{"id":48337,"date":"2025-07-03T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48337"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:38:21","slug":"alifix-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/alifix-1-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Alifix 1.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/07\/03\/more-updates-for-tahoe-aliases-alifix-special-files-sparsity-file-types-utiutility-and-language-nalaprop\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/07\/03\/more-updates-for-tahoe-aliases-alifix-special-files-sparsity-file-types-utiutility-and-language-nalaprop\/\">\n<p>If you have old Finder aliases that need to be checked and repaired, Alifix will do that job with you. Use it to scan a folder containing those aliases, and it will warn you which can&rsquo;t be resolved any longer, and can rewrite those that need to be updated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;d forgotten about <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/taccy-signet-precize-alifix-utiutility-alisma\/\">this utility<\/a>, which just added support for macOS Tahoe, but it&rsquo;s a good tool to have in your belt, as aliases sometimes break when copying between volumes or restoring from backup.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2020\/05\/21\/bookmarks-a-type-of-alias-their-access-and-use\/\">more about aliases and bookmarks<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: If you have old Finder aliases that need to be checked and repaired, Alifix will do that job with you. Use it to scan a folder containing those aliases, and it will warn you which can&rsquo;t be resolved any longer, and can rewrite those that need to be updated. I&rsquo;d forgotten about this [&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":"2025-07-03T23:38:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"d40db28b-ed2e-472e-91b7-fdc9ff1932fc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-03T23:38:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1A2yi-0uRy6Rt_3J_xky_A","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":[2786,2789,30,32,2598,2742],"class_list":["post-48337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aliases","tag-alifix","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-macos-tahoe-26"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337","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=48337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48338,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337\/revisions\/48338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}