Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 1/23/06 10:46 PM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cocoatech.com/ will get you there. A multitude of really useful features documented here, screen shots galore, and it has a built-in terminal pane so you can use those commands

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Swindell wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 1/23/06 10:46 PM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cocoatech.com/ will get you there. A multitude of really useful features documented here, screen shots galore, and it has a built-in terminal pane so you can

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Ault
Rev is HCard on mega steroids Path Finder is the Finder on mega steroids There is a 21 day free trial, full featured. I don't think many users will look back after their first day using it. The 4.01 upgrade is definitely worth it. Jim Ault Las Vegas

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Swindell
On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Buy it? Not a chance. Replicate it and claim they invented it? Likely Oh yeah. I forgot. :( It's amazing what a small shop can come up with that a megashop like Apple can't, though. People have been wanting a new Finder experience

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Timothy Miller
Since I have switched to Path Finder, I have been very happy with is interface and features (virtually all of the normal Finder plus many more). Just last night I began to do a few comparison searches: result: All files found by Path Finder... many cases of hundreds of missing files in

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Ault
Path Finder does go way outside Human Interface Guidelines, so Apple is probably stuck re-writing the rules first. Meanwhile, I am happily productive. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 1/24/06 10:07 AM, Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Buy it?

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-23 Thread Timothy Miller
On 1/21/06 3:44 AM, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An update on 'spooky' Rev incident. SOLVED -- Rev is definitely NOT the culprit My working version of a stack that had script-only changes is, indeed, correctly saved to my hard

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/23/06 12:47 PM, Timothy Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coincidentally, just this morning I found a wayward file I thought I had lost, or maybe never made in the first place. If I had not found it, I would have suffered some serious harm. When I finally found it, it seemed to be MIA

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-23 Thread Sivakatirswami
Where does one get Path Finder? I also use locate from the terminal quite a bit. results are verbose, but you do find everything. On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Jim Ault wrote: Since I have switched to Path Finder, I have been very happy with is interface and features (virtually all of the

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-23 Thread Jim Ault
http://www.cocoatech.com/ will get you there. A multitude of really useful features documented here, screen shots galore, and it has a built-in terminal pane so you can use those commands on the current folder/drive Optional to use Spotlight or their own fast find. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 1/23/06

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-23 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/23/06 10:46 PM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cocoatech.com/ will get you there. A multitude of really useful features documented here, screen shots galore, and it has a built-in terminal pane so you can use those commands on the current folder/drive Optional to use

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/21/06 8:35 AM, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES, you can just breathe on the scripts and they want to be saved! Of course pasting in text would be a desired alteration, but I notice it gets 'dirty' even if on doesn't change anything in the script but if one just copies it!

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/20/06, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An update on 'spooky' Rev incident. SOLVED -- Rev is definitely NOT the culprit My working version of a stack that had script-only changes is, indeed, correctly saved to my hard drive. The culprit is SPOTLIGHT, which is a Mac OSX feature new

RE: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
YES, you can just breathe on the scripts and they want to be saved! Of course pasting in text would be a desired alteration, but I notice it gets 'dirty' even if on doesn't change anything in the script but if one just copies it! hey, I just did this 5 times in a row and then understood

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-21 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/21/06 3:44 AM, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/20/06, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An update on 'spooky' Rev incident. SOLVED -- Rev is definitely NOT the culprit My working version of a stack that had script-only changes is, indeed, correctly saved to my hard

RE: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-20 Thread MisterX
] Sent: Thursday, 19 January, 2006 08:23 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying changing a script and then later realizing it wasn't saved happens OFTEN! Not every day but when it hits you, you can be sure you have to revise ALL your script changes

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-19 Thread Jerry Muelver
From: Jim Ault I restarted my Mac (G5 dual, plenty of hard drive space, 10.4.2, rev 2.6.1), launched Rev, reopened the stack, and there was no part of the new scripting that I had done... none. Yes I do frequent saves, I have searched the drives for every version of this stack... there is

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Swindell
This is kind of spooky, no? Has the behavior been reproduced or does it still appear random? Mark On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Jerry Muelver wrote: From: Jim Ault I restarted my Mac (G5 dual, plenty of hard drive space, 10.4.2, rev 2.6.1), launched Rev, reopened the stack, and there was

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-19 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/19/06 3:47 PM, Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is kind of spooky, no? Has the behavior been reproduced or does it still appear random? Mark Spooky is a good word. Appears only to have been yesterday, the 18th. Not reproduced since. I am starting to use the altArchive plugin

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

2006-01-19 Thread Jim Ault
An update on 'spooky' Rev incident. SOLVED -- Rev is definitely NOT the culprit My working version of a stack that had script-only changes is, indeed, correctly saved to my hard drive. The culprit is SPOTLIGHT, which is a Mac OSX feature new with Tiger versions (10.4+). Here is why the

Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Ault
I have been working most of the day on a stack script modification that will read large data files, modify the contents and write much smaller files with the data reorganized. I restarted my Mac (G5 dual, plenty of hard drive space, 10.4.2, rev 2.6.1), launched Rev, reopened the stack, and there

Re: Amazing, strange, and mystifying

2006-01-18 Thread xavier . bury
changing a script and then later realizing it wasn't saved happens OFTEN! Not every day but when it hits you, you can be sure you have to revise ALL your script changes in that session. I've done multiple changes to more than one object and then revising noticed NONE of the scripts were