OS X document icon missing

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Thu Oct 19 18:40:02 EDT 2023


On 10/19/2023 5:37 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> On 10/19/23 3:29 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>> The extension shouldn't have an initial `.` - I suspect that is the 
>> problem :)
>
> That was it. I had to "Get Info" on the file before Finder noticed, 
> but then the icon showed up. I didn't even know the dot was there; I 
> knew it shouldn't be.
>

I someone who write a commercial software tool for researchers, I fully 
realize that a software vendor can not complete protect users from 
themselves. That said, a small Livecode enhancement might be a check if 
the file extension field starts with a . and either just remove it or 
warn the user :-)



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