It’s all too easy to change the information in a Finder Alias when you’re inspecting it. Here’s how to avoid that, and a new version of Precize to help.
Category Archive: Technology
When is macOS like a city? Or an Impressionist sketch? Could it ever become free of noticeable bugs?
Diagram summarising how Finder Aliases work, including their resolution. And how to confuse QuickLook thumbnails.
From physicists to photographers developing their plates, Naturalist painters recorded the science and technology of their time.
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.
The Eclectic Light Company 