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Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines?

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines?
Date 2012-03-31 16:25 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <310320121625320462%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <1khtck7.1cpp6j8ywoetvN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <jl5lq9$tqi$1@dont-email.me> <d46dnXpRF-NKBevSnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@earthlink.com> <jl78t3$cig$1@dont-email.me> <YeCdnSACc6er--rSnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@earthlink.com>

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In article <YeCdnSACc6er--rSnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant
<ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

> > They are resource forks. That's how Apple gets around the fact that
> > other file systems don't have them.
> >
> > ._filename is the resource fork for filename
> 
> Is it bad to delete those files? I wasn't sure to keep them or not. It's 
> like Windows' thumbnail.db files.

potentially, it can be very bad, depending on what's in the resource
fork. sometimes it won't matter and sometimes it definitely will.

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Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-24 09:16 -0700
  Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-31 09:02 +1300
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-30 21:14 -0400
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-30 22:40 -0700
        Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-31 11:46 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-31 11:57 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-31 13:16 -0700
            Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-31 16:25 -0400
              Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-31 17:18 -0700
            Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-02 00:54 -0400
          Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-04-01 12:22 +1300
    Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-30 22:40 -0700
      Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-03-31 20:15 +1300
        Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-03-31 05:44 -0700

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