Hi Richard,
If you still have a Mac running Mac OS 9, why don't you just give it
a try? Create a file without file and creator type and put that into
a folder. Stuff or zip that folder and decompress it on the Mac OS 9
machine. Play with it for a while, open and close the files, move the
folder elsewhere, or add and remove files to or from the folder. On
my Classic machine, it usually takes less than a minute for the files
to jump to another location in the window.
This has little to do with Revolution, though. Usually, good network
software and a properly installed File Exchange control panel take
care of this, but not always, as is the case with compressed files.
Setting the file type to "????????" makes sure that zipped and
stuffed files contain the correct meta data and doesn't take much
more effort than setting the file type to empty.
Best,
Mark
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Op 9-mei-2006, om 15:43 heeft Richard Gaskin het volgende geschreven:
Mark Schonewille wrote:
Sarah and Chipp,
Please! Don't set the filetype to empty. This can cause
unexpected results, such as files appearing at random locations
in Finder windows or even off-screen on the desktop, particularly
on older systems. Have mercy with the users of your software.
Instead, set the filetype to "????????".
Is the Mac so brittle that merely copying a file from any file
system that doesn't support Mac metadata will cause these anomalies?
I've seen the Finder be a tad flaky now and then, but nothing quite
as extreme as moving files to inaccessible locations by simply not
having a creator code assigned to them.
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