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Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes

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From android <here@there.was>
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Subject Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes
Date Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:17:34 +0100
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In article <mb7g0u$4ft$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 2015-02-07 22:55:32 +0000, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> said:
> 
> > Two Macs, A and B, and an external drive, D, connected to B via USB and
> > shared over the network.
> > 
> > Alias files on B or D resolve correctly when accessed from B.  However
> > when B and/or D are mounted on A as shared volumes over the network,
> > and the same alias files are accessed from A, I get the message "...
> > Original can't be found.  Fix alias?".  And with some of them (but not
> > all), the "can't be found" message is preceded by a "Connection failed"
> > message.
> > 
> > Finally, if I make an alias on B or D from A, it resolves correctly on
> > both machines.
> > 
> > Is this a "feature" of OS X?  Any ideas what is causing it and how to
> > fix it?
> 
> I think we may have gone over this before... are you using Yosemite?
> 
> Yosemite treats alias' differently than previously.  I found that using 
> symbolic links works where the usual alias' didn't.
> 
> http://www.experchange.com/yosemite-alias-problems-and-workaround-t4397583

OSX is kill joy with aliases. One used to be able to shorten the path of 
a file a link. Now for no good reason what so ever it resolves it!
-- 
teleportation kills

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Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-07 17:55 -0500
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-07 23:03 +0000
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-02-08 06:07 -0500
    Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes android <here@there.was> - 2015-02-08 12:17 +0100
    Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 07:17 -0500
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 13:36 +0000
  Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 08:52 -0500
    Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 14:55 +0000
      Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 15:14 +0000
        Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 18:28 -0500
          Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-08 23:50 +0000
      Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-08 13:09 -0500

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