Re: BIZARRE File Type returned...sometimes!
Re: BIZARRE File Type returned...sometimes!
- Subject: Re: BIZARRE File Type returned...sometimes!
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:57:35 -0700
On 6/30/2004 12:52, "Zachary Smestad" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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On Jun 29, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Michael Tompsett wrote:
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> I m running this script to search through folders and delete quark
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> files.
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> Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It falls down when all FILE
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> TYPEs are wrongly reported as being: "x?Z" rather "XDOC" or "ESPF" or
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> whatever file type they really are.
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> Sometimes this change takes place halfway though the running of the
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> script (hence the warning if it fails)!
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> Anyway the script is below. Any idea why this is happening? Many Thanks
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> OSX 10.3.4, AS 1.9.3, Script Editor 2.0 (v43)
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> [snip]
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We have just recently seen this issue too. Unfortunately, we were
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trying to delete files that didn't have a "XPR3" creator, so the Quark
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files would be identified as "?r" and be deleted. It's a good thing
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the files could be recreated fairly easily.
Almost sounds as if some errant code stuffed four bytes of UTF-8 into a
place meant for four bytes of bytes.
And the flaw points up the danger of algorithms like "delete this thing if
it doesn't match the things I want to keep" as opposed to
"move the things I want to keep to a different directory, then rename this
directory something like 'deleteme' then rename the new directory to the
name this one had"
Delete is so permanent. ;-)
--John
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