It's Symbolic!
I occasionally need to FTP into my home Mac in order to retrieve some file or another. The Mac is set up with two hard disks with certain default folders (like music and pictures) both residing on an external drive with aliases in my internal drive's home folder. However when I FTP in, these aliases don't work, which means I have to trawl through a whole load of folders to get to the appropriate folder on the external disk. This is pretty annoying
For a while I've been vaguely aware of symbolic links, and had always intended to look up the syntax for creating one, but with the usual million other things to do it was only recently that I noticed an app on VersionTracker that puts a symlink command into your contextual menu. Just like that, problem solved! Now when I FTP into my home folder instead of seeing a file called 'Movies alias', I see the actual directory. Update: I've recently read a few reports of people deleting a symbolic link, and not realising this will delete the original item as well. Be warned
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