Hi all, I'd like to suggest a feature, but it's both file-system and Mac OS X specific.
It's to deal with the displaying of hidden files in the Finder, in particular with NTFS. Windows hides quite a few files from users, sometimes by unusual means. For examples, system-wide, anything named with a $ at the start (an illegal FAT32 character I believe) will not be displayed in Windows Explorer. This applies to the Recycle Bin ($RECYCLE.BIN) on volumes, and hidden shares on Windows computers. There are other folders which are normally hidden, though I'm not sure how they're hidden (like 'System Volume Information' on NTFS drives). My suggestion is to hide them from the Finder by automatically writing a ._filename metafile indicating the 'invisible' flag. This can be created using the developer tools' 'SetFile' utility from the command line. Alternatively, the invisible bit could be returned to the OS. I realise it's difficult to decide where and how to implement this. Obviously my example is specific to NTFS. However, if 'average' users see these folders, more-often-than-not they feel compelled to delete them (i.e. they weren't there in Windows, where are they here now? I'll get rid of it). Regards, Alexander Melhuish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
