Subject: Re: Apple Double?
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pocnet.net)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 17:52:16 EDT
At 16:35 Uhr -0500 03.04.2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
>> If you don't have any programs, this is okay.
>I'll store that away for future reference...Anyone have a pointer to
>something that explains what is going on with these files? I thought they
>basically fulfilled the role of "associations" under ol' Windoze, but
>there must be more to it than that....TIA
Basically anything what cannot be stored in the data fork of a file is stored in .AppleDouble Files: Mac-Resources, Mac-specific file-flags, etc.
WARNING: If you delete a programs resource fork the program is no longer useable! Even some files will get destroyed with such a step (Macintosh Finder Clips for example).
>> Are you sure that they have been recreated at this point?
>Yep, files are sitting there...
Access to these files is also possible (user/group permissions, file and dir modes)?
>> >I've also noticed that the icon given to the file is not that of the
>> >application used to modify/save the file.
>> If there are no .AppleDouble files, files are mapped via extension mappings in an AppleVolumes File. Have a look into this.
>That triggered an AH HA! but turned out to be nothing...:(
Hm.
:wq! PoC
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