Symbolic links are a great way to organize your files, but they’re not perfect. Symlinks are pretty fragile, and it’s easy to end up with links that point to non-existent files. The find program can ...

Symbolic links and inadvertent file deletion The Finder in Mac OS X 10.3 contains a problem with respect to symbolic links which could lead to inadvertent data loss by users with administrative access ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

Ok, so a script we were using to auto-update our mail virus scan plugin with new definitions went and created a symbolic link in a directory to the directory it the symbolic link was in. Anyway, long ...

Aliases and Symbolic Links are simply not the same things in OS X. I just solved a problem I had in trying to duplicate OS 9 functionality. <BR>If we look at both using the Finder we see the standard ...