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Gregory Weston  
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 More options Apr 30 2008, 6:02 pm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:02:56 -0400
Local: Wed, Apr 30 2008 6:02 pm
Subject: Re: PackageMaker corrupting files?
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 "mattdor...@gmail.com" <mattdor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having some major problems with PackageMaker and I have some clues
> that might help figure out what's going on. I have an app I created
> from an Applescript, I saved it as an application. Using "Get Info" in
> Finder tells me that it's 60 KB. Using Terminal "ls -l" tells me that
> the exact same app is 13780 bytes large... that's the first strange
> part

ls doesn't show you the size of the resource fork.

> (apps created with applescript apparently aren't folders like
> regular apps).

"Regular" apps may or may not be packages. Script Editor gives you an
explicit choice between an app and an app-package. The latter will be
native on x86, the former is always PPC.

> And any ideas why it's copying an apparently
> corrupt file to the /Applications folder?

IIRC, PackageMaker creates documents that by default have "Discard
Resource Forks" turned on. Look at the Contents tab of your pmproj file.
Alternatively, changing your saved script to an app package instead of
just an app might also solve the issue. I suspect it would, but don't
know for sure.

G

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