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Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
Authored by: jacobolus on Dec 06, '05 04:22:17PM

It's the resource fork of the files. It doesn't matter if you're moving them to linux, unless some mac program has added metadata to the resource fork.



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Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
Authored by: grahamperrin on Jan 02, '08 01:05:25PM
> It's the resource fork of the files.

That's a common misunderstanding.

.DS_Store is associated with, amongst other things: comments that users add to files, layouts within folders, and so on.

._ files only sometimes relate to resource forks. Another example of ._ files is given at http://www.nabble.com/WebDAV-%28PLIP--187%29-and-Mac-OS-X-td14536481s6745.htm and further examples may exist.

Whilst you may choose to discard comments and other information relating to your _own_ files and folders, it's not good practice to destroy data that may be required by someone else.

Regards
Graham

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