Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Unix command support for AppleDouble files
From: Richard Mann (rich@pubserv.com)
Date: Fri Mar 27 1998 - 15:26:47 EST
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Edan Idzerda wrote:
> At 07:00 AM 3/26/98, Alistair Riddell wrote:
> >I'm not sure about rm, cp and mv replacements, but there are scripts which
> >will check for .Appledouble files which no longer have a data fork
> >associated with them because it has been delted or move elsewhere.
>
> ...
>
> Then you wouldn't even have to worry about running some death
> script to check for orphan .Appledouble files.
Is there any kind of issue with orphan .AppleDouble
files, besides general housekeeping?
Usually for us the issue is a file not being able to be
opened by its application on a Mac, as a result of the
resource fork not being there, or it having the wrong
permissions.
For this I agree it could be handy to have some utilities
on the unix side to make things simpler.
But does it cause system problems of any sort, when
a .AppleDouble file sits out there with no match in
its parent directory?
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