Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.system > #69578

Re: Alias Strangeness on Shared Volumes

Show all headers | View raw

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
-- 
Q: How do you know when <NoBody@nowhere.com> is lying?  A: Ubiquitous 
<weberm@polaris.net> fingers are moving.
<NoBody@nowhere.com> reveals himself to be a sockpuppet of sickpuppy 
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=%3Cm3jcte%24pq1%241%40dont-email.me%3E 

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web