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A caution on network-based aliases and the sidebar
Authored by: robg on Thu, Nov 8 2007 at 7:54PM PST

I guess my expectation is that an object in the sidebar is still in the Finder, and as such, it should follow the rules of the Finder. Aliases in the Finder are not dereferenced, yet that very same folder is dereferenced when placed in the sidebar.

Very weird.

-rob.