Alias' on OS X

[J. Landman Gay]

Dennis Brown wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

Are you on a Mac? The last time I checked (admittedly a while ago) the 
engine doesn't like Mac-style aliases very much, but does fine with 
Unix-style symlinks. I have a contextual menu I use to create real 
symlinks, or you can do it in Terminal.

If you are on Windows then it should work as-is.

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