EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 06-07-2003, Pete Thomas wrote:

>I need to place some Logic (mac) files on a site for various people
>to download.
>I have found that if these are downloaded on PC the extension .txt
>is added.
>
>If downloaded on a mac the files can no longer be opened in Logic,
>but they need to be imported.
>
>I presume this is a problem with the server and I then tried
>stuffing files using Aladdin Dropstuff and uploading a .sit file.

This is not a server problem.  MacOS is the only OS that attaches a 
so-called Type & Creator to files, so the OS knows which file belongs 
to which application. This info is stored in the resource fork of the 
file, which is a Mac-only construct.  So as soon as you put a Mac 
file on a non-Mac system, you lose the Type/Creator info, and thus, 
when getting the file back on a Mac, it shows up as a generic file 
and not e.g. a Logic song -- hence the need to Import instead of Open 
the file.

>This works except that when unstuffed there are two Logic song files
>(eg file and file.1)

This is what happens when Stuffit extracts a file with the same name 
as a file that's already present.  I.e. if the archive contains 
'file', and the directory containing the archive also contains a 
'file', then unpacking the archive will create 'file.1' in order to 
avoid a naming conflict.

If what you upload are Logic songs and you want them to be available 
to PC users as well, you should do 2 things:

1. Have all filenames end in .lso (so PC users can double-click the 
file to launch Logic)
2a. Pack the files as .zip archives instead of .sit (Stuffit Expander 
can unpack zip as well), or
2b. Make 2 archives available, zip and sit, for the 2 platforms (.zip 
files lose the Type & Creator since it's not a native Mac packing 
format, so for Mac users a .sit file is more convenient)

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