Re: E-mail Recipients receive two attachments

From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:08:37 -0700

On 6/1/04 2:08 PM, in article BCE23E78.15634%bill@nospam.net, "Bill Weylock"
<bill@nospam.net> wrote:

> Of course it is such a habit now that I forget that I used to have problems
> before I learned to add extensions. I honestly thought that such issues were
> well in the past. I¹m OS X spoiled now and have ³hide extensions² turned on
> for most apps, so I forgot. Saving files, I do go out of my way to make sure
> they have extensions, but it¹s second nature.
>
> Where I DO have a consistent problem is when I copy folders or groups of files
> from the Mac over to the PC. Then I get an array of files with a ._ prefix. I
> assume those are the resource fork files, and I am guessing that is how they
> display in someone¹s email attachment list.

Those are invisible files that tell the file system what's in the folder, I
think. They're Unix directory files of some type (I'm not an expert). They
show up also in the classic Mac OS, not just in Windows. In fact, if you
have a computer more than 18 months old or so and can boot into OS 9, you'll
see all those files when you look over to your OS X sector. In fact, even in
Classic within OS X itself, any File/Open or File/Save browsing from a
classic app will include those invisible files. In Unix-land, prefacing a
file name with a "." makes it invisible. the "._" is for these directory
files.
>
> Sorry to interfere with your support, but I did learn something too. Thanks.

There's no interfering. This is just a discussion here. I'm just a user like
you. 

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