Re: FLASH: Is this one of those weird PC/Mac things ?

[Frederico]

On 10/29/1999 8:14 PM, Tom Green via

tgreen17home [dot] com

, said:


>BTW. Am quite familiar with ResEdit, Frederico, been using it since 86/87 

>or there

>abouts. The app still scares the beejeebers out of me because I have seen 

>far to

>many newbies to the Mac seriously screw it up because they didn't have a clue

>regarding what they were doing.


Then I would suggest you would feel much safer with Snitch or FileBuddy, 

which only allow you to alter the file type and creator codes, and not 

(easily) access the actual file code or resource fork.


FWIW, I d/l'd the file you referenced, and found the typical generic 

text-file that was created when the author used WinZip or a like-utility, 

and your version of Stuffit (I'm guessing 5.1.x) inadvertantly stripped 

out the creator information.


If the author had used Stuffit to ZIP or SIT the file, this would not 

have happened.


Also, had you mapped out the '.fla' extent in FileExchange (or MacOS 

EasyOpen), and then restarted the Mac, then double clicked the file, it 

likely would have opened correctly, anyway. But, given what an 

unnecessary pain in the ass that is, just swap the creator codes, and all 

will be well.


Better, if you encounter this as frequently as you say, just make an 

AppleScript that you can drop any generic FLA file on, that will then 

swap the codes for you to make it Mac-ready in a flash (so to speak).


Happy Friday


Frederico


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