Re: Losing Resource info of Mac files...

[Sarah Gonzales]

On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 10:33  PM, Gurpreet Singh (SCM) wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Well in some of the Mac client (using CVS client 3.2 b8 / b14), it was
> observed that the files which we did a clean get had lost its resource
> info....
> When we did the get / update again, it went fine ...  strange but it
> happened.
>
>
> Any idea ?

Are you using a Mac CVS client for OS9 or OSX? The resource info has 
always been problematic cross platform since the Mac OS is the only OS 
that supports it - if you have cross platform users checking out the 
files and checking them back in, some cases, this info gets munged.

This issue could also occur if one Mac user has a different application 
set to open these files than another - example - one Mac user has .txt 
files set to open with BBedit versus another user who uses Text Edit to 
open the same files. It is very dependent on the application and in 
some cases, the preferences of the application as to whether the 
resource info is saved along with the file.

Mac OSX is a more intelligent about how this information is handled. 
The order in which Mac OSX decides what application the file belongs to 
is below.

1. Mac OSX first looks to see if there is a creator / type associated 
with the file
2. OSX then looks at the file extension associated with the file
3. then forces the user to choose an application to open a file

#2 in OS9 is controlled by the Control Panels => File Exchange 
information on the machine in question. OS9 gets pretty confused if the 
#1 does not exist, even if the file extension is present. This 
typically forces the user to open the application first and then the 
file from within, versus your standard double click to open.

hope this helps.
thx,