Re: Invisible Unix "Icon" File
Re: Invisible Unix "Icon" File
- Subject: Re: Invisible Unix "Icon" File
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 08:08:56 -0700
On Nov 4, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
> I've seen these on Windows or Samba shares as far as I remember. The
> file is called "Icon^M" (i.e. Icon with a Ctrl-M character at the end)
> and maybe your script did not like the control character in the name.
>
> I think they are created by the Finder when you set a custom icon for
> a file and the filesystem doesn't support resource forks or
> attributes.
It's the standard way of storing custom icons for folders in the Mac OS.
-- Michelle
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