Re: -8850 error from info for
Re: -8850 error from info for
- Subject: Re: -8850 error from info for
- From: "John McElwain" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:14:23 -0600
I have, somewhat suddenly, found my scripts producing -8850 errors on info
for commands. The error can be triggered consistently by some folders. The
error seems random, but is repeatable. Most folders will be processed
without problems, but another folder will consistently produce the error.
These folders are not large nor do they contain many items. An example is
the Utilities folder (5 items, 1.9 Mb). This folder consistently errors
with the simplest script, e.g.
on open thisItem
info for thisItem
end open
What is doubly odd is that on my second partition, I have the identical
folder. This second Utilities folder does not produce an error.
Searching my archive of postings, I find several similar posting: one
yesterday, one in January and one at the end of March. There was a response
from Chris Nebel from AppleScript Engineering...
>
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 "info
>
for" to look at a file on a Unix file system, would you? There's a known bug
>
about that, but I didn't think anyone would hit it in the real world.
I have no NT or Unix files. I am using OS 9.1. Any ideas.