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preserving resource forks
Authored by: sjk on May 25, '04 07:05:03PM

Not a great solution if you want to preserve resource forks and/or Finder comments. It's pretty likely that at least one file in ~/Library/Preferences has a resource fork and removing it (by restoring from a tar archive) might cause an application to fail or misbehave.



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preserving resource forks
Authored by: P3Consulting on May 26, '04 03:23:26AM

to preserve resource forks, you could use hfstar... (available at http://www.metaobject.com/downloads/macos-x/)



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preserving resource forks
Authored by: sjk on May 26, '04 10:44:36AM
Or hfspax. I had trouble with it and/or hfstar not handling >2GB archive files but that was a couple years ago and I don't recall the details.

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