Extra files & docs

[Nancy J. Ayers]

Duane, They are in document folders.  I'm looking, as I'm writing 
here, in folders of things created in system 9 before I upgraded to 
X. In each folder there is at least one FINDER.DAT and one ICON and a 
RESOURCE.FRK.  Each RESOURCE.FRK folder has "documents" that seem to 
relate somehow to files outside of the RESOURCE.FRK folder--Some are 
Word files, some are just "document."  But there is not a one to one 
relationship.  There are many more files in the larger folder than in 
the RESOURCE.FRK  FOLDER. The names of the files each have a dash and 
a number.  The more I look, I think it's a Microsoft Word thing. 
Maybe "the previous saved" versions...something that was hidden in os 
9.  The extra files that don't match up in the RESOURCE.FRK are 
non-Word files.  So I guess I'm answering my own question...  Word is 
still doing it...giving me extras I don't care to know about or see! 
Nancy

At 6:27 PM -0800 2/28/03, Duane Murphy wrote:
>--- At Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:13:46 -0500, Nancy J. Ayers wrote:
>
>>Having just upgraded my Wallstreet to OS X, I'm puzzled by all the
>>occurrences of docs, in and out of folders, called "FINDER.DAT,"
>>"Icon," and "RESOURCE.FRK."  What are these? Can I delete them (some
>>I already have with seemingly no ill effects)?  Or is there a way to
>>hide them?
>
>Can you expand on this information? Where are you seeing these files
>Everywhere is not a good answer. I would like some more specifics. Are
>they spelled as you have indicated?
>
>Deleting the resource.frk file will almost certainly be a problem. Icon
>files are usually custom icons for files or folders.
>
>Quite honestly, you _should_not_ be seeing any of these files.
>
>  ...Duane