Re: Dot files
Re: Dot files
- Subject: Re: Dot files
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:43:22 -0700
While Apple has (mostly successfully) attempted to deprecate the usage of resources in files since OS X, many Classic programs use resources in ways that are critical to the functionality of the document. Styled TextEdit files are an easy example of this. The formatting and coloring is held as resource fork information. So is custom frame data in QuarkXPress 4 files.
Try creating a formatted file in TextEdit in OS 9 or earlier, and put it through the Windows-format transfer process.
Rick Gordon
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On 6/19/06 at 12:02 PM -0400, Gary (Lists) wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Dot files":
>"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.
>
>
>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.
>
>This is precisely what I thought originally, and that's what your write-up
>confirms.
>
>Thanks.
>--
>Gary
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