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On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
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 alegitimately installed "dot" system file that is not the best practice tomake 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 byrebooting 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 yourunknown-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 asviral data.Now you're just making things up. There exists no evidence or reason for any of the results you portend. --Kyle Sluder
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