Aliases in cloned volume no longer work. Solution?

I had an external HD that got full, so I had to move the contents to a new bigger drive. The orig volume had a lot of aliases. I moved everything over to the new volume, which is essentially a clone of the orig, albeit w/ a new name. None of the aliases on the new HD worked any more. I got the dreaded dialog window saying it can't find the volume. I tried changing the name of the new volume to the same as the old volume. The aliases still don't work, but at least now the dialog that comes up gives me a "fix alias" button. That's better than nothing, but I have way too many aliases to "fix" them all manually. Plus now I have two volumes w/ the same name. What can I do? Is there some kind of script maybe, that can change the volume name of the path of all my aliases? Or some way of re-cloning the orig volume that lets the aliases acknowledge their new master?

Hi-
"Essentially" a clone and a clone are not the same. There are alot of things that don't get copied when you simply drag folders. Pathways to aliases are one of them.
Use SuperDuper! (the best IMHO) or Carbon Copy Cloner to get real bootable clones of your system and files.

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