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Bookmarks, a type of Alias: their access and use

They’re Base-64 encoded data which is related to the Finder Alias. Here’s how to resolve them in an app, at the command line, and in code.

May 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: More than adventurous

The third successive macOS upgrade brings fundamental changes which could so easily have resulted in catastrophe. How did Apple pull it off?

October 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Alifix 1.1 should be faster with old Finder Aliases

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New version should address long delays in checking old Finder Alias files.

August 14, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

What shall we do with the drunken Alias? Try Alifix 1.0

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How can you check all your old Finder Aliases to see which are broken and, more importantly, which are in danger of breaking?

August 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine: past, present and future

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Coming up to its 12th birthday, Time Machine backups have changed a great deal, but still rely on a feature almost unique to HFS+. What is their future?

June 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Quantum computing and APFS: free and used space

Why measuring free and used disk space is not so simple in APFS, and which estimates you should trust.

April 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finder can’t total file sizes correctly: how hard links confuse

Hard links can’t be readily distinguished by macOS or the Finder, and can lead to strange anomalies, as they’re seen as additional files, not links.

February 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Refreshing Aliases isn’t so simple: a cautionary tale with Alifix

So resolving an Alias doesn’t always update data in the Alias file, even though it returns the correct path when possible. This is becoming a mess.

January 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Breaking the link

Links – hard links, symlinks, and Finder Aliases – are the most complex and confusing of simple concepts in computing. Do they get any better after research?

January 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to inspect the details of an Alias without changing them, and Precize 1.7

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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.

January 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

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