Diagram summarising how Finder Aliases work, including their resolution. And how to confuse QuickLook thumbnails.
Category Archive: Macs
Finder Aliases can update their path information when they are resolved. Also some differences between Aliases and Bookmarks.
Do you use Finder Column views and make Aliases to folders? If one of those gets broken, then the Finder may hang on you.
Details of some of the information stored inside Bookmarks and Finder aliases, and a new version of Precize to show you that info.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 158, […]
How to make different types of copy/clone/link/alias in the Finder and command line, their properties and uses, summarised in two table.
If you thought the first article was lightweight fun, here’s more about links/aliases to folders, behaviour in apps, iCloud, and Bookmarks.
More bugs in Calculator and Activity Monitor when printing, dreadful lack of documentation of AppKit, TextKit, and CoreData. No wonder Apple is struggling to sell iPhones in China.
Mojave has 5 different types of copy/clone/alias/link, some of which can appear to behave oddly. Here they are, fully explained.
A table showing the main choices when using System Migration, and more detail on how the process works.
The Eclectic Light Company 