[TxMt] TM creates

Gavin Kistner gavin at refinery.com
Tue Sep 13 14:34:09 UTC 2005


On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> 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).


Does this technote only apply to .DS_Store, or also to dot-underscore  
files?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301711




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