Intersep or Finder Generating Empty Files

Amiga,

These apparenly "empty" files are probably one half of the Apple-Double file system paradigm. Many Mac files contain a "resource fork" as part of the file, but some file systems cannot handle this resource fork. When these files are transferred to a file system that cannot handle the resource fork, and everything works correctly, the information contained in the resource fork is placed in a second, similarly-named, file.

This is probably what you are seeing. If you are working with images professionally, my guess would be that you will want all of the "extended attributes" that are normally contained in the resource fork to be left intact. In this case, using the HFS+ file system, and only the HFS + file system, is the way to go. Once an image has been converted to some compressed, lower resolution format such as JPG, this copy can be sent to some other file system. The originals, however, will be better off in HFS+.


Scott