Subject: Re: Apple Double?
From: Bill Carlson (wcarlson@vh.org)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 17:35:14 EDT
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> At 15:01 Uhr -0500 03.04.2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
>
> >I'm at 1.42b+asun2.1.3 on Solaris 2.6. I was having all sorts of problems
> >with clients reading .AppleDouble files (from a 1.42.b+asun2.1.0 setup),
> >so I decided to cleanse the file system by removing all the .AppleDouble
> >files, figuring they would be recreated, no big deal.
>
> If you don't have any programs, this is okay.
I'll store that away for future reference...Anyone have a pointer to
something that explains what is going on with these files? I thought they
basically fulfilled the role of "associations" under ol' Windoze, but
there must be more to it than that....TIA
>
> >Well, that went ok and works, users have to open their files within the
> >application for the document, no big deal. However, the .AppleDouble files
> >created are bogus, I've been getting the following in syslog:
> >afpd[17612]: ad_refresh: can't parse AppleDouble header.
> >afpd[17084]: ad_refresh: can't parse AppleDouble header.
>
> Are you sure that they have been recreated at this point?
Yep, files are sitting there...
>
> >I've also noticed that the icon given to the file is not that of the
> >application used to modify/save the file.
>
> If there are no .AppleDouble files, files are mapped via extension mappings in an AppleVolumes File. Have a look into this.
That triggered an AH HA! but turned out to be nothing...:(
Bill Carlson
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