Re: Hidden Files Not Being Copied


Subject: Re: Hidden Files Not Being Copied
From: Bill Moran (wmoran@mail.iowna.com)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 09:56:28 EST


Duncan Sinclair wrote:
>
> >The sequence may be slightly different than I described. Here was
> >exactly what I was doing ...
> >1. Use WinNT to copy a folder tree full of stuff onto the FreeBSD server
> >via Samba
> >2. Sit down at the FreeBSD box and verify that the files/directories had
> >ownership/perms that it should be deletable by Netatalk users.
> >3. Attempt to delete the folder tree from a Mac
> >Result: all files are deleted, directories are not. Mac give a "can not
> >delete because in use" error.
> >On the server, the .AppleDouble files remain (these were created by
> >Netatalk when the Mac browsed the tree) but no other files exist ... "rm
> >-r *" deletes the tree without error. It can also be deleted from the
> >WinNT station.
>
> Do any of the files have a name longer than 32 characters???
>
> These files also are never seem by a Mac, and so cannot be deleted,
> and a directory containing them will not be deleteable.

Nope, already been checked. In my tests I created directory trees
/test/test/test with files called test.txt in them. Same behaviour
though.

Thanks for the reply.

My original question still stands: Can anyone duplicate this behaviour?
Has anyone tried and got different results than me?

-Bill



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