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

Date	2012-03-31 05:44 -0700
From	Ant <ant@zimage.comANT>
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Subject	Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines?
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>>> Note if you've backed anything up with a resource fork (rare nowadays),
>>> you'll destroy it if you copy it over to a FAT or NTFS disk.
>>
>> Thanks. I don't know what resource fork is. Are you saying copying
>> folders/directories and files to FAT and NTFS drives would mess them up? :(
>
> If they've a resource fork<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork>,
> yes. But few OSX apps or documents use them any more, as resource forks
> are a legacy technology brought over from classic MacOS days. Instead
> the OSX way is to use bundles - folders with an extension that means
> they're displayed as a single file in OSX (unless you right click and go
> "Show package contents"), but show up as a folder full of other files
> and folders (the parts that make up the app or document) when viewed in
> another OS.
>
> So you'll probably be ok unless you've older apps (and the documents
> they produce) from the early days of OSX, or the few that cling to using
> resource forks. I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's just something
> to be aware of, if for example you're an old time Mac user like myself,
> with apps ported over with very little if any change shortly after OSX
> arrived on the scene, and documents I still access that date back to the
> 90's :-)

Oldest Mac OS X applications I can think of are from 2008 (v10.5) so I 
think I am OK. :)
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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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