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Re: RTFD file corruption




On Aug 31, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Jeff LaMarche wrote:

I'm guessing that the problem is not actually in your application, but rather in the use of the iPod shuffle, which uses FAT32 (the "old" Windows file format). It is case insensitive, but is supposed to be case preserving (just like Classic Mac OS). So, for example, in FAT32, if you save a file as "hello.txt", and later asked it for "hello.TXT" it would happily give you the file.

No, even though FAT32 is SUPPOSED to be case preserving, I've found with my shuffle (and other thumb drives as well) that it is not. My files often end up in all caps, or at least the extension does. I'm not sure the reason, though it might have something to do with the dual file naming (IIRC - old style 8+3 files, plus the longer Joliet-style introduced in Win95 are stored separately, with the 8 +3 filename being the actual filename, and the longer name being just a display name... but I could be wrong on this, I don't delve any further into Windows tech than I need to).


It seems like a pretty good guess that the problem has to do with some file system that the document has gone through. Jesse, see if you can reproduce this with TextEdit, by writing out an RTFD document and moving it from one file system to another, and see if the resulting document will still open in TextEdit. If you have a reproducible case, definitely file a bug. (If you don't have a reproducible case, you might still file a bug, but it would be more difficult for us to act on it.)


Douglas Davidson
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