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

[Kev Hegan]

Hi dante,


Apologies if this has already been sorted, but my mail server is down at

the moment.


I think you'll find that the mac projector will have lost its type and

creator attributes which are stored in a separate hidden file on the Mac

(Resource Fork). The only sure way I know of retaining the type and creator

is to make it a macbinary or binhex file in a utility such as stuffit. The

problem is that you'll need a utility to convert it back again. I think

Drop Stuff is installed as default on OS8, which would do the job.


You can set up translators (shipped with the system these days) on the mac

that will automatically give the file the right type and creator to match a

dos extension, but they don't (as far as I know) have flash files setup as

default, its all the usual .doc for word stuff. I use a shareware called

'filetyper' to change my type and creator. You can setup 'autotypers' that

you can drag and drop files on.


It would be interesting to know if anyone has a good solution to this

issue. I know ISO9660 CDs I have created using Mac CD writing software can

be read on both the Mac and PC and the Mac System can resolve the original

and the hidden file. Maybe newer versions of 'Zip It' on the Mac can store

the hidden file along with the main one but the version I have doesn't.



>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.

>

>thanks,

>                dante

>

>Scientia Potestas est

>Francis Bacon


Kev

kevhexprojekta [dot] demon [dot] co [dot] uk

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