Shaun, this was what confused me before when trying to answer your
question. Do you have a single alias to point to your podcast folder
or several to point to each individual podcast within your podcast
folder?...
If you have many aliases which point to many podcasts, then regardless
of whether you delete or do anything to, your aliases, your original
items will remain in the original folder. Now, if you have just one
alias which points to your podcast folder, anything you change from
there will act on the original folder. I.E. if you remove a podcast
that you arrive at from opening your alias, then it will be removed
from your original folder.
Does this make sense?...
An alias points to a particular object, so if you create an alias
which points to a folder, it would tell that folder to open when you
click on the alias...
So you'd actually be opening the original folder in this case.
Now, if you've created many aliases which point to files within a
folder, they will do the same thing; I.E. open a podcast within your
podcast folder.
But in the case of any alias, whatever you do to it doesn't effect
what it points to. So, if you delete an alias, you simply remove the
pointer which previously pointed to the folder or file. The folder or
file is still there. The reason that my example above with the single
alias to the folder works, is because after you click on your alias
which points to your folder, what you get then, is the actual folder
opening, and you can see the actual files. So whatever you do to them
then, happens in the actual folder. what you're seeing in the folder
are not aliases and are the actual files...
I hope this helps!...
Have a wonderful day!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:10 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Still they don't update themselves. I delete a pod-cast on the
desktop it doesn't delete it from the original. My question is why?
To continue the file path podcast/macbreakweekly/episode. If this is
the alias I put on the desktop as a alias and I delete episode in
the alias I still have a copy of what was deleted in the original.
On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Jos wrote:
In your music/iTunes/iTunes Music folder there is a folder for
podcasts. If you create an alias for that folder and put it on
your desktop you can then simply click that alias and it will
automatically navigate to that folder and show you its contents in
Finder. Aliases are just pointers to quickly open a file, folder,
application, etc, without moving it from its current location.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On 3 Dec, 2007, at 10:00 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
I almost understand what you are saying, but in the instance of
the pod-cast folder in my Music folder you are saying just move
that folder to the new place on the system. In regards to the
alias I don't understand it's purpose. If I create a alias for
this folder on my Desktop what is it's purpose? If a new pod-cast
is added the alias knows nothing about it. In other words it's not
updated like the original.
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