Text file size 3kb, but alias is 2.4 mb. What's happening?

Susan,

that’s not unusual for aliases created through Finder. If you’re concerned about the amount of space that the Finder alias uses, one alternative would be to create a symbolic link alias instead via the command line in a Terminal window. For example, to create a symbolic link alias on your Desktop for a text file in the Documents folder, you could run the following command in Terminal:

ln -s ~/Documents/sample.txt ~/Desktop/"sample.txt alias"

The symbolic link alias only uses enough space to hold the name of the file being pointed to.

Same issue here, e.g.:

HTML file: 82K

Alias: 766K ⚠

Melophage wrote:

you could run the following command in Terminal:

ln -s ~/Documents/sample.txt ~/Desktop/"sample.txt alias"

Is there a simple app for making these aliases without terminal? (e.g. via right click in context menu)

Thanks!