Re: Clear Metadata in Tiger -- success
Re: Clear Metadata in Tiger -- success
- Subject: Re: Clear Metadata in Tiger -- success
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:24:06 -0600
Entity Doug McNutt spoke thus:
> At 22:48 -0600 5/18/05, Gnarlodious wrote:
>> True, but now how do we clear metadata? In Panther the cp command would
>> clear metadata (creator & type, icon, position, etc) but in Tiger it has no
>> effect.
>>
>> How to?
> Surely cp, as modified by Apple for OS neXt, has a new dash option to behave
> the UNIX way. Doesn't it?
No such option is found.
> I had to back out of 10.4 because it won't talk to my SE/30's but what does
> "man cp" have to say?
Nuttin'
> If it ain't so it should be possible to find an unmodified version of the UNIX
> tool. Darwin Ports? How about recovering cp from 10.3 and renaming it?
> What about scp? Will it work with localhost?
Yes, but now supports resources and metadata by default, just like cp.
But rsync, which now supports resources can do it. Using rsync without the
-eahfs option copies purely UNIX files. The syntax is a bitch though.
While farting around with it I discovered that rsync as of Tiger now
supports the Mac resource fork. This is good, previously we had to install
the RsyncX HFS patch then send a command with the path to the patched
command or by default it would use the unpatched command and lose the
resources.
So once again, rsync to the rescue! Haven't put into an Applescript yet,
though.
And you're right, icon position is not in the metadata, except (apparently)
for files on the desktop.
-- Gnarlie
> Icon's, if assigned specially as in an "open with" choice are in the resource
> fork. Window coordinates are ignored by Finder if present in the metadata
> anyway. They're probably in .DS_Store files. OS neXt absolutely ignores finder
> information prepared on my SE/30's.
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