Alias Files
Alias Files
- Subject: Alias Files
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:37 -0500
My script links to various folders via alias files. I use alias files because they (usually) respond correctly to moving folders and name changing. Yesterday, I encountered an incorrectly linked folder. I will have to make a small change to my script to correct this, but, first, I need more information on how alias files work.
The incorrect link was caused by the following manual changes:
1. The 'original item' of an alias file is a folder which I will call "Original".
I wanted to move another folder, elsewhere on the same HD and also
named "Original", to the same location, so …
2. I renamed the 'original item' folder as "Original old".
3. I moved the folder "Original" to the same location as "Original old".
4. I moved the folder "Original old" into the folder "Original".
The alias file should now be pointing to the folder "Original old",
but it's not. It's pointing to the folder "Original".
I have confused the OS X (10.7.5) alias file coordinator.
Does Apple have any documentation that detail how alias files are coordinated?
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