No, not at all. Guy here has blessed his flash drive with a permanent "folder action" that automatically destroys the resource forks as you add files to it:
http://blog.kendell.org.uk/2010/09/07/banish-mac-os-x-resource-forks-from-fat32-volumes/ On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:44 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 27, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Michael J Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: >> >>> On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 27 Jul 2013, at 10:21 , Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I used the Terminal to delete a few of these hidden files, one at a time, >>>>> and this seemed to work, but deleting all of these files one at a time >>>>> throughout the entire flash drive would be very tedious and time >>>>> consuming. >>>> >>>> cd /Volumes/FLASHDRIVE >>>> >>>> find . -name "._*" -delete >>> >>> Thank you very much for the quick and helpful response! I really >>> appreciate it. >> >> You realize that this is a side-effect of the file system you chose, yes? >> You are essentially removing the Resource Fork of the files as they have >> been converted to the FAT32 system. > > Well, I'm not an expert by any means, but I figured this was a side effect of > using FAT32. It was not my first choice for the file system, but the native > Mac OSX file system was not recognized by the car's audio system, so I had to > fall back to FAT32 to get it to work. > > Is there any drawback to removing the Resource Fork for each file, if my goal > is simply to play music in my car? > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
