On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:54 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: > On 10-10-23 12:22 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> those are 'smart folders' which are encapsulated Spotlight searches. > For greater certainty here they are not a "duplication" of files that shrink > my hard drive's capacity ? Are they an example of symbolic links ?
No file is duplicated. It is a simple canned search; if you right-click on one it tells you that. It is no different than the window that appears when you 'Show All' from a spotlight search, or do a 'Find' from the finder. A Symbolic Link is different. A symbolic link (aka symlink) is the Unix version of an alias in OS X or shortcut in Windows...a pointer to another file somewhere in the file system. They act at a deeper level than an Alias does, in that an alias is a separate file that points to another file, whereas a symlink is actually an entry in the filesystem itself that points to another file. To all intents and purposes it's the file itself. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
