Really weird occurence in Saving a Mac Stand alone
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Apr 6 01:41:43 EDT 2007
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> You've got to hand it to me. I DO have the weirdest things happen.
>
> I saved a Standalone. I opened the Mac OSX version. Played with it a
> bit, then decided I wanted to save a copy. So I selected the Save A copy
> As... with the following handler in the File menu:
>
> case "Save A Copy As..."
> answer folder "Select destination folder for backup: "
> if the result is "Cancel" then exit menupick
> revCopyFile (the effective fileName of this stack), it
> break
>
> Then I went looking to see if the changes I'd made were actually saved,
> but lo and behold a PC exe version was where the saved copy should have
> been.
>
> Any thoughts?
I can't say I've ever tried to save a copy of a standalone from within
itself. But are you sure it's a PC executable? Or does the Finder just
think it is, and is assigning the wrong icon? I'm betting that the
creator/type codes weren't set, and the Finder has no idea what kind of
file that is.
I'm also wondering if you actually got an executable file, or just a
copy of the main stack. Are the file sizes on disk the same between the
two copies? If they are the same, then you might be able to use a
creator/type editor to change the type to "APPL" and you'd be in business.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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