Re: Leopard Gripe: Aliases

In article <a0ee7db2-acc6-477c-ab24-62537b519db4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ric <publicmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 29, 6:02 pm, clau...@xxxxxxxxx (Claude V. Lucas) wrote:
In article <474ef82d$0$36397$742ec...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Claude V. Lucas <clau...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





In article <291120071723054421%...@xxxxxxxxx>,
Stan The Man <m...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <474ef22a$0$36340$742ec...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Claude V. Lucas
<clau...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <wyvern-611C92.10523229112...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Madwen <wyv...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <invalid-3D4468.06045629112007@shawnews>,
Ymir <inva...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I use aliases. A lot.

When I was running Tiger, an alias took up 4kb of space. On Leopard,
when I create a new alias, they take up 508kb of space, though old
aliases continue to work and remain 4kb.

Anyone have any idea *why* an alias should take up half a meg of space
on my drive? That's larger than many of the files which they are
referencing. Is there some mysterious new functionality built into
Leopard aliases which I have yet to discover which somehow warrants such
an increase?

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?

Not a clue. I can only hope it can be fixed. After unchecking the
"show icon preview" and "show preview column" settings, nothing changed.
But after a restart, my folder alias size went from 508 KB to 272.
Like you, I also use a lot of aliases. So it would be nice to have them
back to 4 KB like they were in Panther. And it would be nice to have
use of the preview column again too. Man... I never saw this one coming.

I wonder if what I'm seeing is related to this?

New Leopard installation.

I have an alias to my "Favorites" folder in the Dock.

Instead of showing a generic Folder icon as it did in Panther & Tiger
the icon for the lowest alphabetical item in the folder is presented...

Weird.

Also, before Leopard I could right click on that icon, see a list of
items in the folder, and launch the one I needed. Now I have to open
the folder with a left click and double click the choice.

Right click gives a option menu similar to other dock items.

Apologies for the hijack if this is a different issue.

Unfortunately that's not a bug. It's Apple's idea of a new feature. And
imho, it's close to being the worst idea they ever had.

If you don't like it, there are a couple of utilities (Quay etc) which
will give you back the old way.

Stan

Thanks, I'll look up "Stacks" and figure it out.

Quay did it.

Another $10, though...- Hide quoted text -

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how about this?
http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860
its' free, and it's *really* simple. some nice icons that look like
trays for other file icons to sit in. drop the icons into the
suitable folder (e.g. documents icon to doc folder) and as they've
been "touched" to look like they hail from the future, they're always
on top. this is a really neat hack and works great!

Ric

Too late for me. I already got Quay.

I'm on to a different issue, figuring out why qpopper won't take my password.

Thanks, though.
.

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