Re: What the heck is this !? (reassigned alias)
Re: What the heck is this !? (reassigned alias)
- Subject: Re: What the heck is this !? (reassigned alias)
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:26:21 -0700
At 1:10 AM +0100 9/10/02, Mr Tea wrote:
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Or perhaps I'm just being paranoid ;-)
You *are* being paranoid, but that's not a bad thing.
The primary scenario for breaking aliases this way is to reinitialize your disk, but leave the name the same. Restore from backups and you've got a bunch of broken aliases. If they were relative from the system folder, or something else easily found, then they'll often "find themselves," otherwise they grab the file id if it exists.
Ric's solution would be one defense against this situation, as is changing the name of your disk drive, since that will invalidate all of the file ids in aliases (the file id depends on the disk being the same, by name and creation date).
Jon
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