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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T15:24:46+00:00 2026-05-13T15:24:46+00:00

I couldn’t find a convenient way to create an alias, so I went with

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I couldn’t find a convenient way to create an alias, so I went with a symlink. I’m worried that that might not be good enough. Maybe the icon doesn’t show on some versions of OS X or something like that.

[[NSFileManager defaultManager] createSymbolicLinkAtPath:aliasPath withDestinationPath:destPath error:nil];

Is this sort of thing the best I can do?
http://www.danandcheryl.com/2009/08/how-create-alias-programmatically

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    2026-05-13T15:24:47+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 3:24 pm

    To create an alias, take a look at NDAlias, at http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NDAlias

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