Re: Leopard Gripe: Aliases

Ymir <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I'd switch to using symlinks but there's no way to create them directly
in the Finder, and I don't normally keep a shell open.

Any ideas what's going on here?

Just checked here, mine are variable - some at 296K, another at 52K and
some at 4K still. The only thing I can see that's different is the icon,
the plain folder icons are still 4K, the ones with the new Leopard icons
are the biggest at 296K.

All of the ones I created were of folders. I just tried it on a few
documents and got 40kb for an excel file and 4 kb for a BBEdit file.

Yes, it was folder aliases I checked here. Application aliases are all
around 40-60K.

Since all the folders I created aliases of had no custom folder icons,
I'm a bit perplexed regarding why leopard requires they have such large
sizes. The document aliases lack the preview image of the originals and
appear with the generic document icon appropriate to the application. I
suppose it's possible that Excel has a more spacious icon than BBEdit
(Microsoft bloat).

Don't know, the ones I checked were all 4K for a plain folder icon.

Why, though, would any sane programmer store a copy of the *default*
folder icon with every alias to a folder? Shouldn't the default icon be
stored *once* somewhere in the bowels of the Finder or Aqua? I realise
that hard drives today are bigger than they were back in the days of the
32 x 32 pixel 8-bit colour icons used by Classic, but .5MB of overhead
per item still seems rather excessive.

Well, a couple of hundred 'K' anyway :-).

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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