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David Scott
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland
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 Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:30 am Post subject: How does PowerCADD6 recognise files? |
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I've e-mailed Mike Cleveland with some notes on this one, but if anyone else can help, please advise. I've been having a lot of problems with saving to a Novell Server using OSX, and the Novell OSX IP client. All my files were seen ok in OS9 with the Novell OS9 client, but in X all PowerCADD files appear as Unix files unless they have a .PC5 extension, and these do have a PowerCAD icon. However, neither file can be opened using PowerCADD unless I use a utility like FileInfo to assign type and creator. Also I've been getting a number of corrupt saves, where all I end up with is a zero K file with the same name as the original file, but with a trash icon. Fortunately these were backed up.
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Rob C
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: PowerCADD file extension? |
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I've wondered and asked without answer what extension PC files should have in OSX as I thought they were a necessariy aspect of OSX files. Everyother application I've used in OSX adds a file extension.
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Jeff Snyder
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
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Location: Bryn Mawr, PA
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: Re: How does PowerCADD6 recognise files? |
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| David Scott wrote: | I've e-mailed Mike Cleveland with some notes on this one, but if anyone else can help, please advise. I've been having a lot of problems with saving to a Novell Server using OSX, and the Novell OSX IP client. All my files were seen ok in OS9 with the Novell OS9 client, but in X all PowerCADD files appear as Unix files unless they have a .PC5 extension, and these do have a PowerCAD icon. However, neither file can be opened using PowerCADD unless I use a utility like FileInfo to assign type and creator. Also I've been getting a number of corrupt saves, where all I end up with is a zero K file with the same name as the original file, but with a trash icon. Fortunately these were backed up.
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David, Have you tried to control/click on a typical file, selecting "Open With" and setting PowerCadd as the default? Should train the OS how to deal with that file type.
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David Scott
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Jeff,
I tried that, but when PowerCADD tries to open the file I get the "This file can not be opened by PowerCADD or the Translator XTNLs" message.
It seems that no matter what you call a PowerCADD file, with or without file extension codes, the application has a look at the file type and creator info, and if it can't find a Pd%4 file type it just gives up immediately without trying. The trouble is that in a non-HFS volume, OS9 and OSX stores that info in different locations, and a file saved by OS9 is an orphan in OSX unless the App will have a go if it recognises a .- nice flowers - extension of it's own kind. (If you save a new file in a non-HFS volume with OSX all is well. but the file is then an orphan to OS9 users)
Engineered Software really should addess this issue and automatically save files with say a .PCD file extension which will evermore be recognised as a file that the App will try to open.
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Jeff Snyder
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Thanks for that information. I will probably face a similar problem with our Windows Server which will be the file server for OSX, OS9 and Windows clients.
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