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Accessing Finder aliases in your own code: a walk through alisma’s source

Creating and resolving Finder aliases is straightforward in Swift: here’s how alisma does it.

March 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Accessing Finder aliases from the command line: alisma

Create a Finder alias from the command line, and resolve them to full paths – a new free command tool, with source.

March 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Aliases, links, clones, and Bookmarks

Do you know when it would be best to use a hard link? What’s the difference between a Finder alias and a symbolic link? And where to High Sierra’s new clones fit in?

March 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Enduring file references in macOS

First there were inodes, aliases, and links. Finder aliases already use the volfs file system, but Apple wants us to switch to its opaque Bookmarks

March 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

File system funnies in Sierra: folders that aren’t, and altered aliases

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Sierra brings undocumented weirdness to the Finder, with a folder that is, but it isn’t, and improved Finder aliases, which don’t work as well. Yet.

December 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

macOS Sierra and Dropbox: have the problems resolved yet?

There were 2 serious incompatibilities when Sierra launched: ScanSnap which is now fixed, and Dropbox. How’s Dropbox doing now, then?

December 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Aliases and links: understanding their differences

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Do you know the differences between an alias, hard link, and symbolic link? Each has its uses, and understanding them is important.

September 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: More on references

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Unravelling References attributes, and making backlinks easily.

January 13, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: The neat way to create aliases

Is there an easy way to create aliases in the Finder?

August 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

In the Dock: custom shortcuts

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Up to OS X Tiger, we could group collections of shortcuts to folders under a single item in the Dock. This went, then returned. Here is how to use it.

June 16, 2015 Macs

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