Puzzling problem: export gif

[Klaus Major]

Bon jour Dom,

> Hi!
>
> I have a puzzling problem...
>
> I converted a huge image HC database to Rev -- no problem here
> The HC stack was a very simple, just an image depository
> But it is a very large one, with a 44 Mb footstep -- so I considered
> exporting the image to Desktop database, with images in nested folders.
> Moreover, it takes a very looong time to see inside the stack with the
> Application Browser ;->
>
> In each card, there is a path field, containing some keywords.
> I gathered these keywords into a text file, and created the folders 
> with
> an ancillary stack [two levels depth, though... there is as much as 7
> keywords for some cards!]
>
> Then, I tested a button to export the image in the card to a GIF image
> (as there are only B&W bitmap images in this stack)
> A test stack worked well, after some tweeking.
>
> I copied the button onto the stack to parse...
> Oddly this worked fine for 10 cards -- and stopped to work, with this
> error message:
>
> Type    export: can't write to file, mask file, or container
> Object  export gif
> Line    export image 1 to file timage as GIF
> Hint    CULTURE/Codes spécialisés/image14.gif
>
> The script:
> ...

does it work if you use foldernames without accents?
-> CULTURE/Codes specialises/

Maybe this is still the old OS X bug with umlauts/accents in 
pathnames...

Just a thought...


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de