In a local computer advertising/information mag, one of the writers has
a continuous column on switching from pcs to a mac using OS X. In the
latest installment, he comments on the 'shadow' files that begin with
._ which are evident when transferring files from a mac to a pc. I
know they are
These files are not on the Mac as individual files. The reason they
show up on the 'doze machine is that the Mac filesystem stores
additional data about each file (the Resource fork), which no other
filesystem supports.
MacOS seems to add these files on the 'doze side to preserve the
metadata
On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Brian Mahoney wrote:
In a local computer advertising/information mag, one of the writers
has a continuous column on switching from pcs to a mac using OS X.
In the latest installment, he comments on the 'shadow' files that
begin with ._ which are evident when
On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Eddie Roosenmaallen wrote:
These files are not on the Mac as individual files. The reason they
show up on the 'doze machine is that the Mac filesystem stores
additional data about each file (the Resource fork), which no other
filesystem supports.
On the contrary,
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On the contrary, they ARE on the Mac.
drwxrwxr-t 40 root admin 1462 Jul 28 15:33 .
drwxrwxr-t 40 root admin 1462 Jul 28 15:33 ..
See the .DS_Store, .Trashes files?
The only files missing are the ._filename files which correspond to
the
