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Authored by: kennyfett on Nov 20, '02 10:30:49AM

Yeah, I can attest to the 'riskiness' of this action..

I just tested it out last night on a mounted Windows volume I had some backup installer files on. They were all in Stuffit format- I do this only because storing .dmg files and whatnot gets screwed up when copied back onto the Mac...

Anyway, I deleted about 10 or 12 ._ files that accompanied some of those .sit files, and then I decided to test out whethere or not those .sit files would still open.

Well, much to my horror, Stuffit Deluxe (or any OTHER program on my HD) would recognize the file for what it was! Now I have to go back and reload several files- including the iCal and iPhoto installers, which I stuffed and put in storage...

Be warned- this procedure wrecks some types of files!



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