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Apple Computing Products:
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Saving Simultaneously to Duplicate Files
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1803315" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>The challenge is that an alias is just a pointer to a file, not a copy of it. So if the file changes, as long as it's in the same place, the pointer will still point to it. But if that target disappears there is nothing in the alias about the file except where it is, not anything about what was IN that file. So no matter where the alias is, the data will never be there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1803315, member: 396914"] The challenge is that an alias is just a pointer to a file, not a copy of it. So if the file changes, as long as it's in the same place, the pointer will still point to it. But if that target disappears there is nothing in the alias about the file except where it is, not anything about what was IN that file. So no matter where the alias is, the data will never be there. [/QUOTE]
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