[Pythonmac-SIG] move/rename files w resource forks

brad.allen at omsdal.com brad.allen at omsdal.com
Mon Nov 15 18:36:40 CET 2004


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.




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