Re: -8850 error from info for
Re: -8850 error from info for
- Subject: Re: -8850 error from info for
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:27:13 -0700
At 12:14 -0600 6/27/2001, John McElwain wrote:
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I have, somewhat suddenly, found my scripts producing -8850 errors on info
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for commands. The error can be triggered consistently by some folders. The
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error seems random, but is repeatable. Most folders will be processed
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without problems, but another folder will consistently produce the error.
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These folders are not large nor do they contain many items. An example is
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the Utilities folder (5 items, 1.9 Mb). This folder consistently errors
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with the simplest script, e.g.
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on open thisItem
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info for thisItem
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end open
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What is doubly odd is that on my second partition, I have the identical
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folder. This second Utilities folder does not produce an error.
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Searching my archive of postings, I find several similar posting: one
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yesterday, one in January and one at the end of March. There was a response
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from Chris Nebel from AppleScript Engineering...
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> It's a UTC underflow error -- you get it when trying to convert a time too
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> close to midnight Jan 1, 1904 GMT to local time. You wouldn't be using
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>"info
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> for" to look at a file on a Unix file system, would you? There's a
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>known bug
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> about that, but I didn't think anyone would hit it in the real world.
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I have no NT or Unix files. I am using OS 9.1. Any ideas.
Check both the creation and modification dates on each file in the problem
folder (including the "Icon<return>" file). One (or more) of them probably
has a bad time close to the start of Jan 1, 1904 (possibly a date in early
2040 instead).
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA