On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > Well, thinking back to 1995, it appeared that they were exactly that. > > What Is the payload full of now, icons and previews or what? > > Sent from my iPod
Um, yes, as has already been mentioned, aliases store the icons of their target files, and in Lion, icons can be pretty big. Try making a Finder alias of a generic document, a folder, or something else that has a 1024x1024 icon. The alias will be over a meg in size. Yes, that’s bigger than back in 1992. Unsurprisingly, a 1024x1024 32-bit color icon takes up more space than a 32x32 256-color icon. Progress marches on. The one thing that could probably be changed would be to have Finder aliases store only one copy of the icon instead of two. Still, however, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. This would have been a big deal back when a 128 MB hard drive was huge, but not so much today. At any rate, this discussion has drifted pretty far off topic and should probably be closed at this point. Charles _______________________________________________ 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
