Be aware that this will not always work, as some apps are known to
store some pretty critical data in the resource forks even though
they're not supposed to. A file extension will not totally solve the
problem. I'm trying to remember some specific examples -- Tinderbox
was one I believe, as well as BBEdit, storing state and marker info,
and a few others.
I'm certainly not one to defend resource forks (begone evil ones!) but
I'd caution against throwing them out with the bath water just yet.
As a test, duplicate and tar some user documents, then untar and try to
use them. In my experience, about 98% were ok, the rest were hosed or
at least crippled in some way.
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On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Ball, Dan wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has a script or knows of a program that will
go thru and read the resource forks of files and add the specific
extension to the file?
