Originally Posted By: tacit
Originally Posted By: Ira L
2. If I change the name of ABC.pdf to XYZ.pdf and keep the alias as "ABC.pdf alias", will it still point to the newly named XYZ.pdf?


Yes, if XYZ.pdf lives on a Mac-formatted local disk.

Maybe, if XYZ.pdf lives on a file server.

No, if XYZ.pdf lives on a Windows-formatted local disk.


Ahh, this is significant. In real life my original file ABC.pdf resides in Dropbox. So maybe the alias reference will survive, maybe it won't.

For my purposes the sensible thing would be to keep the name of the original document unchanged and only change the name of the alias.

Thanks again.

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