On 20/06/2006, at 8:47 AM, Greg Colgan wrote:
Hello there,
I recently upgraded to Tiger and this morning attempted to prepare
a disk to
burn my wife¹s school report files. I selected the files on the
desktop and
dragged them into the window for the disk, but was surprised to see
that all
of the files had become alias files. I dragged them again and got
another
set of alias files. I can¹t remember what I did exactly next
though I did
remove the cd - but much to my surprise I have a pile of alias
files sitting
on the desktop, none of which links to any original files. I cannot
find the
original files anywhere. I reinserted the cd, but can¹t drag alias
files on
to it. Could it be that the files types have been changed to alias,
preventing me from opening them?
I now understand that creating alias files is actually a normal
part of a
new process of burning to disk......wish I knew that at the time!
Have I lost the originals?
Thanks for any advice....I fear my wife is NOT going to be impressed!
Greg
Hi Greg,
If you ejected the disk without burning it (which I think you did),
the Finder creates a burn folder with the items you copied to the
disc, and places that folder on your desktop. So that explains why
you have the alias files sitting on your desktop.
Press Command+F to start a search on the computer. Enter the name of
the alias. If the Finder locates more than one instance of that name,
then one would be the alias and the other the file you're trying to
find.
Cheers,
Ronni
Car'n The Pies
