Hi Bob, Wallowa Bob wrote: > Harry, Carl: Don't know if it is an old Macintosh path style, but I'm > an old Macintosher.
I started to work with Macintosh computers in an advertisement agency in 1991, so I know about the difficulties of coping with new conventions involved with switching to OS X. As soon as Linux and NT4 servers were involved I had to ask other Mac (pre OS X) users to use new naming conventions compatible with the new server environment and PC "neighbors", especially adding (correct) file extensions was new to us all. I already used file extensions a lot since that made retrieval from tape backups more reliable... > I manually make and nest folders on the hard drive > using the "add folder" buttons (I dislike the way Åpple now wants us > to use their prenamed folders within different "Users" environments). OS X is a UNIX style OS and apps on these platforms often rely on a certain location for their preferences and documents. So using a classical Mac user's behaviour of storing files even on the top level of the internal HD *might* work, but there is no guarantee. On your internal HD try to get comfortable with your "User" folder. Actually this is where the files belong in so that things can work as they should... > In this case the photos were only numbered, inside a TRAIN PHOTOS > folder, inside the PHOTOS/RK folder on my HD disc folder. Maybe that > backslash did it in the PHOTOS/RK name. (Apple in my experience > doesn't get wigged out by slashes and punctuation in it's file and > folder names like PCs do, but maybe Hugin doesn't like them either, so > I took it out just now. Good idea. > I loaded them using the "Load Images" button in Hugin Assistant tab; > again, pretty straightforward. > I will try the steps Carl suggested above regarding making discrete > project folders, and I will recopy the app again; I was concerned that > it might be conflicting with older installations of Hugin, but the > only file I found outside the Applications folder was a preferences > file in my Library. Thanks for the reply. > -Bob > > On Jun 8, 12:08 am, Harry van der Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Bob, >> >> I had the same questions as Carl. >> >> The path statement is really weird. >> It says: /PHOTOS\:RK folder/TRAIN PHOTOS folder/_1010657.JPG. >> >> The ":" inside which needs to be escaped, hence the backslash in front of >> it, is really peculiar. >> >> It looks a bit like the "old" Macintosh way of path's like PHOTOS*:*RK >> folder*:*TRAIN PHOTOS folder*:*_1010657.JPG. >> But than partially "POSIX" with the forward slashes. >> Next to that it also says "RK folder" and "TRAIN PHOTOS folder". Did you >> really name you folders to something like "<foldernname> folder"? >> >> In case you did name the folder path with a ":" inside, please try to avoid >> that. BTW I think the problems behind ':' and '/' on the Macintosh platform are nicely described in this article: <http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/USENIX_2000/> Carl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
