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So if you develop, using xcode, you will find that
it uses symbolic links in its project directories.
And, if you use Mobile Me, you will find that
the Apple Backup tool cannot backup symbolic
links to the Mobile Me cloud for your Xcode
development projects.

Your *only* way out is to cpio/tar/etc up
the code and "hide" the symbolic link in
the tarball/etc.

My question is: short of doing that kind of
thing, or having a script running in the
background that looks for symbolic links
in the tree(s) being backed up and converts
them to plain data (without symbolic links),
to appease Mobile me, is there a way to
simply disable symbolic link usage by xcode?

If there is another way out of the above,
let me know.

I am frustrated with Apple's not supporting
the 40-year-old symbolic-link technology of
Unix in their Unix-derviative systems like
the Mobile Me cloud in concert with Snow Leopard
and don't want to have to "program around Apple's
inadequacy."

Stuart