Re: Sync .DS_Store files
Re: Sync .DS_Store files
- Subject: Re: Sync .DS_Store files
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:44:20 +0100
.fseventd is not a time machine specific folder.
See FSEvent API for details.
Le 26 mars 2010 à 13:21, gMail.com a écrit :
> Thank you Dave, Thank you Jens.
> I will ignore the .DS_Store files. I think the Finder will take care of
> them. Also I have got the same question on the hidden directory
> /.fseventsd
> As I know it contains log files created by Time Machine. I have tried to
> backup the files it contains but, even running as root, I can't. It seems
> that even the root user has no permissions to do that.
> So, can I exclude this directory from the backup? If I do that, will Time
> Machine not work as expected on the backup disk? I would not cause a
> problem...
>
> Regards
> --
> Leonardo
>
>
>
>> Da: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
>> Data: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:08:03 -0700
>> A: "gMail.com" <email@hidden>
>> Cc: <email@hidden>
>> Oggetto: Re: Sync .DS_Store files
>>
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:42 AM, gMail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to sync a folder containing several files and the hidden
>>> file
>>> .DS_Store. I know that this file contains special info about the
>>> directory,
>>> so I sync it too. Should I really do that?
>>
>> Ideally you should, because it contains some user data (like the view
>> settings, I think). But as you've discovered, the way the Finder
>> touches these files all the time makes it very awkward to sync them,
>> so I think people usually just ignore them.
>>
>> —Jens
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had similar problems in the past. I usually just filter out the
>> files you mentioned, e.g. ignore them. There are also AppleScript
>> etc. that will delete them for you, do a google and you are bound to
>> find them. Bottom line: it's not worth trying to treat them as normal
>> files.
>>
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>
>
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