mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> Matthew wrote:
> > Hi, we're finally moving the majority of our WO development away from NT
> > (yippiee) and onto Mac OS X Server. I didn't expect this to go extremely
> > smoothly, but nevertheless the problem I encountered is annoying to say
> > the least.
> >
> I haven't noticed any serious problems in migrating at all -- with the
> exception of a few path name changes everything so far has "Just worked".
>
> > I installed OS X, copied my framework from NT to the new installation,
> > and then tried opening the framework in Project Builder. This was okay,
> > however when I tried to clean the project, it went on forever thrashing
> > the hard drive. I finally stopped this and went to build the project
> > which it did in approximately half a second (the status for building
> > wasn't displayed correctly, so I presume that it didn't actually build
> > anthing at all).
> >
> > The problem is, when I then restarted Mac OS X Server, it couldn't boot
> > into the log in panel, and continously showed the 'starting up' message.
> > Therefore WebObjects (or ProjectBuilder) seemed to trash my Mac OS X
> > installation. Is there any steps that people should be aware of when
> > moving projects from NT to OSX?
> >
> Were you by any chance logged in as root when you did this?!
>
Yes, as a number of people have mentioned, this isn't probably the best thing
to do. I was logged in as root, but I've now learnt my lesson :)
Thanks,
Matthew Bickham
>
> I really can't understand why cleaning a WO app should trash your disk,
> unless for some reason there was something in your NT project which was
> interpreted on MacOS X as "rm -Rf /"
>
> Best wishes,
>
> mmalc.
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