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Re: Make an alias file to a Finder item
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Re: Make an alias file to a Finder item


  • Subject: Re: Make an alias file to a Finder item
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:52:26 -0700

On 4/3/05 11:56 PM, "Malcolm Fitzgerald" <email@hidden> wrote:

> How do we make use Applescript to make an alias file, the sort of file
> that results when we "make alias" in the Finder.

By telling the Finder to make an alias...

set destFolder to path to desktop -- or wherever
tell application "Finder"
    make new alias to file "HD:path:to:original.file" at destFolder
end tell

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