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Re: Custom Icons?


  • Subject: Re: Custom Icons?
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:06:35 -0800

On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:21 PM, Joshua See wrote:

On Jan 21, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
Well I just removed a custom folder icon via the shell...

icontest> rm Icon^M
icontest> SetFile -a c .

Didn't even need to update the Finder -- just returning to Finder from the Terminal showed the de-iconed folder.

It probably doesn't matter much in the era of 200GB drives, but wouldn't this deletion technique leave an orphaned resource fork? Wouldn't a Finder delete be more thorough?

Only if you're using a single-fork file system like UFS, which most people don't. (On such file systems, the resource "fork" is faked using an invisible second file.) If you're using HFS or HFS+, rm will delete both forks.


--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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