Alias' on OS X

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto revolution at jaedworks.com
Wed Aug 17 01:28:57 EDT 2005


At 10:36 PM -0400 8/16/2005, Dennis Brown wrote:
>I have a very large list of large files (thousands) that I use as a 
>database in my program.  I also use a subset of them for faster 
>testing.  At first I was duplicating the subset in another folder, 
>but I thought it would be nice to just have an alias of the files I 
>wanted to use in that folder.  The problem is that my program is 
>happy with the file names except it sees them as empty.  Shouldn't 
>they provide the get File: URL command with the data from the 
>original file?


Does it work if you use the aliasReference of the alias?
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ revolution at jaedworks.com
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