Subject: Re: HELP: QX document damaged
From: bryan stalcup (bryan@stalcup.net)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 05:16:26 EST
Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday was not a good day for netatalk/Quark. One of the
> QX documents has been damaged. The document has been
> created before and yesterday a user wanted to make minor
> corrections just before printing. The document has been
> opened OK, changes done, but then, when he wanted to save
> the document back, MAC reported error -50. As this is
> happening from time to time, user went on to do some other
> things and just left QX running as it was. Then his MAC
> wasn't responding anymore (it crashed for I don't know what
> reason) and he had to reset it. From this point on it was
> not possible to open the document anymore.
>
Dejan,
i'm definitely not qualified to give you the technical answer here, but a
few thoughts:
i support a network of about 15 macs for a printing company. my wife is
also a graphic designer with several macs here at home. i have had a linux
server at home running redhat 5.2, 6.0, and now 6.1 with netatalk+asun2.1.0
through 2.1.3 for over a year and a half. i have NOT installed a
netatalk-based server at the printing company.
it has been quite a learning experience. i have had similar problems with
QuarkXPress files getting eaten. at this point it is standard practice here
at home to save important QuarkXPress documents to the local hard drive as
often as every other save (and that's with frequent saving). netatalk is
not yet perfect. in a high pressure production environment, this is
obviously not acceptable. however, netatalk is free.
i would recommend you seriously consider purchasing Helios' appletalk
implementation for linux. knowing prepress, you can't afford to have these
kinds of quirks. netatalk is a general purpose implementation, but Helios
is targeting our market specifically, and they have long ago worked through
the bugs/quirks in prepress software packages. i'm sure netatalk will catch
up at some point, but in the meantime, can you afford to lose files?
Bryan Stalcup
bryan@stalcup.net
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