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Aliases and Bookmarks are smarter than you think

Finder Aliases can update their path information when they are resolved. Also some differences between Aliases and Bookmarks.

January 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Inside Mojave’s Aliases and Bookmarks

Details of some of the information stored inside Bookmarks and Finder aliases, and a new version of Precize to show you that info.

January 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Copies, clones, links and aliases: summary in tables

How to make different types of copy/clone/link/alias in the Finder and command line, their properties and uses, summarised in two table.

January 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Links and aliases beyond local files: advanced file system techniques

If you thought the first article was lightweight fun, here’s more about links/aliases to folders, behaviour in apps, iCloud, and Bookmarks.

January 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Aliases, hard links, symlinks, and copies in Mojave’s APFS

Mojave has 5 different types of copy/clone/alias/link, some of which can appear to behave oddly. Here they are, fully explained.

January 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Obscured by clouds: how Sierra breaks copy/move

Its increasingly hard to know where your files are, when you let Sierra manage your storage using iCloud. This is not a neat illusion, but a confusing deception.

September 22, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Word smart cut and paste

How can I fix copy and paste in Word so that the pasted content assumes the style of adjacent text?

September 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

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