[Mac] Arduino IDE will not follow an alias to the actual .ino file

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Move the most recently used .ino file (the one that will be automatically 
opened on launch) out of the Arduino/project_name folder to some other location 
in the Mac's file structure, and replace it with an alias to the moved .ino 
file's location

2. Launch the IDE

What is the expected output?

The alias should be followed and the target .ino file opened

What do you see instead?

The alias file itself is opened by the IDE instead of it being followed to the 
target file

What version of the Arduino software are you using?

1.0

On what operating system?

OS X 10.6.8

Which Arduino board are you using?

N/A

Please provide any additional information below.

Moving the code for a finished project to some other location (say, to a folder 
containing all the other documentation associated with the project) is a very 
common thing to do, both to keep all the information for a project together and 
to keep the Arduino Sketch folder from becoming cluttered. Failure to properly 
handle aliases is very "un-Mac-like".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by isw@witzend.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 5:28

folpindo / arduino

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