Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: tar: Pathname too long Date: 20 Oct 2016 15:23:28 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <6klgdd-65d2.ln1@news.chingola.ch> <1mvbw4r.1r5nnx01q1ronmN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <1mvcx27.1u41d2t4l3wmN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <1mve09c.1f6qpqrw0dc6nN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <1mvf62v.b85wvz1tcxn8mN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <1mvfii1.2imlrg1bv6sqlN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> X-Trace: individual.net 7RNi6KA77W+RaYXdbi5EXADW4/8uCzkOMpvKM36E4njlPzEesg Cancel-Lock: sha1:JvAGs3e2WCWXuoLv98w+05+FtCM= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:37151 On 2016-10-20, David Empson wrote: > Happy.Hobo wrote: > >> On 10-19-2016 20:06, David Empson wrote: >> > Setting aside the possibility of Windows third party software, the most >> > likely explanation is that something on your Mac is setting a custom >> > icon for that folder, and it was a coincidence that you only noticed it >> > after the drive was connected to Windows. >> >> Possible that it happened on the Mac. Unlikely that anything created a >> custom icon for the folder because >> >> (1) only things that touch that folder are rsync, LibreOffice, TextEdit, >> OneDrive, Finder, and various shell commands >> >> (2) the folder doesn't have a custom icon > > It may not look like it has a custom icon, but it may have a custom icon > which is the same image as the standard one. Yep. > You can check by doing a Get Info in Finder, clicking on the icon in the > top left corner, clicking on the Edit menu and seeing whether the Cut > command is enabled. If so, it has a custom icon. Using Cut (or pressing > the delete key) to get rid of the custom icon should also delete the > Icon\r file which you can confirm using Terminal. Yep. And if you highlight the icon in the Info window and copy it, choosing Edit > Show Clipboard from the Finder's menu bar will show you the icon you copied. Then if you open Preview and create a new document, the icon will be inserted into the new document automatically, and you can save it as a regular image file to re-use again in the future. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR