[OS X TeX] OT: bogus Snow Leopard file over-writing warning
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Aug 3 23:30:43 CEST 2011
On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:16 PM, William Adams wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>> It is entirely possible that what looks like copying one file could actually be copying that file with a hidden file too!? And of course ``some'' could be all!? :-)
>
> ._dstore files aren't worth the Finder being concerned about.
>
Howdy,
.DS_Store files hold information about a folder's setup. But there can be a hidden file, I think called ._thisfile, associated with thisfile which holds metadata for that file.
>
>> What kind of file system is being used on the network drive?
>
> NTFS32 --- it's a Windows server.
>
> William
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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