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Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
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Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa stripping resource forks: does Jaguar fix?
  • From: Kirk Kerekes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:42:50 -0500

On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 12:04 AM, email@hidden wrote:

Now open a TextEdit Rich Text document, and drag the .webloc file to the
document. TextEdit will happily accept the drag, and show the icon -- but
it has in the process stripped all the contents out of the file, because IE
puts the URL in a resource in the resource fork.

Yeah, yeah. They shouldn't be doing that.

FWIW, this is just a standard clipping file created by the OS based on the
flavors IE provides. IE isn't explicitly adding anything to the resource
fork.

Dan


The data is definitely in the resource fork, regardless. Check it out. -- and if the OS/"finder" is putting it there, even worse!

Regardless, this doesn't alter the core point -- that Cocoa _silently_ strips significant portions of user files, discarding data with no notice.
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