On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM, M Pulis <tooth...@fastq.com> wrote: > Please do not advise this hack. It is not supported by the Finder.
Erm? The Finder very much supports not displaying dot files. And open/save dialogs even support toggling their display (Cmd-Opt-. I believe?) > The Finder does not show nor allow users to create "dot" files nor > directories because they are reserved for the system. No they're not. Do an ls -al in your home directory and you'll see how not-reserved dot files are. ._ files, on the other hand, are resource-fork containers and shouldn't be touched. And .DS_Store files should be burned at the stake. :) > Unless you can absolutely prove that your file fits Apple specs for a > legitimately installed "dot" system file that is not the best practice to > make a non-system file invisible. Seek an alternative. There are temp > directories and other legit facilities. What Apple spec? Dot files have been part of UNIX for decades. > Under prior Mac OS's, dot files were divers. You could trash a system by > rebooting after saving a file with the name ".sony". You also couldn't have a file name with a colon in it back then. Times have changed. > Even if 10.6 doesn't barf, there is no guarantee that your > unknown-to-Apple-and-you-were-warned-not-to-do-this dot file will not > corrupt future systems or not be casually destroyed in the background as > part of a system cleanup properly identifying (your) suspicious files as > viral data. Now you're just making things up. There exists no evidence or reason for any of the results you portend. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
