Re: Bookmark alias files v. Finder alias files
Re: Bookmark alias files v. Finder alias files
- Subject: Re: Bookmark alias files v. Finder alias files
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:05:04 -0400
On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
>
>> Space savings definitely used to be one of the benefits.
>
> Perhaps you are confusing alias with symbolic link? They are
> not the same thing even though the finder displays them using
> the same icon.
>
> Marc
Nope. I'm thinking back to 1995 when an alias was about 2K.
But I don't want to clog the list up with this. It just seems strange that an alias now has to be so large a set of data structures.
668KB? Even if we are in the days of TB hard drives, that just seems insane.
I just made an alias to a 41 KB screengrab and the alias is 340 KB. Unreal.
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