From 2a32b42b3613de8bb2e6e150a3f09ac202ded016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DrewSkelton <drew.skelton@ou.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:35:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat(macOS): add Finder alias path resolution

---
 src/cmd/add.rs       |  7 ++---
 src/main.rs          |  1 +
 src/path_resolver.rs | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/path_resolver.rs

diff --git a/src/cmd/add.rs b/src/cmd/add.rs
index 302ae0a..546051a 100644
--- a/src/cmd/add.rs
+++ b/src/cmd/add.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use anyhow::{Result, bail};
 
 use crate::cmd::{Add, Run};
 use crate::db::Database;
-use crate::{config, util};
+use crate::{config, path_resolver, util};
 
 impl Run for Add {
     fn run(&self) -> Result<()> {
@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ impl Run for Add {
         let mut db = Database::open()?;
 
         for path in &self.paths {
-            let path =
-                if config::resolve_symlinks() { util::canonicalize } else { util::resolve_path }(
-                    path,
-                )?;
+            let path = path_resolver::resolve(path, config::resolve_symlinks())?;
             let path = util::path_to_str(&path)?;
 
             // Ignore path if it contains unsupported characters, or if it's in the exclude
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index e432b12..11b5ecc 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ mod config;
 mod db;
 mod error;
 mod import;
+mod path_resolver;
 mod shell;
 mod util;
 
diff --git a/src/path_resolver.rs b/src/path_resolver.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a853387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/path_resolver.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::process::Command;
+
+use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+
+use crate::util;
+
+pub fn resolve(path: impl AsRef<Path>, resolve_symlinks: bool) -> Result<PathBuf> {
+    if resolve_symlinks {
+        return util::canonicalize(path);
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    {
+        return resolve_macos(path);
+    }
+
+    #[cfg(not(target_os = "macos"))]
+    {
+        util::resolve_path(path)
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+fn resolve_macos(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<PathBuf> {
+    let path = util::resolve_path(path)?;
+
+    if path.is_file() {
+        if let Some(resolved) = resolve_finder_alias(&path)? {
+            return Ok(resolved);
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(path)
+}
+
+#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+fn resolve_finder_alias(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<PathBuf>> {
+    let script = r#"
+on run argv
+    tell application "Finder"
+        set alias_path to POSIX file (item 1 of argv) as alias
+        return POSIX path of (original item of alias_path as alias)
+    end tell
+end run
+"#;
+
+    let output = Command::new("osascript")
+        .arg("-e")
+        .arg(script)
+        .arg(path)
+        .output()
+        .context("could not run osascript to resolve Finder alias")?;
+
+    if !output.status.success() {
+        return Ok(None);
+    }
+
+    let resolved = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).trim().to_string();
+    if resolved.is_empty() {
+        return Ok(None);
+    }
+
+    Ok(Some(util::resolve_path(resolved)?))
+}
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