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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Protools5LEGuy on March 10, 2015, 09:20:05 AM

Title: Upload procedures/ guidelines
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on March 10, 2015, 09:20:05 AM

ALL MODERN ONLINE STORAGE FILE FORMATS WILL FU&^CK UP THE RESOURCE FORK (INCLUDING ADRIVE), so all files should be encoded in Mac Binary (in the old days of Mac aware Apache systems this was not the case, they did it for for you); So we inevitably have 2 choices:

1) Encode with Mac Binary (.BIN with stuffIt) and the downloader of the file will un-encode the file (with StuffIt again) and BAM… just like it was :)

OR

2)  Do nothing and explain to the user the original "type" and "creator-codes" and have them use a utility (like "filetype" and fix the values), again, all the Data in the files remains intact no matter what method is used, but the files become unrecognizable to applications (and the Mac OS finder) when the resource fork is stripped

Now, things like ISO Files or toast images are not as important since you can direct the burning software to mount and burn the file by brute force (however, I still .bin them for the newbies so that pretty icons are not lost); but please don't expect the Finder to know what the file is.   

JUST REMEMBER to ENCODE ALREADY BEFORE UPLOADING..


OK, just to clarify... .SIT and .HQX is for making the archive (like a zip file), a compressed or uncompressed version of many files jammed into 1 large file, but it still has nothing to do with the encoding into BIN (Mac Binary)

So to be absolutely as clear as possible...

UPLOADING....

STEP 1:  Create the archive file (.SIT, .BIN, .HQX, .IMG, .TOAST... ect) with StuffIt

STEP 2:  Encode the archive with "Mac Binary" using stuffIt, so an example of the end result will be "FileName.SIT.BIN"

Now upload the file

DOWNLOADING...

STEP 1: Download the wanted File

STEP 2: Un-encode (remove .BIN) with StuffIt

STEP 3: Uncompress or Extract with StuffIt

Title: Re: Upload procedures/ guidelines
Post by: supernova777 on March 10, 2015, 10:43:10 AM

stuffit is easiest..... + most well known

i prefer .img which is just as easy..
drag a folder containing files to diskCopy + it will create a .img file
but of course .img file needs to be converted for alien filesystem transfer to
either .bin or .hqx

hqx is ideal for small files
bin is ideal for everything
these encoding options are built into stuffit deluxe or dropstuff preferences

Title: Re: Upload procedures/ guidelines
Post by: mrhappy on March 10, 2015, 11:27:35 AM

So I guess my patented '.RETARD' won't work then!!! ;D ;D