[thehours]

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?

[portaltonowhere]

I 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]

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.

[marcyb5st]

Personally I never experienced it (to the best of my knowledge).

Weird.