Re: copy/move alias

On 2/21/07 19:49, "Dave Pooser" <email@hidden> wrote:

10.3.9 clients w/ARD2.2  10.4.8 admin w/ard2.2

I am trying to move a file named "CAL alias" from a folder named

"AlaskaAssessments" in the Applications folder to the same file name in a

folder named "Big Ten" in the Shared folder a couple hundred times.

I have tried the ARD "copy items" function to move an alias out to machines

to

no avail.  The item that is copied is not the file I selected.  Is moved as

CAL.app not as alias.  I am concluding that "copy items" won't work on an

alias but acts on what the alias is pointed at.

        Please advise.

        I have tried mv also

               mv  /Applications/AlaskaAssessment/"CAL alias"

/users/shared/"Big Ten"/"Cal alias"   gives me a failed message

               cp  /Applications/AlaskaAssessment/"CAL alias"

/users/shared/"Big Ten"/"Cal alias"

 result is file or directory does not exist.

Remember that pre-Tiger the mv and cp commands didn't handle multi-forked

files, and an alias is essentially purely a resource fork (though it has a

0-byte data fork as well). I don't have a Panther system in front of me, but

I would expect that the MvMac or CpMac commands from the 10.3.x Developer

Tools might work for you instead.

if you're moving an alias from machine a to machine b, it's going to break.

That's expected behavior.

If you want to make aliases on a remote machine, try looking into

AppleScript, specifically, "make alias file" within the Finder.