David Bovill wrote:
> 2008/8/10 Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> When you copy files from OS X to a non-Apple drive, Apple insists
>> on also copying a metadata file with the same name of the one you're
>> copying preceded with "._" (e.g., "MySong.mp3" will result in two
>> files, one named "MySong.mp3" and another useless one named
>> "._MySong.mp3").
>>
>> I could have sworn I used to be able to delete these types of files
>> using Rev, but I've tried on a few USB devices formatted with FAT-16
>> and not even "the detailed files" shows any of these dot files, even
>> as the device itself shows me they're there.
>
> Really? yes - you used to / should be able to see these files in Rev
> - sure I've done that in the last months. Is this only for the USB
> drive - the NAS here shows the dot files in Rev - I'll be connecting
> some Fat32 drives in the coming weeks so would be good to know?
In further testing here it seems "the detailed files" only fails to show
the "._*" files on OS X; on Windows they appear in the listing as one
would expect.
This has now been reported:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6890>
PS: Andre, thank you for the workaround ; it'll get me by until this is
fixed.
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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