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How to tell the difference between copies, clone files, and hard links

Summary by eclecticlight.co
APFS has several ways of creating copies or links to files that can be confused. These are: conventional copy, to create a completely separate file clone file, a separate file that has common data with the original symbolic link or symlink, that’s just a path pointing to the original hard link, that’s really exactly the same file in disguise Finder alias, a more complex bookmark pointing to the original. Symlinks and Finder aliases are easy to …
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eclecticlight.co broke the news in on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
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