Re: Apple Script to make an alias
Re: Apple Script to make an alias
- Subject: Re: Apple Script to make an alias
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:04:21 -0400
has: Symbolic links aren't aliases. Aliases still work when you move
the target...
Anyway, the source of the confusion is the AppleScript "alias" type,
which I have never understood, but which is totally different from
Finder aliases, which in AppleScript are called "alias files".
On 4/23/08, has <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2008, at 18:01, email@hidden wrote:
>
> > How would I make an alias to: /Volumes/<foldername> and place it on
> > the desktop?
>
>
> tell application "Finder"
> make new alias file at desktop to POSIX file "/Volumes/StudentShare"
> end tell
>
>
> ln -s /Volumes/StudentShare ~/Desktop
>
>
> HTH
>
> has
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