Symbolic links are similar to aliases, in the sense that they are shortcuts that link to a specific file or folder. But symbolic links are often more useful than aliases: For example, if you put an ...

You wouldn't know it just by looking, but Mac OS X has two types of aliases. The first are the traditional aliases, which work the same way they do in Mac OS 9. The second type are called symbolic ...

I wasn't sure how to describe this problem, I've never come across it before. Twice now I've had a problem where, all of a sudden a lib file is missing. After that the system becomes unusable. For ...