Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder?

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I use a lot of aliases in my file system. Many original documents are placed in global repositories and I access them by aliases grouped in "tag" folders. Therefore, when I need to delete such a document, I need to check multiple tag folders to remove the aliases, which pains.

Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder (or preferably, a particular folder)? Thanks in advance.
 
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ZhimingWang said:
I use a lot of aliases in my file system. Many original documents are placed in global repositories and I access them by aliases grouped in "tag" folders. Therefore, when I need to delete such a document, I need to check multiple tag folders to remove the aliases, which pains.

Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder (or preferably, a particular folder)? Thanks in advance.
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TinkerTool System can do this. It's not a freebie, but is very reasonably priced. I'm not aware offhand of anything else that can do this.

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