Three different ways to link to files, and two for folders. Which should you use, and how well do they cope with changes in that volume?
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Symlinks are popular but prove fragile when folders get renamed or moved. Hard links don’t support directories and can’t cross volumes. The alias works best overall, but isn’t supported in Terminal.
Which should you use, and what are their strengths and drawbacks? Symbolic links, hard links, aliases and bookmarks explained – oh, and a mention of firmlinks too.
Tired of HFS+? Disenchanted by APFS? Why not copy or back up to a different file system? Here are crocodiles waiting to bite you.
You click on a link to get Apple software from the App Store, but it doesn’t work. Why not? What can you do to work around this?
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