How to make an alias in the dock and treat it as a stack

[cAPS lOCK]

10.6.3

When I make an alias on my desktop of a folder and then drag it to my dock it'll stick there but it will open like a folder. When i click it it will open Finder and then that alias. I want it to open like Stacks do, preferably in list mode with the flyout menus.

Why can't I do this? I had it in Leopard but can't get it to work in SL. I checked all my settings and can't find anywhere to create a stack from an alias. Or from anything for that matter.

 

[Mal]

Why aren't you just dragging the original folder to the Dock? That will always create a stack.

An alias /= a folder, so it's not going to work that way.

jW

 

[cAPS lOCK]

It's a folder off of a shared server so it needs to be an alias.

 

[MrCheeto]

Mal: Option+= will get you ≠

OP: Drag the original Folder to the Dock and it CREATES an alias on the Dock! Everything on the dock is an alias

 

[cAPS lOCK]

Mal: Option+= will get you ≠

OP: Drag the original Folder to the Dock and it CREATES an alias on the Dock! Everything on the dock is an alias

That worked! Thanks!

 

[Gregg2]

Why aren't you just dragging the original folder to the Dock? That will always create a stack.

Good answer!

 

[chriscrob]

I'm assuming that the alias thing is actually impossible? I'm using a text dock icons and I want a different icon for the dock link to documents.