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From: korfhage@lanai.cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Some files missing from SFGetFile Dialogs. What's wrong?
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Date: 7 Jan 90 22:55:35 GMT
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Reply-To: korfhage@CS.UCLA.EDU (Willard Korfhage)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Some text files do not appear in the standard open file dialog box, even when
they should. I first noticed it in Textures: some of my files didn't appear
in the scrolling list when I did an open. Using DiskTop, I checked the type,
creator, and various bits for the file, and they were identical to the files
that I could see. Double clicking on the file's icon opened it properly. I
called the folks who make Textures, and we determined that other programs, like
MS Word, couldn't see the files either, even though they had type TEXT. That
seemed to point to Boomerang as the culprit, so using init cdev I disabled all
the inits except the e-machines init and multidisk, and restarted. Still no
luck.

The problem is not that all text files don't appear, just some of them. 
Exactly which ones don't appear seems to be random, not depending upon 
size or date, but it's always the same files that don't appear. Saving the
file from Textures by just doing a "save" doesn't make the file appear, but
if I do a "save as" and give the file a new name, I can see the new file.
I can work around the problem by saving the invisible files under new names
and throwing away the old files, but I would like to know what the 
underlying problem it. Incidentally, duplicating the file in the finder
throwing away the original file and replacing it with the duplicate works, too.

I am running a Mac IIci, system 6.0.4, and the only inits running were
init cdev, the e-machines init, and multidisk.
 
 Willard Korfhage   ARPA : korfhage@pucatt.poly.edu, korfhage@cs.ucla.edu
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