Linked Questions

I see that the size of alias is 167.7kB, whereas symbolic link is just 4kB. What's the difference between the two, or what's the purpose of them? Which one is preferable? For the case that the link/...

┌── ln(1) link, ln -- make links │ ┌── Create a symbolic link. │ │ ┌── the optional path to the intended symlink │ │ │ if omitted, symlink is in ...

Using the following snippet it creates an invalid symlink. But according to other answers it should work fine. # make a temp dir and save path to var. # set dir (mktemp -d) # fish shell only! dir=$(...

This has been mentioned in this question here: What's the difference between alias and link? But I am not even sure what I am looking for. I wish to create a hard link of the type where if a ...

I had recently organised all the storage on my Mac and was finally able to back up my MAC and my iPhone. In order to create more space, I found an article online which told me how to move the back up ...

I have the following scenario: All of my files, documents etc. are saved on Copy.com. I have installed copy on my MacBooc Air all my files went to the following directory: /Users/username/Copy /...

I downloaded VSCode and tried to make link for code to use code command to open VSCode. I also appended this vscode path to PATH variable. I have downloaded VSCode in folder called Work. This Work ...

This question Is there a way to add all of the recipients of an email to a group/folder in contacts from Mail? seems to have an answer that would be useful for me, but I don't actually know how to use ...

System in OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan $ cd $HOME $ ls . > Dropbox > BTsync Code which creates unsuccessful symlink ln -s BTsync/ Dropbox/ Code which creates working symlink ln -s /Users/masi/...

I like to use macOS's alias feature to not have to make redundant files. These aliases work great with Chrome and TextEdit. When I open them with vim, however, I get a giant messy file (presumably the ...

I have just upgraded git. It's now a symlink to the Cellared most recent version. $ ls -l `which git` /usr/local/bin/git -> ../Cellar/git/2.14.1/bin/git However $git --version git version 2.11.0 (...

I have installed bash 4 with Homebrew and bash --version shows me the version 4. If I have following test script: #!/usr/local/bin/bash # test-version.sh echo $BASH_VERSION And I make it executable ...

I know that with Mavericks and iOS 7, iCloud syncs text shortcuts automatically across devices. Does iCloud also sync custom Application specific Shortcuts across Macs? Application specific ...

Picasa stores very large files in Application Support folder which consumes limited disk space in system disk. I wonder if I can use symbolic links in order to make Picasa use removable disk as ...

Having problem changing iphone backup location (following this tutorial https://www.iclarified.com/72786/how-to-change-your-iphone-backup-location-mac) cannot interpret the error - any help ...