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Article #2308Re: Damaged Resource Fork on Quark file!
From: Paul Durrant
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:00
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In article <199707230107222835292@g-stone.demon.co.uk>, bill@g-stone.demon.co.uk (Bill) wrote: >Hiya, > >After writing a bunch of files to CD recently, it turns out that they >were not wrote 100percent successfully! > >It would seem that the resource fork is damaged but the data fork is >intact!? > >Is there anyway I can verify this and recover the file? Is it possible >to leach the resource fork onto another files data fork and would that >work? > >Any help appreciated cus I dunno, I know nothing! > >Cheers >Bill > >bill@g-stone.demon.co.uk >bill@locust.co.uk <--- mobile phone (8 lines or less) The only thing stored in the resource fork is the preview, AFAIR. (It's possible some XTensions may store data there too.) Just recover the data fork, and set the file type/creator to XDOC/XPRS and they should be fine. Assuming there's no other corruption of the file, of course. Paul Durrant XTensions developer http://www.durrant.demon.co.uk/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: feb82,dee9c4c0934d4cfd X-Google-Attributes: gidfeb82,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,dee9c4c0934d4cfd X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public X-Google-Thread: fb1cd,dee9c4c0934d4cfd X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cd,public From: pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Subject: Re: Damaged Resource Fork on Quark file! Date: 1997/07/23 Message-ID: <AFFC29D196684F59FE@durrant.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 258352467 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: durrant.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.81] References: <199707230107222835292@g-stone.demon.co.uk> Organization: Durrant Software Limited Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac,comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.apps