Re: What are all of these .AppleDouble folders?


Subject: Re: What are all of these .AppleDouble folders?
From: Steve Freitas (sflist@ihonk.com)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 21:13:57 EDT


Hi Mike!

>So what is netatalk doing? I have duplicates of everything on my novell
>server, and it has a nasty little habit of crashing when the volumes are
>filled.

The .AppleDouble files contain the resource forks of the Mac files. They
include the type and creator reference codes for the files. So if you
delete them, many of these files will fail to belong to the right, or
even any, program.

Steve



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