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Re: Out of Control Aliases?
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Re: Out of Control Aliases?


  • Subject: Re: Out of Control Aliases?
  • From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:05:16 -0400

Just made an alias to Adium.

The alias is 286,744 bytes.

Also tested making an alias to a 4KB file.

The alias is 95,129 bytes.

I never liked those things after they started being larger than the file they were pointing to.

On Oct 4, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:

> I actually prefer to use symbolic links whenever possible. I find them generally more reliable, and they're 4k. I just wish that Apple gave them a proper place in the UI.
>
> Rick Gordon
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> On 10/4/12 at 4:16 PM +1000, Shane Stanley wrote in a message entitled
> "Re: Out of Control Aliases?":
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>> On 04/10/2012, at 4:09 PM, Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> After deleting the icon there is no icon showing in any Finder view, so what is the purpose of this phantom icon?
>>
>> Who knows. The fact that using the sample bookmark code doesn't do it makes it look like a Finder bug.
>> --
>> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
>> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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References: 
 >Re: Out of Control Aliases? (From: Ron Hunsinger <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Out of Control Aliases? (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Out of Control Aliases? (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Out of Control Aliases? (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Out of Control Aliases? (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Out of Control Aliases? (From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>)

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