finder making aliases

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: finder making aliases
Date: 10:46 on 14 Aug 2006
So, I have a folder on a shared drive that I wish to have aliased on my
desktop. How do I do this? Well, Finder offers me "make alias". But that
wants to make the alias into the same directory as the directory. Where I
don't have sufficient privileges. And if I try to drag the folder,
Finder attempts to copy it. (with any modifier key, except "command" which
initiates a move).

So, hateful software, w.t.f. isn't there an option to do what I need?
Drag me a nice alias to somewhere else. With the same name even.
(other hate about the usual 3 step process - make alias, move, rename)


I thought that this operating system was supposed to have an easy to use
user interface. Hatefully it seems not. Either that or their all a
bunch of trusting hippies over in Cupertino who have no need for security
on their own server systems, so don't see the reason for anyone else to
need it.

Nicholas Clark

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