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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:57:18 PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: EA DATA . SF on a Compact Flash USB card?

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The point is that I have NEVER copied ANYTHING *TO* the CF card. It
happens when I copy my pictures *FROM* the CF card to my hard drive!
It does NOT do this when I do the copy from the command line, so that is
what I will use in the future.

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <406BB3D7.20700@san.rr.com>, on 03/31/04
> at 10:17 PM, Tom Brown said:
>
>
>>I'm not using a file manager. There are NO EAs on the card to begin
>>with, at least as far as I can see.
>
>
> The WPS is your file manager when you do drag and drop operations. The
> EAs are on the file on your hard disk, so the WPS preserves them when you
> copy them to the card. Since the card is FAT formatted, the FAT IFS
> creates EA DATA. SF to hold the EAs.
>
> What you can do is create a desktop object to run eautil with the
> parameters:
>
> %* nul /s
>
> Dropping a file object on this object will delete its EAs. You can check
> your work with the dir command. The 2nd number is the EA size and will be
> 0 if there are no EAs.
>
> HTH,
>
> Steven
>

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Tom Brown
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:42 hours

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