[TxMt] TM creates

[Allan Odgaard]

On 13/09/2005, at 16.13, Xavier Noria wrote:

> Even "ls -a" does not show those "._" files [...] I am not familiar  
> enough with resource forks to be able to guess what's happening on  
> my own.

It is indeed metadata -- they do not exist as files on HFS+ volumes  
(for Tiger and onward), but with Tiger cp, tar, zip etc. were all  
“improved” to store the metadata as these ._... files (and restore  
the metadata when unpacking on a Tiger machine).

I don't know of an out-of-the-box workaround, other than maybe using  
cat to copy the files to strip the meta data. If you use tar, you can  
fetch a version of tar not from Apple and use that instead, since it  
then won't do the ._... files.

As for the metadata containing www.macromates.com, that should be  
com.macrmates.textmate.«key name», as that's the recommended way to  
name meta data keys/extended attributes.