Aliases in OS X are analogous to the Windows shortcuts, in which you create a small pointer file that references another location or file on disk, so you can quickly access that resource without continuously having to reveal it first. In a sense aliases allow a similar function as the OS X Dock or the Finder sidebar, except they can be placed anywhere on the file system. A benefit to this is that you can create a folder that contains aliases of all the common documents, remote folders, and other items you access, and then add this to your Dock as a stack that you can quickly expand to access these resources. Being simply a folder of aliases makes the contents of this folder easy to manage.
There are several approaches you can take for creating aliases in OS X. The first is to right-click a file and choose Make Alias from the contextual menu, or you can do the same by pressing the Command-L hot key with the file selected. An alternative way is to start dragging the file and then hold the Option and Command keys at the same time. This will change the mouse cursor to a small curved arrow, which will create an alias of the file at the location where you drop it. This approach makes creating an alias in a separate location far less cumbersome.
Clicking this button in the information window for an alias will allow you to change the fi... [Read more]
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