Re: WebDAV & FrameMaker Question

["Russ Wyllie" <russ_wyllie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Aiken replied directly to me with a suggestion: the "resource 
fork" files usually aren't too important, and it might be possible to 
simply delete them.

I tried deleting the resource fork files, and the FrameMaker files (as 
well as the imported graphic files) are behaving fine without them. I 
can check out and check in FrameMaker files and graphic files just fine.

-Russ

On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 10:12  AM, Russ Wyllie wrote:
> Our department is looking into using the new WebDAV features in 
> FrameMaker 7 to implement a simple checkout/checkin setup to manage 
> files. So far, it looks really promising, but FrameMaker exhibits one 
> annoying little problem.
>
> Our WebDAV server is hosted on Mac OS X Server, and we're using 
> FrameMaker 7 on Macs. For every file on the server, the Mac file 
> system creates a separate file that begins with a period and an 
> underline character, which I presume is a Mac "resource fork" file. 
> For example, if my WebDAV server contains a file named procedures.fm, 
> there is also a file named ._procedures.fm.
>
> The problem is that the WebDAV server contains a lot of FrameMaker 
> files, and all the "resource fork" files are sorted to the top of 
> "Open from Server" dialog box that writers use to check out files. 
> Writers have to scroll past all these files to get to the actual 
> FrameMaker files that they need to check out.
>
> So my question is, does anyone know how to get rid of these files? My 
> hunch is that this problem may be solvable in one of two ways:
>
> * Client side fix: Some way of setting FrameMaker to hide the resource 
> fork files so that they don't show up in the in the "Open from Server" 
> dialog box. (This is how Goliath, another WebDAV client application on 
> the Mac, seems to deal with this problem. It has a preference option 
> to not display hidden files.)
>
> * Server side fix: Some way setting the WebDAV server not to generate 
> the resource fork files in the first place.
>
> Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks for your help.
>
> -Russ Wyllie
>


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