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can I point my Pictures folder to a folder in an external hard drive?
I would like to save some space on my laptop and to do so I was thinking of moving my Pictures folder on an external hard drive. As OSX doesn't want me to mess around with the main folders in my home, ...
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Can the Finder be tricked into assigning symlinks and aliases different icons?
It seems to me that the Finder does not (on the surface) distinguish between aliases and symbolic links. (In particular, in the Get Info window for a symlink the Finder claims the symlink is an ...
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Getting Automator to work with aliases vs. symbolic links on SMB shares
I would like to get automator to mount a volume in a shared SMB server and get all subfolders symlinked within my Documents folder.
I thought I could do that easily by creating Finder's so called ...
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“readlink” gets the original path of a symlink; what's the equivalent for Mac aliases?
In the terminal, I can use readlink on a symlink and it prints the target path of the symlink. E.g.
ln -s original.txt symlink.txt
readlink symlink.txt # prints original.txt
How do I do this for ...
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How do I create a symbolic link to a directory with a space in it?
I was trying to create a symbolic link using the following command:
ln -s "~/Foo Bar/" Foo
... but it didn't work (i.e. when I go into finder and try double clicking it, it says that it's pointing ...
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How to make an alias (Cmd-L) using command line?
With Finder, Cmd-L is a short-cut to make an alias of a file/directory. How can I use the command line to do that?
I tried 'ln -s', but it generates the 'Symbolic Link', not 'Alias'.
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What's the difference between alias and link?
I see that the size of alias is 167.7kB, whereas symbolic link is just 4kB.
What's the difference between the two, or what's the purpose of them?
Which one is preferable? For the case that the ...
