Re: Invisible Unix "Icon" File
Re: Invisible Unix "Icon" File
- Subject: Re: Invisible Unix "Icon" File
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:28:11 -0500
Yesterday, my Mac mini died. Needs a new logic board. I tried to send
to the list from my very old G3 iBook with 10.4.11, but my mail was
rejected because Mail changed my address from me.com to mac.com. I've
now solved that problem. Here's what I tried to post ...
On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
are we sure that the Icon files being seen are not remnants of OS 9
usage of the disk?
Yes.
In Snow Leopard, I can create an "Icon^M" file in a folder simply by
copying & pasting an icon via the folder's Get Info.
On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:47 AM, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
Custom icons created by standard ways are Unix executable files as
you may see below.
The ones I created had Kind = Finder.app Document.
What bothers me is that when you remove a custom icon from a folder,
the Icon^M file is not removed, but its contents are removed.
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