Parsing com.apple.sidebar.plist alias data. Can Mac::Files help?

[Gavin Brock]

Hi,

I've written some code to handle relocating of user home folders, in  
particular, the rewriting of full paths in preference files. For the  
majority of applications, this all works sweetly with Foundation.pm  
and the usual NSDictionary calls.

However I am running into issues with the Finder sidebar. The  
"useritems" in the sidebar plist are based on "aliases" - with no  
POSIX file paths at all (like Dock has).

I gather this is all Carbon magic, and I have been wandering round  
the Macperl docs without much success. I'm guessing that Mac::Files  
might be the right area.

Does anyone know what calls I could use to parse and edit the alias  
data (which I currently have extracted into temp files)?

Regards,

Gavin