Re: [AS]Re: Error -8850
Re: [AS]Re: Error -8850
- Subject: Re: [AS]Re: Error -8850
- From: Phil Burk <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:17:02 -0500
Chris,
Thanks for the response. Funny, I'm not doing any of the sort. I'm just
comparing the contents of one text document against the contents of another.
That's where I receive the error... Odd that this bug would show up there.
Phil
on 3/27/01 12:05 AM, Chris Nebel at email@hidden wrote:
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Phil Burk wrote:
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> I keep getting an error of type -8850 while running a script to copy a large
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> quantity of files (with corresponding large file sizes) to two destinations.
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> The duplication of the files occurs OK but when the script checks the log
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> files generated from the copy process it errors out.
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> What is a type -8850 error? Anyone know?
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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 "info
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for" to look at a file on a Unix file system, would you? There's a 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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--Chris Nebel
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AppleScript Engineering
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