{"id":2338,"date":"2017-01-26T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2017-01-26T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:24:10","slug":"mac-fonts-displaying-as-unix-executable-file-after-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/mac-fonts-displaying-as-unix-executable-file-after-copy","title":{"rendered":"Mac Fonts displaying as unix executable file after copy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently during a SAN migration, we copied data using Rysnc.\u00a0Aftewards\u00a0some of the users complained that the Font files where coming up as Unix Executable Files.\u00a0<\/p>

This is due to the way MAC’s store font’s using resource forks and HFS meta-data. You need to copy the folder using ditto instead.<\/p>

Login to Mac and Open up Terminal<\/p>

*** Warning this will overwrite the folder and also subdirectories ***<\/strong><\/p>

Ditto\u00a0–rsrc\u00a0\/source\/folder\/ \/ destination\/folder\/<\/p>

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You can copy this to network shares mapped in the GUI via<\/p>

Ditto\u00a0–rsrc\u00a0\/Volumes\/source\/folder\/ \/Volumes\/destination\/folder\/<\/p>

 <\/p>

FYI As of Mac OS X 10.4, –rsrc is default behavior.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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