You misunderstood the movie, I'm afraid. I'm in complete agreement with the fact that aliases can have different names than the original -- no debate there at all.

What has *never* been the case is that a change of an *alias' name* could affect the original! The entire point of aliases is that, while they point at the original object, they are, in fact, independent of it relative to where they're stored on disk and how they're named.

The movie clearly shows that renaming an alias -- in the sidebar, not in the Finder -- renames the original folder. That's a big no-no.

-rob.

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