{"id":10001,"date":"2014-10-24T14:06:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:46:09","slug":"alias-files-and-bookmark-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/alias-files-and-bookmark-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Alias Files and Bookmark Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2997\/fastscripts-2-6-8-fix-folder-aliases\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/2997\/fastscripts-2-6-8-fix-folder-aliases\">\n<p>The long and short of it is Apple has moved away from &ldquo;alias files&rdquo; in recent years, and now favors a format they call &ldquo;bookmarks.&rdquo; To users, the files behave the same way, and Apple continues to call them &ldquo;aliases&rdquo; e.g. in the Finder when it offers to make an alias to a file. However, the older system service for &ldquo;resolving an alias file&rdquo; does not work on bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The problem was compounded at some point, maybe as recently as OS X Yosemite, when Apple started aggressively converting old alias files into bookmarks. So even if you had an old, functional alias to a folder in your script tree, it may have recently stopped working in FastScripts because Apple converted it &#8230; helpfully &#8230; to a bookmark.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: The long and short of it is Apple has moved away from &ldquo;alias files&rdquo; in recent years, and now favors a format they call &ldquo;bookmarks.&rdquo; To users, the files behave the same way, and Apple continues to call them &ldquo;aliases&rdquo; e.g. in the Finder when it offers to make an alias to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-03T22:46:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"9c817a73-2f40-460e-8db3-0a82280c6148","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-03T22:46:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnIF6cy9ARg6NswqCKAxhSA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2786,30,903],"class_list":["post-10001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aliases","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10002,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions\/10002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}