Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved
Date	2015-01-25 22:08 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-01-25, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 1/25/2015 1:00 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>>>>> *sigh* Whoever came up with the complete mess that is DS_Store should be
>>>>> locked in a dungeon until it is vanquished from Mac OS X for good, IMO.
>>>>
>>>> Ditto. Annoying files on non-Apple places too.
>>>
>>> that can be disabled.
>>
>> True, you can prevent a Mac from creating .DS_Store files on network
>> volumes by setting the following hidden preference:
>>
>> defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
>>
>> Note, however, that this must be done on each and every Mac that will
>> access that network volume to be effective.
>>
>> There are other files that Mac OS X creates that may confound users of
>> other operating systems, such as "_MACOSX" folders in ZIP archives.
>> These are created to hold information that is normally stored in the
>> resource fork of the HFS file system. You can omit these from ZIP
>> archives by supplying the -X command-line switch when creating the ZIP
>> archive on the command line, if desired. You can also strip the resource
>> forks of any files you add to the ZIP archive to ensure no such folders
>> are created. But the folder and its contents don't cause problems on
>> other operating systems, and can be safely ignored.
>
> Is there a side effect of diasbling them for Macs?

_MACOSX folders? Yes. Whatever data was stored in them is lost.
Depending on the file types within the ZIP archive, that can cause the
files to be missing important data. So it's best only to remove this
information for files that you never plan to edit or use on a Mac again.

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Problems with Spotlight comments isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-01-22 21:51 -0800
  Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-01-24 21:48 -0800
    Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 14:55 +0000
      Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-25 12:05 -0800
        Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-25 15:42 -0500
          Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 21:00 +0000
            Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-25 13:48 -0800
              Re: Problems with Spotlight comments -- Solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 22:08 +0000

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