Re: Rename nested folders
Re: Rename nested folders
- Subject: Re: Rename nested folders
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:51:47 -0400
So the + in HFS+ is essentially bigger files and Unicode names, then?
HFS+ itself has no restrictions on filename characters; anything in
Unicode is fair game. So I would guess that in files created under OS
9 slashes are stored as slashes. For files created under OS X I could
see it going either way; as long as the API returns slashes in HFS
paths and colons in POSIX paths, it doesn't much matter.
Regardless, however, it appears that the ZIP file format uses slashes
as a directory separator. Even though it can store both directories
and files, it doesn't use that mechanism to record which files are in
which directories; it just uses the full path as the name in the
archive. So I'm still at a loss as to how you could create a ZIP
archive containing filenames with slashes.
I suspect the OP had files that looked like "foo/bar" in the Finder,
which ZIPped up as "foo:bar"; the latter won't extract on Windows
because colon is also an illegal character in a filename (used to
separate drive letter from path, don'cha know).
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