Re: [Netatalk-admins] Best version of Berkeley DBfornetatalk-1.6.3?

[Romeyn P. <pr...@di...>]

At 12:18 AM +0300 6/26/03, Stuart Gall scribbled:
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>From: "Thomas Kaiser" <Tho...@ph...>
>To: "Stuart Gall" <st...@ot...>; "Bjoern Fernhomberg" 
><li...@fe...>; "Ashok Aiyar" 
><ai...@eb...>
>Cc: "Netatalk-Admins" <net...@li...>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [Netatalk-admins] Best version of Berkeley DBfornetatalk-1.6.3?
>
>
>>  On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:05:20 +0300, Stuart Gall wrote:
>>
>>  > What about .AppleDesktop ? Wont the mac rebuild that if it 
>>doesn't find it ?
>>
>>  How should it? And why the hell do you want to delete it? ;-)
>I would probably never want to, but I may have to :-)
>
>>
>>  The .AppleDesktop directory will be populated whith application *mappings*
>>  and icons (to display generic icons for files that do not have the 'custom
>>  icon' flag set).
>
>On a mac if you hold down option (or is it apple + option ?) while 
>it is booting it will rebuild the "desktop file"
>I am not sure if it can be persuaded to do this on a share, or 
>indeed if the Apple Desktop File is the same as the .AppleDesktop.
>
>So I figured the mac could reconstruct the file.
>

I just tried this today and it does NOT appear to work with network 
volumes.  I'm not sure HOW you'd go about rebuilding a Desktop 
Database on a remote volume that isn't itself HFS(+).

(It is, BTW, CMD-OPT at mount.)

...ROMeyn
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