And guess what? Aliases do work across volumes. So, providing that volume is mounted, an alias can point to a file on an external drive or drive mounted on a network volume. Cool.
Slau On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:10 AM, clarence griffin wrote: > oh, ok. so its just like a short cut in windows. cool. > thanks. > > GF > > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Slau wrote: > >> Yes, aliases can be moved and they'll still work. Not sure, however, if that >> applies across different volumes though. Won't have a chance to test that >> until later. >> >> Slau >> >> On Jul 9, 2010, at 10:12 AM, clarence griffin wrote: >> >>> if you move them, will they still open the files? >>> >>> GF >>> >>> >>> On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Slau wrote: >>> >>>> An alias is simply a small file that points to another file. Much like >>>> shortcuts to files on a Windows desktop, they can be used to point to >>>> other documents or applications. Opening an alias opens the file it points >>>> to elsewhere in the file system. >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> >>>> Slau >>>> >>>> On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:34 PM, joseph wrote: >>>> >>>>> hi list members, >>>>> >>>>> what is an alias in mack and what does it do? >>>>> >>>>> thanks for the info. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
