Where are my attachments and Global Scripts?

[Bill Husler]

Thanks - that was it. I remember someone explaining that once before  
(probably you), but unfortunately, I didn't remember that when I was  
struggling with it.
  Bill

On Jan 14, 2006, at 9:19 PM, James Sentman wrote:

>
> 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