Well, "Finder" metadata (which I've seen referred to as "Finder
info", too) is essentially the metadata available via the
SetFile/GetFile tools.
Oh really? I'm not sure how anyone could make that determination.
Finder metadata would be data relevant to the Finder which is a
superset of that available in Finder Info or through the
SetFile/GetFile tools... and some of that data is POSIX metadata so
how does that jive?
For non-definitive yes/no cells I suppose there'd be a short
description or perhaps a footnote (as some of the existing
exceptions). In the same way versions could be noted, too (as above).
I was optimistic for the listings, however. For example you have to
specifically configure a Bacula option in your file set before it
will pick up the resource forks and is easy to miss.
I think what people really need to see is an enumeration of each
specific metadatum.
This makes great sense and in fact I considered doing that first or
as a follow-up. I think I hit the major ones, though (metadatums,
that is :).
A datum is a singular piece of data. There are no "datums" it's data.
If I started that page (or amend this one) would you contribute
what you know?
Why not just cull the already available stuff I've written or that
written from others?
> As we've seen reported over and over most so
called Mac sysadmins firmly believe that their copy mechanism of
choice is working just fine, which is obviously NOT the case. ;)
There is probably no tool short of a sector-level copy (dd) that can
perfectly capture everything :).
dd specifically only copies data. It does not copy metadata.
And yes there is a tool that perfectly copies all data and metadata.
Probably more than one.
--
-dhan
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