Re: Alias's original item
Re: Alias's original item
- Subject: Re: Alias's original item
- From: "Steven D. Majewski" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:12:44 -0400
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:25 PM, Wallace, William wrote:
Does anybody know of a way I can use applescript (either on its own or
via a
3rd party scriptable utility or osax) to examine an alias (which will
most
likely be pointing to a file on a network server) and get the path to
its
original item *WITHOUT* having to mount the remote volume upon which
the
original resides?
Well -- if you DeRez the alias, you can see the pathname of the
original file,
however, the docs for the Alias Manager say that the contents of the
alias record
after the size field, is private to the Alias Manager. ( I assume that
an 'alis' resource
is just the ondisk version of an alias record. ) Maybe if you dump
several you can
see if it's in a consistent location.
-- Steve Majewski
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