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OS X can't read the Comments
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Attachments come into a designated folder on an OS 9.0.4 system, Eudora 5.1. When I view info for the file in the comments field contains the sender and subject line of the email it belongs to....this is great.
The problem is that when moved across the network to an OS X system, the comments no longer contain that information--when viewed by X, 9 can still see it. Optimally, I need to be able to retain that information so that it can be viewed in the Photoshop browser or another thumbnail/database program such as Extensis Portfolio, along with camera info, etc.
Is there a way that I can configure X to still read the old file info? i'm assuming it has to do with the old resource fork not being read in the same way, or at all.
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I think the problem is moving them across the network. Comments are attached to files via the file system, and are not part of the file itself. I would imagine (but may be wrong) that they are being lost because just the file is copied across the network.
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OS X and OS 9 store comments in different places. I can't recall off the top of my head why this is the case, but they may have been stored in the desktop database. I actually made a little tool once that copied OS 9 comments into the OS X Finder field (because I didn't want to lose the URLs of all the files I'd downloaded). I'll put it up somewhere once I track it down.
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Originally posted by Chuckit:
OS X and OS 9 store comments in different places. I can't recall off the top of my head why this is the case, but they may have been stored in the desktop database. I actually made a little tool once that copied OS 9 comments into the OS X Finder field (because I didn't want to lose the URLs of all the files I'd downloaded). I'll put it up somewhere once I track it down.
there was just another thread bemoaning the fact that the comment field is underused....i totally agree. All these fancy metadata fields available...yet portfolio programs and the photoshop browser can't read the original comments tag.
this little tool you made, would it make the original comments field something that the fancy programs could read?
regarding the other comment, I did a test where i moved and copied the file around a few times....the OS 9 systems could still see the comments. OS X could not.
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Originally posted by th3ph17:
this little tool you made, would it make the original comments field something that the fancy programs could read?
It just read the OS 9 comments field and rewrote it in OS X. If an application reads OS X comments, it would read them.
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Chuck
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