Old 09-17-2010, 05:49 PM   #1
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Default FYI - running AATranslator in OSX

For anyone converting sessions to ProTools or any other format that uses AppleDouble files (files with a resource & data fork) read on...

AATranslator is only written in Windows so the Mac user needs to have Wine installed to run it in OSX.

AppleDouble files are written as 2 separate files on file systems that do not support multiple resource forks like FAT32. If OSX sees a file coming from such a system, it automatically puts the 2 parts back together.

Since AATranslator was developed on a fat32 system, it saves the file in 2 parts. If you run AATranslator in OSX on HFS+, since the file system is already HFS+ the automatic conversion doesn't get triggered. You must manually put the 2 files back together.
Do this:
If the 2 files are in ~/Desktop/SessionFiles
enter the following command line
$ dot_clean --keep=dotbar ~/Desktop/SessionFiles

You will now have the single AppleDouble file.

edit:
I wrote a script to attach to a folder to automate this.

the script:
on adding folder items to this_folder
do shell script ("dot_clean --keep=dotbar " & quoted form of POSIX path of this_folder)
end adding folder items to

just save the script (I named it "AppleDouble dot_clean") in /your HD/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts
create a folder to use for output from AATranslator
attach the script to said folder (it will be in the menu if you put it where I said above)
go here for instructions on folder action scripts: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/folderactions.html
now the files are automatically joined every time new ones appear in the folder

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Old 09-18-2010, 06:00 AM   #2
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Serr has access to one of our beta versions which produces PT5 session files for the mac.

We had experienced much angst and frustration with the mac conversion and this AppleDoubleFile thing blindsided us (who makes this stuff up?).

Many thanks to serr for finally identifying and sorting out this nagging problem.

We will be including his directions in the doco which goes out with the final release.

Well done.
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