Re: Retaining Resource Forks During Copy

From: Paul W. Nelson (nelson_at_thursby.com)
Date: 03/12/04

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    in article Xns94A979061A6EEtryter@207.46.248.16, Tim at user@hotmail.com
    wrote on 3/11/04 11:56 AM:

    > Greetings:
    >
    > Does anyone know if there is a windows utility that will copy Mac files and
    > retain the resource forks? Up until recently we have always used a Mac to
    > copy files so that resource forks are maintained.
    >
    > TIA

    Windows 2000 and later will preserve resource forks and meta data that are
    embedded in "streams" of a file.

    As long as you copy the files on or between NTFS volumes, resource forks are
    maintained.

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