Where are my attachments and Global Scripts?

[James Sentman]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Bill Husler wrote:

> Help,
>   I've been wanting to move XTension to a different machine and  
> figured switching to the new Beta would be a good time. I quit  
> XTension, tarred up the directory, scped it over to the new system,  
> untarred it, move the cables, fired it up, adjusted the serial  
> ports and it came up and has all my devices, but no Global Script  
> or Attachment - not good. I tried the import function and navigated  
> to the "backup" it made and can see all the global scripts, but  
> they are greyed out.
> Bill


XTension still makes use of resource forks in several of those files,  
especially scripts. Tar doesn't preserve those. If you want to stuff  
them up from the command line use the ditto command with these options:

ditto -c -k -rsrc /path/to/XTension\ Database output.zip

and then move that. That creates the same sort of zip that the finder  
does when creating an archive. You can just use "open" to uncompress  
it and it will uncompress.

dont export/import your stuff, the beta will convert the necessary  
things in the database the first time you run it against them.

-James