Chris,

In a message dated 4/29/98 8:46:28 PM, you wrote:

>I haven't touched the file manager or aliases because they frighten me ;)
>so I was wondering if anyone had some tips to start the whole process.
>


I have had pretty fair success with aliases.  I have some routines that I can
give and explain.  Perhaps we should do this on the side...unless it appears
to be a hot topic.  I say explain as I have had some really
frustrating/eyeopening fights with the finder and its ideas about how Macdom
should work.  There are some things that I just can't make happen on all Macs
which is not the kind of "feature"  I like in my programs.

>>Also, is it best to keep an alias of the folder(s) that I will be moving
things to and from?  There will be at least one source folder and possibly
many folders to move things into.  Pathnames would work but aren't what I
want to do at all.  Pathnames are bad :) 

This is the only route I would take.  Pathnames are a possibility, however
alias resolving can give you an extra boost as the search is handled by
resolvealias (That may not be exactly right) and it gives its best educated
guess as to the file/folder being pointed to.

George