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If it doesn't work,
Authored by: simbalala on Nov 06, '05 03:04:33PM

<blockquote>Initially, this didn't work for me. After reading the original Apple technote, it occurred to me that perhaps the generated plist file wasn't going to the correct place. Though it was in my user's Preferences, it was not in the system preferences.

I tried copying the newly created ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktopservices.plist to the main system preferences folder: /Library/Preferences/. Then restarted my computer.</blockquote>

At first I thought it wasn't working so I did the same, copied the ~/Library... file up to /Library... (there was no such file there before) but now I figure that I'm looking at the wrong files on the server and confusing myself. I don't get .DS_Store files and did not before I copied the prefs file upwards either.

But I always do get the ._AppleDouble files (ie: image.jpg and ._image.jpg) though and in the case of small images they're more than double the size of the actual image.

I've searched around and found no way to turn these off and some controversy about whether they can be safely deleted or not. I'm thinking that for Linux purposes when I don't care about bringing the files back into the Mac it doesn't matter.

Any thoughts on this? Anyone?



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If it doesn't work,
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Dec 05, '06 12:34:33PM
But I always do get the ._AppleDouble files (ie: image.jpg and ._image.jpg) though and in the case of small images they're more than double the size of the actual image. I've searched around and found no way to turn these off and some controversy about whether they can be safely deleted or not. I'm thinking that for Linux purposes when I don't care about bringing the files back into the Mac it doesn't matter.


Those are thumbnails, and/or image previews. Try setting what ever graphics application you are using to not save a preview/thumbnail. That way there wont be any resource forks in the files.

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