Subject: Re: Applications Show as SimpleText Files and Won't Launch
From: Steven Karel (karelsf@brandeis.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 24 2001 - 19:17:21 EST
Check for the existence of, and the permissions of, the .AppleDouble
folder -- in this case,
/home/programs/.AppleDouble
The type and creator information fo the programs (type 'APPL') is stored
in the .AppleDouble file for the particular program, e.g. in:
/home/programs/.AppleDouble/BBEdit
If the user doesn't have permission to read that file, BBEdit will have
an unknown type, and since there's no file extension to provide a hint,
it'll default to a text file.
steven
Bill Colston wrote:
>
> Everything was going well then....
>
> I created a directory /home/programs, logged into the the volume via the
> Chooser and copied the applications to the programs volume. I tried
> launching programs, ClarisWorks and BBEdit and everything worked great. I
> then added /home/programs to the AppleVolumes.default file so that everyone
> could access the programs volume when then logged in with their account name
> and password. However, when users log in and mounted their personal volume
> and the programs volume, they couldn't launch ClarisWorks or BBEdit as they
> appeared as SimpleText files.
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