Re: Newbie or ??
Re: Newbie or ??
- Subject: Re: Newbie or ??
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:29:36 -0700
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Jacques Lacroute wrote:
Thanks, but it seems that there are different types of invisible
files, the ones that get "created" in the ArchosJukebox (even when
using the applescript duplicate instruction to transfer them onto the
Archos the ghost files are there) are named ._xyz.??? And they don't
show up with the "with invisibles" statement (when the .DS_Store
does), they do show up with the shell command ls -a . I'm afraid I may
have to use the shell to handle these.
Oh, those. "Archos" must be using some file system that doesn't
support multiple forks -- those files contain the Mac meta-info and
resource forks for the files in question. Mac file system calls (such
as "list folder" and the Finder use) don't see those as independent
files, and therefore don't list them. Depending on what's in them, you
may lose important information by deleting them. If, however, the
files are not particularly Mac-flavored (no resources, no type and
creator), then go right ahead.
--Chris Nebel
Apple Development Tools
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