Thanks or explaining this.
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
On Jun 8, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Esther wrote:
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
