Aliases fail on upgrade to OS X El Captian

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 17:16

I upgraded my mac OS X yosemite to el captain. Now I am unable to use the aliases of the VMs on my desktop. I tried to erase them and create the aliases again by right clicking the vms and pressing "create alias on desktop", but to no avail. Mac would say, when i tried to use them, that i needed to set an application to open them. I selected virtualbox, but it said that it wouldn't open it. Now i have to open the vbox program to get at my VMs, but i really liked those desktop aliases. Any suggestions?

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 18:11

I suspect it has something to do with SIP. I don't normally use aliases but when I created one for a guest two things happen, the one you describe, and the icon isn't set when you chose VirtualBox. However, after choosing VirtualBox as the Application the alias does open the guest. It could be a VirtualBox issue with OSX 10.11. Hard to say.

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 18:45

Well I found the problem on mine anyway. Which version of OSX are you running? I'm running 10.11.2 and for some reason Spotlight indexing was disabled on my internal drive.

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 22:59

10.11.2

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:00

what exactly is SIP?

Post by **Perryg** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:07

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:14

@Perryg danke

@Mint lover do your aliases look generic or do they look like this?

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:17

I wonder why i forgot to mention that. Before I upgraded, they looked like that screenshot. Afterwards, they were generic. (a piece of paper with a fold in the top right hand side)

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:21

Ok, In the Mac terminal, run this command…

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sudo mdutil -E /

after a couple minutes if not sooner, the aliases should work again. You may have to delete any old ones but I'm not sure of that. I don't normally use them.

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:27

That might give me a terminal illness, but i'll try it! (: (: (:

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:28

boooo!

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:29

you may have to restart as well. the command just makes Spotlight re-index the drive.

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:34

you mean restart the whole computer, restart vbox, restart my user account, or what?

Post by **loukingjr** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:34

sorry, restart your mac.

Linux Mint lover · Post by **Linux Mint lover** » 23. Dec 2015, 23:37

I told you this things gonna give me a terminal illness!

OK, i'll try

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