Alias Tricks.Txt

Warning: I waffle on a bit in this message. This a brief account of my recent experiences with aliases. Hopefully it will be of use to others. A simple trick allowed me to do a backup-restore of my hard disk with only a few aliases ending up detached (some because I forgot to unlock them before starting, others because they ended up pointing across the new partitions). How do aliases work? -------------------- As far as I know, an alias encodes its destination in two ways. I won't go into too many details, since I have only educated guesses on precisely how it works, but experimentation can verify the following facts: