Hi Justin and David, If you notice that in Justin's example, the files that give the messages are ones that begin with "._" and are the Apple Double Format files. These typically contain information that is associated with Apple's file formats, but which don't have meaning in other file systems. For example, this could be information like which application (iTunes, Audio Hijack Pro, or VLC) should open a particular MP3 file. (Whereas, on a Window system the application that opens a file is determined by the file extension.) When files are copied to a USB thumb drive, which uses the Windows FAT32 format, this resource fork information is split off from the data part of the file. See, for example, the article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106510 (Apple Double Format Creates File Name With the Prefix '._') In Leopard, there is supposed to be a dot_clean command that you can use to merge the files back. Since I'm running Tiger, I can only point you to the developer page entry: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/dot_clean.1.html Any Leopard user should be able to get the same information by using the command, "man dot_clean" (without the quotation marks) in terminal. Justin could try using a command like: dot_clean /Volumes/JUSTIN/CCBI//Trifled Revisals/ and see whether the files with "._" disappear from this mounted directory. Then, try doing the copy again. Just some thoughts. Cheers, Esther On June 08, 2008, at 03:28AM, David Poehlman wrote: >well, google has this: >http://acl.bestbits.at/about.html >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Justin Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >theblind" <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:04 AM >Subject: terminal and extended attributes > > >Hi all > >The strangest thing just happened and I wonder if I might be able to >get an explanation from some of the terminal users in this list. >Basically I tried to copy a folder from my thumbdrive /Volumes/JUSTIN >to a folder in my home directory. I think it copied it alright but it >gave me a bunch of stuff to the effect that it can't copy what it >refered to as extended attributes. Take a look at a sample. There >was too much to have the whole output in this email. > > > >cp: /Volumes/JUSTIN/CCBI//Trifled Revisals/._Trifled Final.rtf: could >not copy extended attributes to /Users/Blindstein/Documents/CCBI/ >Trifled Revisals/._Trifled Final.rtf: Operation not permitted >cp: /Volumes/JUSTIN/CCBI//budgets/._Budget Report Oct 06-Nov 07.xls: >could not copy extended attributes to /Users/Blindstein/Documents/CCBI/ >budgets/._Budget Report Oct 06-Nov 07.xls: Operation not permitted > > >Ideas >? >Regards >Justin Harford > >Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell and >looked awhile, pondering his voyage > >John Milton >Paradise Lost > > > > > > >
