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?
Moving away from AFP to SMB......when shutting off appletalk and
sharing the items out over SMB the resource forks get lost and won't
work correctly unless you put the extension on the ends of the file
names. Would be nice to have a script or program that could go down
thru and look at the resource forks and add the file extension to the
file.
Hmmm... You know if you properly set up SMB, the OS will split the
forked file into 2 separate files, for example, for file "foo" you'd
get:
foo
._foo
On the OS. A Mac client to this SMB share would pick up this info, and
could properly interpret the file type (e.g. a Word file). Only
problem is is a "genius" admin on the Windows side wonders what all
"these crap ._ files are" and deletes them, then you're in for some
hurt.
You could manually change the names, but it shouldn't be strictly
necessary... OS X can handle it.
