Your feature is specific to NTFS actually, if the NTFS-3g people feel they wish to have this feature than that is nice for them, it is neither relevant to Mac OS X nor MacFUSE. As this is not relevant to either party that this list is ostensibly for, I would suggest you would be better served by the NTFS-3g community and more specifically the MacFUSE port of said technology - they have the ability to implement said feature, not the developers of MacFUSE.
Sam Moffatt http://pasamio.id.au On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:26 PM, [smiler] <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
