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Re: [unison-users] AppleDouble trouble

Hello,

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:45:32PM -0000, kur.tell wrote:
> I try to sync between my Mac (2.27.55) and a Unix fileserver
> (2.27.57) via ssh. When I sync a folder for the first time
> everything works fine. When I change a file on the Mac,
> synchronization still works fine. But when I connect to the
> fileserver via smb, change a file and then try to sync, I get a
> "Error: Malformed AppleDouble '...' (bad filler)".
>
> So it seems that unison saves the AppleDouble in a different format
> than native Mac does, or might it be related to the smb connection?

This bug is finally fixed in the subversion repository, for Unison
2.27 (stable), 2.32 (beta), and the developper version.
The issue was that Unison was following closely the AppleDouble
specification, but Mac OS X produces not quite standard AppleDouble
files.

Thank you for your bug report!

-- Jerome



Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:13 pm

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Hello everybody, slowly I get unison to do what I want... thanks for all the effort that has been put into giving unison to the open source community! I try to...
kur.tell Offline Send Email Feb 16, 2008
7:46 pm

Unison's AppleDouble code was written from Apple's spec, so my guess is that smb is the problem. But you haven't given enough details to tell. For example,...
Trevor Jim
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Feb 19, 2008
4:43 pm

Hello, ... This bug is finally fixed in the subversion repository, for Unison 2.27 (stable), 2.32 (beta), and the developper version. The issue was that Unison...
Jerome Vouillon
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Jun 19, 2009
2:14 pm

... When will we get a new stable version (or candidate)? I looks to ne that there are quit a lot of new things in hte current version... Thanks, ALain...
Alain Mouette
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Jun 19, 2009
7:41 pm

I've just released updated versions of (the sources of) both beta (2.32) and stable (2.27) versions. Binaries should appear in the next week or two. -...
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Jun 19, 2009
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