Forwarded for David Blache, who's having posting problems: > Hi! > Does anyone have a short codesample of how you make an alias-file? > I've got a filename$ and a volRefNum% and want to make that into an alias > and in another folder, > because the folder with my sourcefile is writeprotected. > Would be very happy!!! > /Richard > Please mail my direct adress: richard@... The MakeFileAlias function at Staz Software's example page for Files does what you want: http://www.stazsoftware.com/exfiles.html