Really weird occurence in Saving a Mac Stand alone

Éric Miclo eric.miclo at wanadoo.fr
Fri Apr 6 06:13:10 EDT 2007


Hello,

Doesn't it just copy the file that is inside the "application bundle  
folder/Contents/MacOS" folder?
The defaultFolder for a MacOS standalone is the same as the above  
folder (something that I ever found strange) and not the actual  
folder containing the application bundle.

Best,

ÉrIC

Le 6 avr. 07 à 07:56, Joe Lewis Wilkins a écrit :

> Jacque, thanks for the thoughts. I'm trying something else first,  
> since I think I just confused the compiler with the parameters  
> provided from the dialog I was using. If I can't, I'll try as  
> you've suggested. It makes some sense. File names are so touchy!
>
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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