On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Sean McBride wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:44:06 -0500, Ken Thomases said:
> 
>> Yes.  Bookmark data is the modern replacement for alias records.  The
>> new bookmark APIs are backward compatible with aliases, including alias
>> files.  See the documentation for +[NSURL
>> bookmarkDataWithContentsOfURL:error:].  You'd follow that with -
>> URLByResolvingBookmarkData:options:relativeToURL:bookmarkDataIsStale:error:.
> 
> Yeah, that works, but is not easy.

Eh, seems easy enough to me.

> I find it quite strange that there is a URLByResolvingSymlinksInPath
> method, but no corresponding method to change a URL to an alias file
> into a URL to the target file.

Create a single method in a category on NSURL, if you like.

Cheers,
Ken

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