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To verify that the dir I just copied to the external, exFat formatted hard drive has really the same contents, I used this solution. However diff -rq lists a lot of (if not all) files with a dot prepended only on the external drive.

Is this intended? How can I avoid this?

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    Please add at least some of the relevant output.
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Sep 21, 2022 at 9:30
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    ExFAT can't hold perms, ACLs or resource forks. That's what the dot files will be. Basically it's breaking the files and will reassemble on copying back to a Mac drive.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Sep 21, 2022 at 11:27
  • Okay thank you. What is "it"? Can I look this up somewhere?
    – ManuelSchneid3r
    Commented Sep 21, 2022 at 14:22

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