Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well from a security perspective, one person's unintentional alias might become a hacker's intentional alias in the unfortunate event of unauthorized computer access. For that reason it might prove helpful if Apple in one of its future releases would arrange for an alias cleaning tool which

Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-13 Thread Michael Busboom
Thank you, Colin, for responding. Actually, I have inadvertently hit this command more than once. Thanks again, Mike On 11,Sep,2010, at 7:30 PM, Colin M wrote: Hi Michael! The command to make aliases is [ command+l ] I do not know why you would be using that command unless you think it

Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-13 Thread Michael Busboom
Thank you very much for your response. I had just been hitting the Del, not Cmd-Del. Now, all I need to do is figure out how to intentionally create an Alias. I believe that although I have never used them, aliases could be quite powerful and improve office productivity. Again, thank you!

Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi. Sometimes, apparently only when I am in Finder, I'm accidentally entering a keyboard combination that is generating Aliases to other things in my Finder Window. So here are my questions: 1. What keyboard combination creates Aliases and does this keyboard combination create them, even if

Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-11 Thread Colin M
Hi Michael! The command to make aliases is [ command+l ] I do not know why you would be using that command unless you think it does something else! Or you are hitting it by mistake! Why you can not delete them I do not know, I thought you just sat on it and pressed delete! hth Colin Skype

Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah you should just be able to hit cmd del and put them int he trash. I still accidently creat those blasted shortcuts and don't realise it. lol! oops. On Sep 11, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Colin M wrote: Hi Michael! The command to make aliases is [ command+l ] I do not know why you would be using