Symbolic links are advanced aliases (shortcuts) that work across macOS, acting like signposts to your original files allowing you to do things like store large files on an external drive without ...

When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

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 ...

Symbolic links are similar to aliases, in the sense that they are shortcuts that link to a specific file or folder. But symbolic links are often more useful than aliases: For example, if you put an ...

Symbolic links and utilities that delete files Yesterday (Tuesdsay) we covered a report by a reader who described "unexpected" behavior when using a deletion utility to delete a symbolic link -- the ...

I had to emergency upgrade to Catalina yesterday to diagnose a problem reported by one of my users and have discovered that the filesystem changes have completely wrecked my workflow, simply because I ...