Talk:Alias (Mac OS)

Alias size
1-5K? I just made one and it is 44KB! (44,862 bytes). Perhaps newer versions of MacOS are storing more info in aliases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.164.115.163 (talk) 20:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Alias file vs Alias data
Alias is the data within an alias file, for example you can use alias data within programs without every creating an alias file, AppleScripts deals with alias data as references to files without there actually creating an alias file. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.10.94.19 (talk) 13:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Alias size is now huge
It used to be that aliases were small, but not any more. An alias in AppleWorks was 4KB. That is a small file. But when I create one in Pages, which has replaced AppleWorks, the alias is 303KB--that's larger than the 49KB file it is alias for! So delete the phrase "…a small file" because aliases aren't, any more. Thank you. Hambleton (talk) 20:47, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Information about Window shortcut is wrong
Actually, Windows resolves shortcut just like MacOSX does (and even more... accross filesystem and computers). See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363997(v=vs.85).aspx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.119.210.244 (talk) 19:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Information is completely out of date
I just compared the alias layout in this article to several aliases on my disk. The format in the article isn't even close to reality. Further, 50% of the references are bad--all references to Apple resources are no longer existent and redirect to a standard search page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.156.182 (talk) 14:31, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Objection to move page to Alias (macOS)?
Given that macOS is the new official name for the OS, are there any objections to move the page to Alias (macOS)? invenio t c 06:13, 24 October 2016 (UTC)


 * There's no such thing as "the" OS when talking about Mac aliases. There are two OSes for the Mac with alias support, the classic Mac OS and macOS.  Maybe it should be renamed to "Alias (Macintosh)" or "Alias (Mac)" or something such as that, but not "Alias (macOS)". Guy Harris (talk) 20:32, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * @Guy Harris But Classic Mac OS is out of the market and so old that I think we shouldn't consider it. I agree with @Invenio that we should move the page to Alias (macOS). Thatsme314 (talk) 13:49, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * But Classic Mac OS is out of the market and so old that I think we shouldn't consider it. And I think that's a recentism; there might be people interested in the history of aliases, which originated in the classic MacOS.  Again, we could go with Alias (Mac). Guy Harris (talk) 18:24, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * WP's own article on both OSs is "Mac operating systems", so maybe we should go with this. Seems generic enough to cover both. invenio t c 06:20, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

iOS - aliases don't work
Shouldn't a comment be made that in iOS/iPadOS these aliases don't work, given they're Finder aliases only? A recent issue is that even though a user may now store all their docs in "Documents" in iCloud Drive on their Mac, but then they attempt to open an alias that itself is also stored in iCloud Drive, but the alias will not find and open the original, and seemingly never will even under the latest upcoming iOS 14. Jimthing (talk) 22:01, 21 July 2020 (UTC)