Section 7 - Alias Icons

An alias icon is a pointer to an item. You can make an alias of an item and put it anywhere in the Macintosh OS. When you want to open the item, double click on the alias instead of searching the hard drive for the item. Below is an image of an alias folder icon. The key to looking for alias items is to look for an arrow in the bottom left-hand corner. Creating and using aliases will be discussed in Lesson 7 -Customizing Mac OS X.