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Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes

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On 2015-02-08, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there is a utility to straighten all this out.  If not, 
>> I'll probably try to write an Applescript to find all aliases and 
>> re-point them to the current drive.
>
> That sounds like the correct solution to the problem since the aliases
> are still pointing to items on the other original volume(s). 
>
> I actually wrote exactly such a script a while back. Enjoy:
>
><http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/software/Resolve%20Aliases.zip>

In case you are interested, I ran the script and realized it didn't
report the number of aliases it found while searching. So I just updated
the script to show that, so you have a better indication of how long it
will take to process them. 

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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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