[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Share Journal entries over external devices #1636

[Simon Schampijer]

On 11/26/2010 04:33 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from simon's message of Thu Nov 25 10:51:16 +0100 2010:
>
>> metadata and preview of an entry are stored in hidden files. For example
>> when copying an entry homework.pdf to the device a file called
>> .homework.pdf.metadata and .homework.pdf.preview will be stored on the
>> device as well. Those will be read in when copying an entry from the
>> external device to a Journal.
>
> I'm not yet convinced of that approach. How do you detect and handle
> "stale" metadata and preview files? Especially since you "hide" the
> files (how do non-Unix OSs handle dot-files, BTW?)

On a Windows XP machine I had access to the dot-files. Windows does 
handle the visibility of a file with an attribute. On OSX the dot-files 
are not shown.

Regards,
    Simon