I’ve never seen them on my windows computer which is where I use MS Word. I
don’t have Word or Office on the Mac and think I’d only ever invest in getting
it if & when the Mac gives me the ability to do Braille work /reading .BRF
files.
Thank you for the explanation.
Eileen
From: David Griffith
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 6:24 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Files Question.
The files beginning with ~ are typically temprary Word or Office files which
are created when you open an MS Word document in Word for editing. Normally
these files are deleted when you close a document or shut down Word. However if
you for any reason shut down your computer without closing Word or if your
computer crashes then these files remain on your disk. Word can use them on
Windows for document recovery. I do not believe that similar document recovery
is possible if they are simply ported across to the Mac.
David Griffith
On 19/10/2015 23:00, Eileen Scrivani wrote:
Although I have not inspected them for a one-to-one correspondence (there are
too many of them), they all appear to be in the folder with the standard file
type. I have not brought my Itunes stuff over to the Mac since I am still
leary of it.
I normally connect my phone to my Windows computer.
Eileen
From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 5:42 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Files Question.
Jonathan Cohn
On Oct 19, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Eileen Scrivani <etscriv...@verizon.net> wrote:
Hi,
I had my Mac Book restored to Yosemity last week. I’ve recopied my files
back onto the computer, but have a question about the files I copied over from
a USB drive.
I copied 3 folders from my Windows 8 computer. The files are a
combination of .DOC (MS Word) .TXT & .PDF files. They are in the folders on
the Mac. However, before I get to the file names I recognize, I have a series
of files that all seem to begin with ~$ then the file name. Some say they are
MS Word docs, but others indicate they are Unixe executable files. I have no
idea why they are there or where they came from. Can anyone please explain
what they are, why they are there and can I delete them from the folders?
Below the list of all the ones that start with ~$ is the real file list of
names I am able to open in Text Edit and read.
Thanks for any input.
Eileen
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<Eileen scrivani.vcf>hello,
These contain metadata like tags and access list and default application to
open the file. They should be safe to delete if they appear on your mac hfs
disk partition though copying the files back to the mac should have
reincorporated these with the regular files. I would be more concered about
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