Great! Thank you for your very useful reply. Regards, Eric > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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