On Saturday 19 October 2002 03:17 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: > Also, Windows file names permit only one period (after which is the > extension), whereas Linux files can have an unlimited number of periods. > This means that when Windows has to handle a Linux file, it renames > it so that all the periods except the last are changed to underscores. > After that there is no way of telling whether an underscore was a > period or an underscore. Important information is thereby permanently > lost. > > So never use Windows to download Linux files, period!
I used a shared FAT32 drive to backup my home directory and all the files in my maildir folders were scrambled. I had to make a script to send a From line to a folder followed by the message and loop through all the files. Then Kmail would read it as a mbox file. I'm really glad it was recoverable. I've got 2 100GB drives (one in each PC) that are FAT32, leftovers from converting over to Linux. I'm working on moving files off to convert to ext3. So far, one is done. I gotta get gigabit ethernet cards. :)
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