Copied file vanishes when client is OS X

[Ed Holden]

Benjamin,

Thanks for the very good suggestions.  I tried them both ...

> Do you have Apple's development system on that system?  If so, you
> could check for differences in the Mac OS metadata with the tool
> "GetFileInfo".  Also you can run "DeRez" on the file (redirect the 
> output to a file) to determine if the file has a resource fork and if
> it is empty.

I installed the Developer Tools SDK as you suggested.  GetFileInfo had 
this to say about the file:

  file: "/Users/nrladmin/Desktop/gnu-linux.pdf"
  type: ""
  creator: ""
  attributes: avbstclinmed
  created: 11/24/2003 16:49:40
  modified: 11/06/2003 21:05:53
  
And DeRez says this:

  ### ./DeRez - The resource fork of 
  "/Users/nrladmin/Desktop/gnu-linux.pdf" 
  is empty and uninitialized.

Is an empty and uninitialized resource fork a bad thing?  Somehow I think 
that might not be the precise problem.  If I open the PDF in Preview and 
do a Save As, creating a new file called gnu-linux2.pdf, the new file 
copies fine.  However, the DeRez output is identical.  And the 
contents of the files are also ientical, according to diff.

> Does a copy of the file work, if you create that with the "cp" tool in
> Terminal.app on the Mac?

Good idea.  I did cp on the command line and unfortunately the copy 
still fails.  It's the same result as if I had run a Duplicate in the GUI.

-Ed

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:

> Hi Ed,
> 
> 
> Sorry for getting into this discussion late. 
> 
> Ed Holden <eholden at mclean.harvard.edu> writes:
> > Curiously, I've done some more testing and have found that a
> > specific PDF file called "gnu-linux.pdf" that I created with
> > OpenOffice.org 1.1 is the most consistently problematic file.  It
> > always disappears, at least when I copy it to a specific folder.
> > Even if I rename it.  But if I take another PDF file and give it
> > that name, it copies fine.  I still can't duplicate the problem on
> > other clients, just on Macs.  So it seems to have something to do
> > with the specific file and OS X.
> >
> > I can even take that PDF file, open it in Preview and do a Save As,
> > and the resulting file copies fine.  Has anyone heard of problems
> > with specific file types, or files containing specific types of
> > data, being copied badly or not at all by Samba?
> 
> Do you have Apple's development system on that system?  If so, you
> could check for differences in the Mac OS metadata with the tool
> "GetFileInfo".  Also you can run "DeRez" on the file (redirect the
> output to a file) to determine if the file has a resource fork and if
> it is empty.
> 
> Does a copy of the file work, if you create that with the "cp" tool in
> Terminal.app on the Mac?
> 
> 
> benny
>