Burning aliases - why?

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cjuliber

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I set up a burn folder in Tiger and dragged the files I wanted to burn into that folder. To my surprise, what went into the folder were aliases of the files!!! I didn't want to risk wasting my last remaining CD so I deleted the aliases and did a option-copy of the files instead to make sure the desired files were burned.

Does anyone know if the burn folder is actually smart enough to go look for the original files when burning or is alias burning an undocumented feature (ie. bug!!!)???

Thanks.
 
The burn folders are supposed to _only_ contain aliases. Your actual files will be burnt, of course, but if you burn a week later, you don't want to burn old copies of your files, you want the current files. That's how that feature is supposed to work. You create, say, a folder for a client of yours. You drag the files you're working on for him into a burnable folder and whenever he wants a copy of the files you're working on, you just burn that folder - and you get the actual, current files burnt.
 
Aliases are a whole lot smarter and useful than windows shortcuts. Using aliases in burn folders make sense for the reason fryke posted as well as the fact that you don't have to waste disk space duplicating files that need to be burned, which may not be that big of a problem with CD's but when you are burning DVDs and getting to about 7GB of stuff, that is a lot of duplication!
 
Thank you for your replies..... I agree it makes perfect sense to put aliases in the burn folder but it is certainly NOT intuitive.
 
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