Re: text files turning into executables after copying to PC Thumb drive

[James / Hans Kunz]

you must use the file extension..
windows relies on them much more than a mac, because windows is not  
using a resource for for file info storage
also bear in mind when you have the thumb drive connceted to a  
windows machine you may see see some files twice

eg
windows.txt (original data file) to copy
.windows.txt (mac resource fork) do not copy this!
James



On 10/02/2010, at 19:44, Brian Scott wrote:



Hi,

I have an 8 G thumb drive formated to MS-DOS (FAT32), when I copy a  
plain
text file (no .txt extension) to it the text file becomes a Unix  
Executable file when it gets there.


Text files with extensions e.g. .rtf .txt remain unchanged.

Is there some quick way of getting these pseudo executable files on  
the thumb drive

to turn back into text files.

Or must I put an extension all my plain text files before  
transferring them.


I'd like to keep the TD MS-DOS (FAT32) so it can be accessed on a PC.

TIA

Brian



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Re: text files turning into executables after copying to PC Thumb drive

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 10/02/2010, at 7:44 PM, Brian Scott wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an 8 G thumb drive formated to MS-DOS (FAT32), when I copy a plain
> text file (no .txt extension) to it the text file becomes a Unix Executable 
> file when it gets there.
> 
> Text files with extensions e.g. .rtf .txt remain unchanged.
> 
> Is there some quick way of getting these pseudo executable files on the thumb 
> drive
> to turn back into text files.
> 
> Or must I put an extension all my plain text files before transferring them.
> 
> I'd like to keep the TD MS-DOS (FAT32) so it can be accessed on a PC.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Brian
> 


You should be able just to append the .txt extension to them and have them 
revert to the correct icon. You can very simply set up an Automator file to do 
this on a batch basis on your files before you copy them. The Rename Finder 
Items is the one you want. It deals intelligently with filename extensions. If 
you're running Snow Leopard you an even save this as a Service and have it 
available from Finder's contextual menu.

Just another of the small evils Microsoft foisted on an unsuspecting world...

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text files turning into executables after copying to PC Thumb drive

[Brian Scott]

Hi,

I have an 8 G thumb drive formated to MS-DOS (FAT32), when I copy a  
plain
text file (no .txt extension) to it the text file becomes a Unix  
Executable file when it gets there.


Text files with extensions e.g. .rtf .txt remain unchanged.

Is there some quick way of getting these pseudo executable files on  
the thumb drive

to turn back into text files.

Or must I put an extension all my plain text files before transferring  
them.


I'd like to keep the TD MS-DOS (FAT32) so it can be accessed on a PC.

TIA

Brian



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