Any idea what the Chinese is?

[Peter Franks]

Only just came up as an import option in a newer iMovie to the one I've always used, but never seen it offered before in other apps. Or (null) which I've now deleted anyway as it doesn't open, and what does Alias mean?

It's also got a 'Welcome to Snow Leopard' in that Chinese file as well, which you'd think would have been overwritten a good few OS updates ago? May have always been there, I've just never seen it come up before.

 

[chown33]

If you haven't deleted it, you could copy and paste the folder name into Google Translate:

Google Translate

Google's service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

translate.google.com

An "Alias" type means this:

Alias (Mac OS) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Peter Franks]

If you haven't deleted it, you could copy and paste the folder name into Google Translate:

Google Translate

Google's service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

translate.google.com

An "Alias" type means this:

Alias (Mac OS) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thanks...

User manual and information

but why not say that in English? And why Snow Leopard still

Alias still means nothing to me really, I don't know what its an alias for as it doesn't open

 

[chown33]

If the alias won't open, the only option I can think of is to Get Info on it and see where it originally pointed to.

Maybe someone created it in Snow Leopard times. Or it's left over from that time. That's just a guess, because we don't know the history of the system.

 

[Peter Franks]

If the alias won't open, the only option I can think of is to Get Info on it and see where it originally pointed to.

Maybe someone created it in Snow Leopard times. Or it's left over from that time. That's just a guess, because we don't know the history of the system.

Thanks, nothing on the Get Info, I moved it to Trash, and just says High Sierra, which is name of SSD.
MBP 2011 came with SL.

Thanks again

 

[Fishrrman]

The folder with the Asian characters in post 1 above is an alias.

Be aware that if you delete the alias, the original folder/file (which may still have Asian characters) will STILL BE THERE.

So what I would do is
- Click ONE time on the alias file
- Type "command-i" to bring up the get info box
- Look in get info to see where the original folder is located
- Go to where the original file/folder is
- Move the ORIGINAL to the trash
- Now, move the alias to the trash
- Empty the trash to get rid of BOTH of them.

 

[Peter Franks]

The folder with the Asian characters in post 1 above is an alias.

Be aware that if you delete the alias, the original folder/file (which may still have Asian characters) will STILL BE THERE.

So what I would do is
- Click ONE time on the alias file
- Type "command-i" to bring up the get info box
- Look in get info to see where the original folder is located
- Go to where the original file/folder is
- Move the ORIGINAL to the trash
- Now, move the alias to the trash
- Empty the trash to get rid of BOTH of them.

Nice one, thank you.
The 'null' alias at top wouldn't open at all, hence null I spose, but no idea what that ever was, so just got rid of that one