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

From Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org>
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 11:46 -0400
Organization Ain’t No Organization Here!
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On 03-31-2012 01:40, Ant wrote:
> On 3/30/2012 6:14 PM PT, Wes Groleau typed:

JKG> Note if you've backed anything up with a resource fork (rare nowadays),
JKG> you'll destroy it if you copy it over to a FAT or NTFS disk.
>>
>> Depends on what software you use to copy it. That was common in the
>> early days, but lately I have been seeing a lot of ._DS_Store and the
>> like in Windows.
>
> I see those a lot on places that share with Windows machines like at work.

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

-- 
Wes Groleau

   Nutrition for Blokes: Re-engineering your diet for life
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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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