Copied file vanishes when client is OS X

[Ed Holden]

Benjamin,

> Hm, there must be *some* difference.  When I save a file from
> Preview.app, GetFileInfo says this about the new file:

Good call.  I had been checking with the DeRez utility on the 
Preview-generated version of the PDF, not GetFileInfo.  My bad.  Yes, the 
version from Preview contains exactly the meta data you specify.  So 
that must be the difference between the files, since the data forks are 
(according to diff) identical.

> Also, can you try, if the CpMac tool can copy the file to the Samba   
> server successfully?

It can!  If I run that tool on the bad version of the file it gets 
there fine.  So the problem is happening when I do a copy operation on
the version of the file that lacks info in GetFileInfo, but only when I 
do it via the GUI.  Wow, that's pretty specific.

-Ed

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:

> Hi Ed,
> 
> 
> Ed Holden <eholden at mclean.harvard.edu> writes:
> > 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?
> 
> No, that's perfectly ok.  It just means that it is a normal file
> created by a program that ignores Mac OS X specific file metadata and
> doesn't use a resource fork.  Just as expected.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Hm, there must be *some* difference.  When I save a file from
> Preview.app, GetFileInfo says this about the new file:
> 
>  file: "t2.pdf"
>  type: "PDF "
>  creator: "prvw"
>  attributes: avbstclinmed
>  created: 11/25/2003 18:46:29
>  modified: 11/25/2003 18:46:29
> 
> Can you try to set this type and creator in your file (make a copy for
> testing) with
> 
>   SetFile -c "prvw" -t "PDF " gnu-linux2.pdf
> 
> and test with that?
> 
> Also, can you try, if the CpMac tool can copy the file to the Samba
> server successfully?
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> The same should happen if you use "cp" to make a copy of the file
> generated from Preview.app, does it?
> 
> 
> benny
>