[mateo]

I have been unable to copy the resource forks of files using ditto. I type a command like this:

sudo ditto -V-rsrcFork 'Documents/Documentation' '/Volumes/Firewire HD 20/Documentation'

This copies the files over to my backup hard drive, but when I look at the files in the Finder, it doesn't seem to have copied the resource fork. Many of the icons are blank and when I look at them in Get Info, they have no file type assigned to them.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there something wrong with my system?

I'm not sure if this is related, but maybe it offers a clue to the solution of my problem: when I type man ditto, I get the following message before the manual text is displayed:

mdoc warning: list open at EOF! A .Bl directive has no matching .El

Thanks

[fitter]

Do you have the dev tools installed? If so, try using CpMac until you get your ditto problems sorted out.

The warning you get when you view the ditto manpage is telling you that the nroff formatting of the page is slightly broken, much like a webpage missing a closing </B> tag.

[Paul McCann]

Originally posted by mateo:
I type a command like this:

sudo ditto -V-rsrcFork 'Documents/Documentation' '/Volumes/Firewire HD 20/Documentation'

This copies the files over to my backup hard drive, but when I look at the files in the Finder, it doesn't seem to have copied the resource fork.

Maybe it's just a typo, but if you're not leaving any space between the two options it might explain the behaviour that's occurring. That is, try inserting a space between the -V and the -rsrcFork in the command quoted above, rather than jamming them together. It certainly *looks* wonky to me, and doesn't work for other utilities (try, eg, ls -l-a versus ls -l -a or even ls -la).

Cheers,
Paul

[mateo]

Originally posted by Paul McCann:
Maybe it's just a typo, but if you're not leaving any space between the two options it might explain the behaviour that's occurring. That is, try inserting a space between the -V and the -rsrcFork in the command quoted above, rather than jamming them together. It certainly *looks* wonky to me, and doesn't work for other utilities (try, eg, ls -l-a versus ls -l -a or even ls -la).

Cheers,
Paul

Thanks, Paul, It does turn out to be a typo. I've got it working now.