Hi,
Retrospect scans the Windows hard disk and looks for files that need to be
backed up.
In this process we look for finder.dat files and the files that correspond
with that finder.dat.
Example:
I copy 10 Macintosh files to the Windows hard disk. They are all located in
a directory called "my data".
The "my data" directory contains 10 files plus 1 finder.dat file.
If I back up the "my data" directory, Retrospect will copy all 10 files
successfully (including the Macintosh attributes stored in the finder.dat).
If I move the 10 files to a different location on my hard disk, but leave
the finder.dat inside the otherwise empty "my data" folder, then Retrospect
will run into a problem. Retrospect scans the folder called "my data". The
finder.dat file tells Retrospect to look for the 10 corresponding files, but
because they are no longer in the same directory as the finder.dat, you get
a -43 error.
The solution is to always keep the finder.dat with the original data, or
delete the finder.dat.
If you choose to delete the finder.dat file, then you can not return the
file to a Macintosh without losing Mac specific properties.
This is one reason our user's guide reads:
If you move one of these Macintosh files on a Windows computer, also move
the Finder.Dat file with it...
Thanks
Robin Mayoff
Technical Support Supervisor
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> From: Steve Maser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:41:02 -0500
> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: The "FINDER.DAT" bug with Retro 4.3
>
>> Subject: Re: The "FINDER.DAT" bug with Retro 4.3
>> From: "Irena Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:40:17 -0800
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> If you move one of these Macintosh files on a Windows computer, it is
>> unusable unless you also move the other files and folder. When you use a
>> Retrospect Browser to view a Windows client volume containing these split
>> Macintosh files, only a single file appears. When viewed from Windows, the
>> extra files appear (unless Windows is set to hide hidden files). When you
>> back up the files to a backup set or duplicate them to a Macintosh volume,
>> Retrospect integrates them into the single original file.
>
>
> So, why, is Retrospect *not* backing up the files?
>
> On a folder I had where this was a problem (I couldn't back up the
> files within the folder), I deleted the "finder.dat" file:
>
> The files (and subfolders) within that folder were then backed up sucessfully.
>
> *And* I could open every single file within that folder.
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
> - Steve
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