When is an Alias created?

While helping a friend I found a folder full of aliases of jpgs. She thought they were the real images but in fact the real images were not on her hard drive. I know an alias is created when you drag a file to a CD to burn but these were in a folder on her hard drive. I did a searh on Alias here, but not an answer to the basic question, "under what circumstances might one end up unknowingly creating an alias by simple drag and drop". I doubt very much she did any dragging with an option or command key combination. Searching for the file names showed the originals were not on her computer. She often burns CD and often copies images from a compact flash card mounted via a CF card reader but I can't imagine she mounts a cd, copies original from the mounted CF card to the CD and then drags the alias to the hard drive... What other ways might somebody end up with a folder full of aliases and no originals on their HD ?

Most likely she thought she was copying the .jpg’s from another computer to a CD by dragging them without holding the option or command keys, which copied only the aliases and then copied that folder of aliases to the computer.
The only other ways I can think of would be by 1) dragging the files to the CD (making aliases), dragging the folder of aliases back to the computer, and the deleting the originals (unlikely)
or 2) making a new folder, making aliases of the files (command-L), dragging the aliases to the new folder, and deleting the originals (also unlikely).
With either of the last two it may be possible to recover them from Time Machine. For the first, and most likely, find the computer with the originals and copy the files (not aliases) to a CD and move them to the desired computer.
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