious. If I change it to recognize links, then any rules that rely on seeing through links will be broken. At least normally, files have only one type. Suggestions are welcome at this point. I guess perhaps it should be able to handle being of two types, although that is not a quick fix since a lot of things assume files are one type.

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Chris

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