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BetterRed · 04-06-2015, 06:16 PM

@odamizu - thanks for the update. Its a few years -- like maybe 10

-- since I played with aliases on Mac. My memory is that I had to create the alias file through a dialogue, not unlike Windows not often used New->Shortcut dialogue.

But we couldn't drop files on the alias - which was the objective, maybe the program was in a bundle or something, can't recall. I gave up on it, the owner was getting anxious, even after several years with his Mac he barely knew how to drive Finder

I found a Macxpert to help him.

I think we're in furious agreement that aliases on Mac, like shortcuts on Windows, are to be preferred over symlinks for accessing programs, and for the same reasons - they usually continue to work if the target is moved or renamed.

BR

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BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,832 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@odamizu - thanks for the update. Its a few years -- like maybe 10 -- since I played with aliases on Mac. My memory is that I had to create the alias file through a dialogue, not unlike Windows not often used New->Shortcut dialogue. But we couldn't drop files on the alias - which was the objective, maybe the program was in a bundle or something, can't recall. I gave up on it, the owner was getting anxious, even after several years with his Mac he barely knew how to drive Finder I found a Macxpert to help him. I think we're in furious agreement that aliases on Mac, like shortcuts on Windows, are to be preferred over symlinks for accessing programs, and for the same reasons - they usually continue to work if the target is moved or renamed. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 04-06-2015 at 06:20 PM.