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I need to place some Logic (mac) files on a site for various people 
to download.

I have found that if these are downloaded on PC the extension .txt 
is added.

If downloaded on a mac the files can no longer be opened in Logic, 
but they need to be imported.

I presume this is a problem with the server and I then tried 
stuffing files using Aladdin Dropstuff and uploading a .sit file.

This works except that when unstuffed there are two Logic song files 
(eg file and file.1)

can anybody shed some light on what is causing this?

Thanks

Pete Thomas

www.petethomas.co.uk

On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 01:09  PM, Pete Thomas wrote:

> This works except that when unstuffed there are two Logic song files
> (eg file and file.1)
>
> can anybody shed some light on what is causing this?
>

	You might be double clicking on the sit file. I have a programmable 
Logitech mouse, and even if I click once on my right button (set to 
double click) I get this exact behavior.

George

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On a fine day, 06-07-2003, Pete Thomas wrote:

>I need to place some Logic (mac) files on a site for various people
>to download.
>I have found that if these are downloaded on PC the extension .txt
>is added.
>
>If downloaded on a mac the files can no longer be opened in Logic,
>but they need to be imported.
>
>I presume this is a problem with the server and I then tried
>stuffing files using Aladdin Dropstuff and uploading a .sit file.

This is not a server problem.  MacOS is the only OS that attaches a 
so-called Type & Creator to files, so the OS knows which file belongs 
to which application. This info is stored in the resource fork of the 
file, which is a Mac-only construct.  So as soon as you put a Mac 
file on a non-Mac system, you lose the Type/Creator info, and thus, 
when getting the file back on a Mac, it shows up as a generic file 
and not e.g. a Logic song -- hence the need to Import instead of Open 
the file.

>This works except that when unstuffed there are two Logic song files
>(eg file and file.1)

This is what happens when Stuffit extracts a file with the same name 
as a file that's already present.  I.e. if the archive contains 
'file', and the directory containing the archive also contains a 
'file', then unpacking the archive will create 'file.1' in order to 
avoid a naming conflict.

If what you upload are Logic songs and you want them to be available 
to PC users as well, you should do 2 things:

1. Have all filenames end in .lso (so PC users can double-click the 
file to launch Logic)
2a. Pack the files as .zip archives instead of .sit (Stuffit Expander 
can unpack zip as well), or
2b. Make 2 archives available, zip and sit, for the 2 platforms (.zip 
files lose the Type & Creator since it's not a native Mac packing 
format, so for Mac users a .sit file is more convenient)

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