Re: FLASH: O.T. : mac projector [ made on a Mac] zipped/unzippednot working

[K]

>Thanks for the response Chad but as I said in my message the projector was

>made on a Mac & was working fine until it was zipped upon my PC.

>

>The unzipped projector isn't recognised by the same Mac that it worked

>on earlier: double clicking on it just opens Simpletext.

>

>What I wanted to know was why the file is showing up as a PC text file

>instead of a Flash projector.



Neil is correct, the reason why this does not work is that the resource

fork was removed when you copied the file to the pc.  The resource fork

contains two four character codes, a file type and a creator type which

tell the computer what kind of file it is and what program to open it in,

respectively.  If the file is just a document, this does no real harm, as

you can just open it from within the desired program and it will function

normally.  However, if the file is an actual program (i.e. executable) then

you have a real problem.  The only way to fix this after the fact is to

manually restore the file type and creator codes (with more complex

programs than projectors the resource fork also contains many other things

which cannot be so easily restored). I can tell you how to do this, though

it's not often something that makes the most sense to do.   To prevent this

problem, you should zip the projector on your mac, and then you can move

the zip file around as much as you want and your projector won't be

damaged.  I use Zipit, which is shareware.  Zipit is designed  to compress

mac files in such a way so as not to lose the resource fork.  I can be

obtained at

http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/mac/infomac.html?fcode=MC10527 .

hope this helps =)


karen

snotty mac user ;-)


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