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Details of Aliases

Making aliases is easy, but here are some details you should understand.

• An alias isn’t a duplicate of anything; it’s just a pointer to the real thing. If you double-click an alias of Quicken, you’ll open your original Quicken application, even if the original Quicken is stored in a completely different folder.

• If you delete an alias, you don’t delete the original—the original is still stored on your hard disk. So you can keep revising your filing system as your needs change. Don’t want that alias of Budget Charts cluttering up your Project Plans folder any more? Fine; throw it away. The original Budget Charts is still where you stored it.

• If you put an item into an alias of a folder, the item actually gets put into the original ...