Aliases in cloned volume no longer work. Solution?

[Greggy]

Anybody suggest a way to copy or clone a volume that contains a lot of
aliases that point to files on that same volume, in such a way that the
aliases on the new volume will point to those same files on the new
volume? Or alternatively, suggest a way to retrain a lot of aliases to
switch their allegiance over to the new volume?

I had an external HD that got full, so I had to move the contents to a
new bigger drive. The orig volume had a lot of aliases. I moved
everything over to the new volume, which is essentially a clone of the
orig, albeit w/ a new name. None of the aliases on the new HD worked any
more. I got the dreaded dialog window saying it can't find the volume. I
tried changing the name of the new volume to the same as the old volume.
The aliases still don't work, but at least now the dialog that comes up
gives me a "fix alias" button. That's better than nothing, but I have
way too many aliases to "fix" them all manually. Plus now I have two
volumes w/ the same name.

Many TIA...

PowerPC G4
OS X 10.4.10
Firewire drives

[Van Bagnol]

In article <k218k.11179$uE5....@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>,
Greggy <we...@greggy.com> wrote:

I don't have a solution, but I share your woe. I too cloned my hard
drive (via SuperDuper) to a larger one and now use the new one as my
boot drive, and even some of my Dock icons (which had been aliases)
pointed to some randomly different file than the ones originally
intended.

For some reason, I suspect, the new OSX method of embedding alias
information, whatever it is, is at the root of it. I recall in MacOS 8
and MacOS 9 times that the Alias Manager was very robust in finding the
original file an alias pointed to.

Van
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[Gregory Weston]

In article <van-D11556.0...@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com>,
Van Bagnol <v...@crl.com.invalid> wrote:

What makes you think it's changed?

> I recall in MacOS 8
> and MacOS 9 times that the Alias Manager was very robust in finding the
> original file an alias pointed to.

The alias manager has never been robust about tracking files that were
moved among volumes. Within, yes. Among, uh-uh.

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