Re: Dot files
Re: Dot files
- Subject: Re: Dot files
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:39:32 -0700
On Jun 19, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Gary (Lists) wrote:
"Matt Deatherage" wrote:
On 6/19/06 at 1:53 AM, Gary (Lists) <email@hidden>
wrote:
Nothing is lost of "the file" as most humans conceive it -- only of
its context and attributes in the Mac Finder environment. There is
nothing wrong, harmful, destructive or otherwise problematic with
ditching that data if it is not needed or desired.
This is, for all the reasons in caps and *asterisks* in the
original message,
exactly untrue.
Too cryptic for me. I'll pass.
Strictly speaking, you were correct -- if the data is not needed or
desired, then it's safe to destroy it. The problem is that you [1]
may not know whether or not you need or want it, either because you
don't know what it is, or perhaps you don't know that you want it
*yet*. Therefore, it's generally recommended that you leave them
alone, instead of, as many people do, saying "ooo, ick, extra
files!", running around deleting every one they can find, and then
wondering why some of their files don't work quite the way they used to.
But, at least we can all rest assured that when moving a file from
a Mac to
Windows, one can ditch any (all) "dot files" that mean nothing to the
Windows environment -- i.e., all of them.
Again, strictly correct. However, that assumes a one-way transfer.
If, as the OP did, you had a flash drive and moved things the other
way or simply had some files along for the ride, then you might have
issues.
--Chris N.
[1] That's the generic "you", not you in particular. You, of
course, are far too intelligent and aware to ever make this mistake. [2]
[2] That's sarcasm. [3]
[3] That's not an insult. Everyone screws up eventually. The trick
is to arrange things so it doesn't hurt (much) when you do.
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