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

Date 2012-03-31 17:18 -0700
From Ant <ant@zimage.comANT>
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Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Access Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8's Time Machine backups from non-Apple Mac machines?
References (2 earlier) <jl5lq9$tqi$1@dont-email.me> <d46dnXpRF-NKBevSnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@earthlink.com> <jl78t3$cig$1@dont-email.me> <YeCdnSACc6er--rSnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <310320121625320462%nospam@nospam.invalid>
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On 3/31/2012 1:25 PM PT, nospam typed:

> 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.

Thanks. I will stop touching those files then.
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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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