Symlink (Symbolic Link) showing up as Alias in finder

[Glumpfner]

Hi there,

so I am using Dropbox to keep a backup of my Documents and Pictures folder. I read several tutorials about creating symlinks and I downloaded SymbolicLinker 2.0v2.

The one problem I have is that Finder keeps telling me it's an Alias. How do I know that it's a real symlink and not just an alias?

 

[sammich]

Symlink = Alias.

Symlink > Alias, somehow an Alias is like a MB in size.

 

[Glumpfner]

Okay thanks, so just to make sure, to tell the difference:
An alias is about 1MB in size, while a Symlink is 4kb?
But they both will show up in finder as file kind = Alias?

 

[sammich]

Okay thanks, so just to make sure, to tell the difference:
An alias is about 1MB in size, while a Symlink is 4kb?
But they both will show up in finder as file kind = Alias?

Not totally sure why. Functionally there isn't any difference between the two. Just get rid of the bigger one, which is the Alias.