Are there compatibility issues with Apple Mac Clients transferring files to Fileman? We uploaded an image file from a Mac (OS 8.5) to Fileman, then downloaded it to the same Mac, and it was unreadable. Universal files such as PDF and JPG were readable on a PC but no longer on the mac.

When trying to upload a program from the mac onto the file manager it does not upload at all. We are not given an error, merely nothing happens.When we did a multiple upload with shockwave installer & a jpeg file, the jpeg file uploaded but the installer did not. When we did a single file upload, when we click the 'upload' button, nothing happens. We browsed again to a pdf file, and the upload button uploaded the file.

In our research we found this info:

"MacBinary and BinHex are common file formats used to transfer Mac OS files over a network. Files transferred using FTP should be encoded in one of these formats, so that Mac OS information (such as resource fork, file type, and creator code) is preserved during transfer. BinHex files are larger and take longer to transfer, but more platforms support BinHex encoding."

It appears that there are compatibility issues with one or both of these formats.

On a side note, Fileman will also change the file name if the file name contains spaces, the spaces get changed to an underscores.



Any thoughts?

casey

Unfortunatelly we haven't done any test on Mac yet, 'cause we don't have a Macintosh here.

Fileman doesn't support for the special characters in file and folder name, so it will replace spaces with an underscores if the file name contains spaces.

TheStone.

B.