No. You just need to make sure that you have the extensions. Watch when you go to save a file. Most applications will have a checkbox to hide the extension, so when you save a file as document1, in Word, it will save it as document1.doc. As for any of the files that you are having problems opening, just add the file extension to them, and you should be good to go. If you have the file extensions, then OS X will match them with the applications. Apple stopped relying on resource forks so that you wouldn't have problems like this. Change is always a problem though. On 5/25/04 2:43 PM, "Eric Peterson" <eric at lgthouse.com> wrote: > I am copying to a non HFS partition. Should I be worried about files > ending with .doc, .pdf, and other similar files? > > Thanks. > >> OS X relies on the file extension, so as long as you have .doc, .pdf, etc. >> added to the file name, you shouldn't have problems. >> >> I have not worked with rsyncX, so I am not sure how it transfers the >> files, >> but I think it is supposed to copy the resource forks too. If you are >> copying to a non HFS partition though, that is where they may get lost. >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> On 5/24/04 5:50 PM, "Steve Swantz" <listbox at nwaalpa.org> wrote: >> >>> Eric Peterson wrote: >>> >>>> I now want to sync the same files with a Mac OS X workstation, but the >>>> whole resource fork problem is getting in the way. Most of the >>>> documents >>>> are Word documents if that helps. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I've been using rsyncX (check www.versiontracker.com) to rsync between >>> Macs and from some Linux boxes to a Mac. Not sure about putting files >>> with a resource fork on a Linux box - maybe rsyncX to an HFS partition >>> on a Linux box? >>> >>> rsyncX will overwrite Apples rsync, so be sure to make a copy first. >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >>> Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list