Aha. But I had read somewhere that if the file isn't found, then it uses some internal file ID referenced in the alias to fetch the file; does it require that the alias is modifiable by you to even do that? Weird.
It would be lovely if aliases were implemented a little bit more like hard symbolic links and less like Windows shortcuts (even if they are at least better integrated) though. Some flag or metadata instead of information in the resource fork. Argh, my Linux is showing. And so is my poor writing skill.
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Date: 2006-12-13 02:02 am (UTC)It would be lovely if aliases were implemented a little bit more like hard symbolic links and less like Windows shortcuts (even if they are at least better integrated) though. Some flag or metadata instead of information in the resource fork. Argh, my Linux is showing. And so is my poor writing skill.