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Where Does Finder Store Its Thumbnails?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 222393" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Interesting! Help out a Mac noobie here. What is a "resource fork"? Is this meta data associated with each file? You are saying that it writes the thumbnail right into the file's metadata, and can use that forever after? </p><p></p><p>If that is the case, that would be WONDERFUL, and so perfectly Mac'ish. Just another thing that Mac OS X does way better than Windows (or Linux for that matter).</p><p></p><p>Now I just need to explain why this only seems to be the way of things on my system drive. On removable drives such as USB and Firewire, and can see it regenerate the thumbnails on the first pass through a folder each time I plug it in (but instantaneous there after until I unmount the drive again). I have formatted my two external drives (one Firewire, one USB2.0) for Mac OS X's native format, and so it should support "resource forks".</p><p></p><p>Any thoughts on why this only seems to be the way on my system disk?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 222393, member: 17052"] Interesting! Help out a Mac noobie here. What is a "resource fork"? Is this meta data associated with each file? You are saying that it writes the thumbnail right into the file's metadata, and can use that forever after? If that is the case, that would be WONDERFUL, and so perfectly Mac'ish. Just another thing that Mac OS X does way better than Windows (or Linux for that matter). Now I just need to explain why this only seems to be the way of things on my system drive. On removable drives such as USB and Firewire, and can see it regenerate the thumbnails on the first pass through a folder each time I plug it in (but instantaneous there after until I unmount the drive again). I have formatted my two external drives (one Firewire, one USB2.0) for Mac OS X's native format, and so it should support "resource forks". Any thoughts on why this only seems to be the way on my system disk? [/QUOTE]
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