From: Nicholas Clark Date: 10:46 on 14 Aug 2006 Subject: finder making aliases So, I have a folder on a shared drive that I wish to have aliased on my desktop. How do I do this? Well, Finder offers me "make alias". But that wants to make the alias into the same directory as the directory. Where I don't have sufficient privileges. And if I try to drag the folder, Finder attempts to copy it. (with any modifier key, except "command" which initiates a move). So, hateful software, w.t.f. isn't there an option to do what I need? Drag me a nice alias to somewhere else. With the same name even. (other hate about the usual 3 step process - make alias, move, rename) I thought that this operating system was supposed to have an easy to use user interface. Hatefully it seems not. Either that or their all a bunch of trusting hippies over in Cupertino who have no need for security on their own server systems, so don't see the reason for anyone else to need it. Nicholas Clark
From: =?iso-8859-1?b?U+liYXN0aWVu?= Aperghis-Tramoni Date: 12:24 on 14 Aug 2006 Subject: Re: finder making aliases Quoting Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxx.xxx>: > So, I have a folder on a shared drive that I wish to have aliased on my > desktop. How do I do this? Well, Finder offers me "make alias". But that > wants to make the alias into the same directory as the directory. Where I > don't have sufficient privileges. And if I try to drag the folder, > Finder attempts to copy it. (with any modifier key, except "command" whic= h > initiates a move). IIRC, you can do by dragging with the option and command modifiers (at least, that was the way to do this in CLassic).
From: Martin Ebourne Date: 12:46 on 14 Aug 2006 Subject: Re: finder making aliases S=E9bastien Aperghis-Tramoni <maddingue@xxxx.xx> wrote: > Quoting Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxx.xxx>: >> So, I have a folder on a shared drive that I wish to have aliased on my >> desktop. How do I do this? Well, Finder offers me "make alias". But that > > IIRC, you can do by dragging with the option and command modifiers > (at least, that was the way to do this in CLassic). Does that work on a full moon? Or only if you cross your fingers =20 behind your back? <goes to check up definition of "user friendly" in a dictionary> Cheers, Martin.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 13:13 on 14 Aug 2006 Subject: Re: finder making aliases You don't have to explain. Just the word "finder" is more than enough to trigger the hate. Unfortunately the alternatives seem to be "let's do finder again, with more bells and whistles".
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