Latest old version that doesn't require Intel chip

[James Sentman]

The “_MACOSX” folder is what is created by the file system when there are mac only resources in a zip file. Decompressing them into a system that doesn’t support that results in those files. They should be generally hidden from the user and if using a sharing system like Samba or AppleFileSharing.  Since the archive with that version of XTension in it was created with those versions of the OS I am surprised that it shows them to you unless you are uncompressing it via a samba share?

If you uncompress while VNC’ed or directly connected to the machine does it do the same? 

While there are potentially numerous issues of bringing a really old database forward this is not one I’ve heard of before. I can imagine it would happen if you decompressed the file from a modern machine on a drive mounted from the older Mac I can’t imagine any other reason they wouild appear unless you were decompressing them on a Windows machine or something. The resource fork parts are important to those versions and that is the part that would be given those names. The whole reason of having that version is that versions newer than that completely locked me out of dealing with resource forks where the scripts used to be saved, on a modern version of MacOS that is indeed what you would see, but you should not see that on the machine and version that you’re running locally. That is confusing.

Did you expand the file on the G4 cube? Or on a modern mac and then moved to the other? Or on a modern mac with the remote drive mounted via file sharing? If so please try downloading the file and expanding it on the G4 cube itself and see if the results are different.


> On Aug 9, 2020, at 12:03 AM, Christian Boyce <macman at christianboyce.com> wrote:
> 
> When I downloaded version 854 it expanded into two items. One item was XTension, version 854, with the usual XTension icon. The other was a folder called “_MACOSX” with a plain-icon app in there, also called XTension, 112 KB. 
> 
> I tried opening the real-icon one and it bounced once then quit. No error message. A restart of the Mac didn’t solve it. Maybe 10.3.9 is not new enough to run it.
> 
> I don’t know what the “ _MACOSX” folder is about but maybe that’s a clue to you.

Thanks,
 James


James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com




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