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  1. MacGizmo

    New "Alias" icon behavior in Big Sur?

    Forgive me if this is NOT new to Big Sur, but it is new to me. I'm curious if this was the case in Catalina or Mojave and I just didn't notice. The image below shows a standard alias of a folder that has a custom icon on the left - it's a generic folder icon with the little "alias arrow" in...
  2. M

    Apple ID and icloud Email Both Allow iCloud Sign In

    Hi, I have an Apple ID which is a Gmail address. I can sign into my iCloud using an iCloud email address also. These are not separate accounts as they take the same password and refer to the same storage plans etc.... Can somebody please explain this to me? Is it possible that the iCloud email...
  3. S

    Resolved How to remove alias badge in Catalina 10.15.4 and 10.15.5

    EDIT: I have confirmed as well as @haeskone that this does work on 10.15.5, I had trouble with the root user way as it did not allow me to save to file. I believe you still need to mount the drive as root. Good News everyone. I was able to figure out how to remove alias badges and will...
  4. K

    Can I remove an entire "alias" folder?

    There is a folder in Downloads labeled "calibre-2.16.0" In it is a folder labeled Applications, but with the little arrow that indicates it's an alias. It appears to duplicate the actual Applications tab in finder. Can I safely remove this? I have no clue where it came from.
  5. seitsme

    Converting-fixing alias shortcuts from OSX Lion to HSierra

    hello, A while ago i zipped some files on my macpro under OSX Lion and then some under OSX snow leopard. These files were inside folders together with some aliases that i use to find files in complex directory structures. Today i unzipped this archive on my macbook late 2009, under High...
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    • alias fixing problem shortcuts shortcuts showing unix executable unix executable files
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS High Sierra (10.13)
  6. Princess Cake

    Getting Alias to show icon?

    I like to keep my movies on an external drive and put aliases to them on my HDD but I can't seem to make the icons work anymore... Anytime I make an alias (to a movie anyway) it just shows up as a blank white icon… anybody know how to fix this?
  7. M

    Moving Downloads folder

    I'm running High Sierra on a classic Mac Pro, off a 256GB SSD and it's getting a little tight. A couple of HDDs in the Mac and external drives are used for working files and storage but even so, Downloads (I like to keep them in case I need to reinstall something) and Google Drive were taking up...
  8. Q

    Launch Apps from Dashboard [or] How to Turn an Alias into a Widget

    Hey everyone, It would be useful and quicker to me if I was able to launch certain apps like Firefox or Spotify (the actual apps) while in Dashboard view mode, but I can’t seem to find a widget that allows me to do that. The alternative I thought of was to create an alias of an app, but I...
  9. StoneyMountian64

    Help! MacBook Pro can't install downloads due to alias location?

    Hi there I'm David and I have got this new MacBook pro and I can't install steam because when I go to drag the Steam.dmg to the Applications folder it gives me a message like this (the alias "application" can't be opened because the original item can't be found) if you know what is wrong please...
  10. E

    macOS Improving this AppleScript to swap aliases with their original?

    Hey y’all, I wrote this AppleScript to swap alias files with their original (I have a huge sample library for Logic Pro X, and I’m often relocating individual files; LPX doesn’t do well with aliased samples, but I like keeping them organized!). on run {input, parameters} tell application...
  11. grahamperrin

    News coexisting in (not separated from) relevant sub-forums

    Spun off from http://forums.macrumors.com/posts/23197905 and giving consideration to feedback item http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1545618/ @WildCowboy and colleagues it would be nice if each sub-forum related news item could appear – could co-exist (through aliasing of some sort) – in the...
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