For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

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 ...

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 ...

When Apple made the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, one of the under-the-hood consequences was that Mac aliases—tiny files that point to other files—lost some functionality. Or to put it more ...

A symlink or "symbolic link" is a Linux file that simply points at another file. If the referenced file is removed, the symlink will remain but not indicate there's a problem until you try to use it.

In Unix, a file that points to another file or directory. It is used to allow a variety of sources to point to a common destination. The Windows 2000 counterpart is the "virtual directory." When URLs ...

Just because we love symbolic links on Windows so much—thanks, Steam Mover—we’re going to show you a handy macOS app that lets you set up symbolic links on Apple’s operating system as well. The app is ...

A friend of mine and myself were messing around in linux installed in our laptops. He's got Ubuntu installed and I have FC2. He asked if why does linux have such ugly fonts and I told him that he can ...

I put my World of Warcraft on an external ExFat formatted drive. I have created a Symbolic Link to it at its original location on the C: drive, which happens to be NTFS. Is this safe? What if Windows ...

Technology blog Tested goes in depth to explain Windows symlinks (symbolic links that let you do all sorts of cool things like sync files and folders outside your Dropbox folder), detailing what they ...