On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: > On Apr 15, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > >> Space savings definitely used to be one of the benefits. > > Perhaps you are confusing alias with symbolic link? They are > not the same thing even though the finder displays them using > the same icon. > > Marc
Nope. I'm thinking back to 1995 when an alias was about 2K. But I don't want to clog the list up with this. It just seems strange that an alias now has to be so large a set of data structures. 668KB? Even if we are in the days of TB hard drives, that just seems insane. I just made an alias to a 41 KB screengrab and the alias is 340 KB. Unreal. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
