As some of you may have noticed, a number of Unix tools, especially file and Web servers (such as FTP, NFS, Samba, and Apache), have trouble resolving the System 7 style alias files created by the Finder`s "Make Alias" command.
Many of these tools think these alias files are actually regular files with nothing inside them, which makes them useless in some situations. Just about all Unix tools, however, can resolve symbolic links.
Symbolic links are similar to aliases, except that they point back to the original file in a way that every Unix application can understand. Until now, however, creating a symbolic link usually involved a trip to the Terminal.
SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files.
SymbolicLinker`s goal is to decrease users` trips to the Terminal in order to use the "ln -s" command. SymbolicLinker is available in English, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, French, German, Italian, and Turkish.
Installation:
1. Open the folder titled "Library" at the root of your boot disk. Make sure there is a folder there named "Contextual Menu Items". If the folder doesn`t exist, then make one with exactly that name (without the quotes, of course). If you are not the system administrator, or you do not want the plugin to be available to all users on the system, then use the Library folder inside your home directory instead.
2. Copy the "SymbolicLinker.plugin" folder that came with this distribution into the Contextual Menu Items folder.
3. Relaunch the Finder. To do this, press and hold Command-Option-Escape until a "Force Quit Applications" window appears. Select the Finder in this list, and click on "Relaunch". You can close this window afterward. If you`re not comfortable with doing this, then you can instead log out and log back in again.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added Portuguese and Norwegian (Bokm??l and Nynorsk) localizations.
· Added a new icon for the service.
· Since a few users had never used the contextual menu before, the documentation now states how to activate a contextual menu.
