forced to use Applescript - hope

[RCS]

  This is kind of how this thread started. I had an awesome routine for
copying
files and folder that would not work under OSX. It was traced down to the
file
type and creator signatures, and Scott is aware...I thought they did away
with
type and creator?

  I will just be glad when I don't have to wait for Applescript to 'kick in'
to copy a
few files...maybe that is just OS9 though.

Windows is fine.

JR


> Actually this is a bad idea under OSX.  Even though this is a perfect
> solution for copying some files, many files and applications in OSX
> still have resource info attached to them.  I'm stuck with 5gigs of
> data that I am slowly resurrecting by reseting the file creators etc.
> (no backup).

> Anyhow, if you want to use the command line to copy files around, a
> PERFECTLY SOUND solution as Brian points out, you need to use the
> following command instead:

> ditto -rsrcFork /Users /Volumes/OtherPartition/Users

> Do a man on ditto to learn more.