I had two external hard disks: External and Backup. External had many aliases which pointed to other files on the same disk. Backup was used to backup External.
External failed, and I now use Backup, which I have since renamed to External. Unfortunately, all those aliases now point to /Volumes/Backup/…
and thus no longer work.
I don't want to have to fix them or recreate them one at a time.
Is there a way to fix all the aliases so that they point to /Volumes/External/…
instead of /Volumes/Backup/…
?
Best Answer
Here's my stab at solving this problem with Applescript. The following applescript will take selected aliases in the Finder and try and relink them to the new path replacing
Backup
withExternal
in the POSIX path.Hopefully it's straightforward. You could probably make it recursive to search for aliases in selected folders, but that's more work than I care to do -- and then there's the problem of dealing with aliases to folders. Things could get messy. ;-)
Hope it helps.