[G4] "Finder.dat" file?

[Dudley Smith]

  What are you asking for it?
  Dudley Smith
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Cory T" <coryt at loungechicago.com>
  To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
  Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [G4] "Finder.dat" file?


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  > From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com]On
  > Behalf Of Shannon Nugent
  > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:01 PM
  > To: Power Macintosh G4 List
  > Subject: Re: [G4] "Finder.dat" file?
  >
  >
  > Ok.  That might answer another question I had in Director.  Usually
  > Director movies I create on the Mac or PC play fine on either system
  > (cross compatible),  but after deleting most of the "finder.dat" files
  > I found on the zip "which were visible for some reason" I had some
  > trouble with a project that we had started in class on the PCs.  Some
  > of the files seemed to be missing  or just generally messed up in the
  > score part of the movie on my Mac at home.  And one of my sounds
  > Director couldn't locate on the zip.  I had to redo a lot of the work
  > here (just replacing those files).  Deleting those files here might be
  > the reason.  I'll just leave it alone now and see if anything weird
  > happens from now on.
  >
  > On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 09:02  PM, Perry The Cynic wrote:
  >
  > > Finder.dat is a file the (pre-OS X) Finder creates on MS-DOS formatted
  > > drives (or a few other "foreign" formats) to hold the Finder
  > > information that's usually stored on the Macintosh filesystem. That
  > > includes the desktop database and the file metainformation (creator
  > > codes etc.)
  > >
  > > You can ignore that file. If you throw it out, Icon positions etc.
  > > will be reset but nothing terribly bad will happen. (You should use
  > > MS-DOS style file extensions then, because you'll lose creator/type
  > > information.)
  > > You can also reformat the drive using HFS/HFS+, which will get rid of
  > > Finder.dat altogether, but will make the disk unreadable on Windows.
  > >
  > > AFAIK, there's no way to tell the Finder not to (re)create this file
  > > on an MS-DOS partition it writes.
  > >
  > > Cheers
  > >  -- perry
  > >
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