Remove the Alias Arrow in MacOS 8.5
What was Apple thinking! I've been swamped by emails asking for the removal of this blatant Windows 95 icon. Doesn't Apple think the italic font is enough of an indicator (can be removed with this edit), or even the addition of the word "alias" (can be removed with this edit)!
Now, thanks to Guillaume Gete and Fabrice Truillot, you can finally remove the alias arrow.
 First, you'll need to download the replacement icon resource.
Open it in ResEdit and click once on the icns resource.
Copy it to the clipboard.
In the System Folder, open a copy of the System Resources file in ResEdit.
Select Paste from the Edit menu.
You'll get this annoying warning.
Select the Yes button.
Save you work and quit ResEdit. Replace the old System Resource file with the new one and restart the computer.
The next alias you make will not have the arrow!
Original Icon
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Replacement Icon
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Ok, but I wanna know more. What did we just do?
If you use clip2icns to look at the original alias badge, and compare it to the replacement, you'll notice the icon mask is missing.
In 32 bit icons, the mask represents the amount of transparency, so no mask makes the icon 100% transparent!
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