Re: USB flash disk
Re: USB flash disk
- Subject: Re: USB flash disk
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:46:26 -0700
At 2:59 PM -0400 6/22/03, Jim Rich wrote:
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Dear list,
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I have been using USB flash disks recently for transferring profiles
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between Mac OS9, OSX, Windows 2000 and XP. It sort of works.
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1. When I take a profile from a Windows computer and place it on the Flash
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disk ( using the factory disk formatting) to transfer it to a Mac OS9 or X
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system the file type and creator codes break.
the type and creator codes don't exist on Windows (even if the profile came from a Mac originally) so you will always have this problem.
We have little drop utilities on our site here:
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http://www.chromix.com/ColorSmarts/smartnote.cxsa?snid=441>
one for OS 9 and one for X that will fix the problem.
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2. When I take a profile from my OSX computer and place it on the Flash
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disk to transfer it to a Mac OS9 system the file type and creator codes
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break.
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it is possible to have profiles that have the ".icc" extension on X and NO type and creator codes. OS X will see them as profiles but 9 will not - see #1
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However, when I go from OS9 to OSX with a profile the transfer process
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works.
makes sense as the 9 codes are maintained and X likes them.
Regards,
Steve
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