Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re:
From: a sun (asun@saul7.u.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 13 1998 - 12:33:10 EST
this should probably be a FAQ. could people who maintain such things
add it in? here's a synopsis of the skipping icon problem, the
solution, and why the solution doesn't always work:
1) in os8, apple is now using more bits of the finder info
field than it did before. netatalk can cleverly do file
typing based upon dot suffixes. to do that, they generate
the appropriate creator/type fields and send them
back. unpatched versions of netatalk-1.4b2 assumed that
sticking 0's in this field would be an all right
thing.
result: os8 macs see the incorrect finder info field and
try to update it. as this was a "virtual" field
anyway, it never got updated, resulting in constant
attempts to update.
2) the solution involves allowing os8 to actually go in and
update the finder info while still generating our own
creator/type fields.
3) why doesn't the solution always work? this may be due to a
couple reasons:
a) you're not actually allowed to modify the
appropriate .AppleDouble file. make sure the
.AppleDouble files are modifiable at least long
enough to fix the finder info.
b) the appropriate .AppleDouble file somehow got
scrambled in a way that isn't easily fixed. your
best bet here is to remove the offending
files. hopefully, they shouldn't have any resource
fields as they represent auto-generated info.
-a
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