[OT] Fixing Data and Resource Fork of Macintosh files

Alejandro Tejada capellan2000 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 14:19:22 EDT 2016


Stephen Barncard wrote:
> It's a 15 year old HC stack.


Actually it's 23 years! :D

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you could test this command line MacOSX utility
> please try first with this folder (that contains two files)
> and post back the result as a compressed file.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/5c4c5ahbuttzx4x/AE_SEA.zip?dl=0
>
> Many, many thanks in advance!
>
> Alejandro
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This question is for LiveCode MacOSX developers:
>>
>> Have you fixed a Macintosh file with a
>> broken Data Fork and Resource Fork?
>>
>> According to this webpage, there is a Mac OSX
>> command line utility named “FixUpResourceForks”
>> that could fix a broken Macintosh file:
>> http://macstuff.beachdogs.org/blog/?p=11
>>
>> Just for curiosity, Could you test this command line utility
>> “FixUpResourceForks” with files of the zipped file
>> "the_analytical_engine.zip" (881k) that you could
>> download from this forum thread:
>> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26101
>>
>> Many, many thanks in advance!
>>
>> Alejandro




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