[Pythonmac-SIG] move/rename files w resource forks (original) (raw)

Paul Berkowitz berkowit at silcom.com
Mon Nov 15 18:44:26 CET 2004

On 11/15/04 9:36 AM, "brad.allen at omsdal.com" <brad.allen at omsdal.com> wrote:

Paul Berkowitz wrote:

ditto -rsrc

will copy files complete with resource forks, on all Macs - no special tools required. Then rm the original. Yes, that's great for copying, but not for move/rename. In this case, until I have implemented a better way, I'm using ditto as a very inefficient "move" by deleting files from one directory and using ditto -rsrc to copy to a different directory.

But that's exactly what 'move' commands do behind the scenes anyway - copy and delete original. It's not in the least inefficient doing it explicitly yourself - it's just one more line of code to rm. It's a minor nuisance for renaming.

-- Paul Berkowitz

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