Comments on: Remove the Alias Arrow Badge From Icons in Mac OS X

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:09:05 +0000

Thanks, that was helpful.

Only retards will complain about this…

By: mike

mike — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:25:41 +0000

Nice. I love it for my custom docks and alias windows. Looks beautiful. No danger in screwing things up if you know what you’re doing. Thx for the tip.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:34:45 +0000

i see 99 downsides to this for every 1 upside.

By: NeilM

NeilM — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:24:09 +0000

Not a great idea. Sooner or later you’ll end up copying what you thought was a file/folder to an external drive or server, then when you come to use it find that you only have the alias.

There’s a reason that aliases have an distinct flag.

By: info alias

info alias — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:38:59 +0000

How about dragging the folder to the Dock and using it as it was intended? Aliases sprinkled on the Desktop is not usual practice for Mac users.

By: MacOS-help.de

MacOS-help.de — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:46:19 +0000

This did not work in Mac OS X 10.6, too. The reason is easy, you don’t have the permissions. You can try this:
1. open Terminal
2. type cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ -> press enter
3. type sudo mv AliasBadgeIcon.icns AliasBadgeIcon-no.icns -> press enter -> enter password
4. type killall Finder -> works now
or you activate the root – user
to undo this setting you need the Terminal again.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:45:17 +0000

This did not work for me in OSX 10.7