Extra files found after a copy from Windows

[Jeff Kinz]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:39:43AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> TWIMC,
> 
> Below is the partial output from an "ls -lh" command run on a
> directory in my server. It shows a number of files, named
> Scan<nn>.jpg. This is expected and welcome: they're there because I
> did a copy and paste from my son's Windows machine into the server
> directory they're in now.
> 
> However, each of the .jpg files has either brought with it, or Samba 
> has created, two other files: one is apparently a thumbnail image, and 
> the other a zero-length file, both starting with the same name as the 
> associated .jpg image.
> 
> Please tell me why/how these files have appeared, and if they indicate a 
> fault condition. TIA.

Don't know:
> 
> total 61M
> -rwxrw-r--    1 henry    users        168k Dec 28 04:44 Scan1.jpg
> -rwxrw-r--    1 henry    users        6.3k Dec 28 04:44 Scan1.jpg:Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
> -rwxrw-r--    1 henry    users           0 Dec 28 04:44 Scan1.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
> -rwxrw-r--    1 henry    users        615k Dec 28 05:05 Scan10.jpg
> -rwxrw-r--    1 henry    users        6.0k Dec 28 05:05 Scan10.jpg:Q30lsldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
> -rwxrw-r--    1 henry    users           0 Dec 28 05:05 Scan10.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA

Would need more info on the tools used to look at the files and what Win
OS was used.

It possible that the "icons" that were cut and pasted by a windows
explorer tool automatically include all three files. But I've never
heard of that before.

Some GUI viewer tools on Linux and Win automatically create thumbnails
the first time you open the file.

its possible that whatever version of Windows your son is running has a
non-default action set up for handling jpg's.

But without more info all of the above is just speculation.

Can you SMB mount the Win file system to your Linux system and do an
"ls -lags " on the directory?


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