Hi all,
Somehow over all these years, I've managed to use Python on Macs
without having it deal with resource forks and all that -- but
ironically, now that we're all OS-X all the time, I need to do it now.
What I'm trying to do is simple check for the existence of a resource
fork, and if it's th
Hi Chris,
Let me start by saying that I've never used MS services for Macintosh,
so this is all guesswork. But the first thing I wondered was, if files
uploaded over AFP aren't using ._* files, what are they using?
Presumably the Windows machine isn't actually mounting an HFS or HFS+
filesystem, s
On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> How should I be doing this -- the docs are sparse, to say the least!
>
> By the way, I might as well tell you the real goal, maybe one of you
> will have a better idea.
>
RezDet command line utility perhaps?
as in:
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Daniel Lord wrote:
> RezDet command line utility perhaps?
Yup, that looks very useful -- it just may be the solution.
I had no idea it was there, and it took a while to find it. Maybe it's
time to add /Developer/Tools/ to my PATH.
thanks,
-Chris
(still wondering how to do it inside Python...
Hamish Allan wrote:
> Let me start by saying that I've never used MS services for Macintosh,
> so this is all guesswork. But the first thing I wondered was, if files
> uploaded over AFP aren't using ._* files, what are they using?
The server is storing the resource forks somewhere, but not anywher
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> The other obvious option is to look for the ._* files, which is where
> the resource fork is stored with the SMB protocol. However, we're
> concerned that that may not be reliable -- if a file were put up with
> SMB, then replace
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 03:56:16PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Hamish Allan wrote:
> > Let me start by saying that I've never used MS services for Macintosh,
> > so this is all guesswork. But the first thing I wondered was, if files
> > uploaded over AFP aren't using ._* files, what are they
