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What is Finder.dat?

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by Alex Ethridge, 2002/02/28.

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  1. 2002/02/28
    Alex Ethridge

    Alex Ethridge Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Someone called today asking me what the Finder.dat file is in a lot of his folders. I did a search of the word "finder" in my Master Windows 2000 Server book and the word does not appear. I can't find anything about it on Google either.

    What is this file?
     
  2. 2002/03/01
    anand

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    To copy a macintosh file into MS-DOS disk and back without loosing anything, the system creates in each folder two hidden items, a file named "finder.dat" and a subfolder named "resource.frk ".
    The data fork is stored in the normal folder, under the main name of the file.The resource fork is stored in the resource folder under a truncated name.

    Bye,
    Anand.
     

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  4. 2002/03/02
    Alex Ethridge

    Alex Ethridge Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    That's helpful and will explain why finder.dat would be all over the internet; but, why would it be on a personal system that has never been exposed to anything Mac?
     
  5. 2002/03/03
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    finder.dat

    It would not have been there if the machine had no exposure to a mac. Keep in mind that even using windows ported progs, like word, etc etc, and transferring those files to a windows version of word would expose your computers to those files.
     
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