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After one week with my brand new MacBook Pro all the installation (not all done) went smoothly, very very. I didn’t expect that software installation take so less time. The MacBook must have a very small REGISTRY, (joking).

I started customising my MacBook and the first hurdle came along. How can I create shortcuts and move them around the system?

Yes, I googled it out and the shortcuts are the alias on Mac. Nice. I tried to rename it but this won’t work.

I figured it out how to rename alias and here we go:

Task: Create an Alias of one of your application, rename it and move it to your Desktop.

Open Finder and go to Applications ==> right click on one of your programs like TweetDeck and choose Make Alias. A new alias/shortcut has been created.

In Finder move the new alias to the Desktop using drag and drop.

In Finder go to Applications ==> Utilities and click on Terminal. A console opens and starts in your Home directory.

Change the directory with the command cd Desktop and rename the alias with this command mv “TweetDeck alias” “TweetDeck”.

On your Desktop the new TweetDeck alias appears.

BigMac:~ tb$ pwd

/Users/tb

BigMac:~ tb$ cd Desktop

BigMac:Desktop tb$ mv "TweetDeck alias" "TweetDeck"

BigMac:Desktop tb$ ls -la

total 160

drwx------@  5 tb  staff    170 16 May 08:05 .

drwxr-xr-x+ 18 tb  staff    612 16 May 07:32 ..

-rw-------@  1 tb  staff   6148 16 May 08:04 .DS_Store

-rw-r--r--   1 tb  staff      0 10 May 18:03 .localized

-rw-r--r--@  1 tb  admin  33592 16 May 08:00 TweetDeck