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A former ghost writer for some of Apple's most notable instructors, Cone founded Macinstruct in , a site with OS X tutorials that boasts hundreds of thousands of unique visitors per month.

You can email him at: The place to learn about your Mac. Tips and tutorials for novices and experts. Last updated: Here's how to make an alias shortcut in Mac OS X: Open the Finder, and then navigate to the folder you want to create an alias of.

Select the folder by clicking on it once. You'll know the folder is selected when it's highlighted, as shown below. From the File menu, select Make Alias , as shown below.

Now whenever you double click on the Alias, it will open the original file or folder which it is linking to. If at any time you wish to delete the Alias, simply move it to Trash and it will be removed. This will not delete the original file or folder, but will rather remove the shortcut you had created.

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