Timeline for Why are the alias so big in filesize in Mountain Lion?
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| Mar 16, 2019 at 9:23 | answer | added | Marc | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 11, 2014 at 12:46 | comment | added | cregox | Duplicate! Also, here's the next logical question: How to shorten its size? | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 15:55 | vote | accept | jackJoe | ||
| Jun 19, 2013 at 14:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/askdifferent/status/347353379032403970 | ||
| Jun 19, 2013 at 12:02 | answer | added | chymb | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 9:04 | comment | added | jackJoe | @memeLab unfortunately a symlink is not an alias (move the original and it doesn't resolve the link, and also you can't do a symlink of a file!), so that doesn't solve this problem. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 0:16 | comment | added | ptim | In answer to the second question: the service seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html can be used to create symlinks in Finder without opening terminal. | |
| Feb 11, 2013 at 9:57 | comment | added | jackJoe | @WayfaringStranger I don't think so, because the old alias (the ones made in Leopard) which I still have, behave the same way and their size is 10x smaller. I thought it would be the icon size? | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 20:33 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | Likely it's changes to the amount of Quick Look information stored within the alias file. | |
| Feb 10, 2013 at 17:59 | history | asked | jackJoe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |