myannuzzi wrote:
> Schwaighofer Clemens <gul### [at] gullevekorg> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>has anyboday already tried to run Povray 3.6 in Tiger? I tried to start
>>it, but nothing happens at all.
>>
>>I also tried MegaPOV and that starts fine.
>>lg, Clemens
> 
> 
> Here's the problem...sometime after upgrading to Tiger 10.4, then 10.4.1 and
> finally 10.4.2 I began to get Finder message's when I try to add version
> numbers (or any text that contains a period, '.') to a file or folder's
> name, which I do often to help me keep track of updates.  The message goes
> something like "Are you sure you want to add the extension ".<some text>?".
> 
> So, I finally figured out that the Finder did not like to have more than one
> '.' in a file name and whould thus always produce the message.  Now for
> folders this was just an annoyance but did not cause any problems.  Native
> applications in OS X (not Carbon versions) ARE folders of a special kind
> whch have the extention '.app' at the end of thier name, which is usually
> hidden, as you can verify by doing a "Get Info..." on them.
> 
> I also noticed that in the Finder's preferences the option to "Show all file
> extensions" option was gone.  It was there in Panther.  Taking the problem
> at hand here with POVray 3.6, as an example, which I also experienced on
> one Mac but not another  (generic icon, the app's alias had the program
> "manopen"'s icon on it, and doubling-click either brought up the Script
> Editor with know window...):
> 
>    - After unpacking the .sit package, opening the .dmg image, you see the
>       alias is named:
>           POV-Ray Mac 3.6
>       as well as the actual Carbon app in the folder "POV-Ray Mac 3.6
>       Folder) to which it points.
>    - When I did a "Get Info..." on the actual app, the "Hide Extension"
>       checkbox enabled, but unchecked.
>       This should NOT be the case for a Carbon app. It should be unchecked
>       AND disabled (grayed-out).
>    - So I surpmised that somehow the Finder thought this was a OS X app with
>       the extension ".6" instead
>       of ".app" as I verified by adding .app to the name so it would read:
>           POV-Ray Mac 3.6.app
>       However, upon closing the "Get Info..." window, it showed up in the
>       Finder  as:
>           POV-Ray Mac 3.app.6
>     - I  went back to the "Get Info..." window and removed everything at the
>       end of the name that contained '.''s:
>           POV-Ray Mac
>     - The progeam's icon now showed up and it launched fine.
> 
> This Finder behavior was definitely not right.  I have another Mac that I
> just did a fresh Tiger install on, after reformatting the disk, then went
> straight to 10.4.2 with the Combo updater which I downloaded.
> The problem did not occur for POV Ray and I was not getting the Finder
> messages when I added names with '.''s in them to Folders or files.
> 
> So, somewhere in the previous upgrade process something got corrupted.  You
> might try trashing your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file
> and rebooot to see if the problem goes away.  If not you might want to do a
> Archive & Install of Tiger, then download the 10.4.2 Combo updater and use
> it.

You may also file a bug report with Apple about the Finder behavior which is 
certainly incorrect as a "." is a legal characater anywhere and in any 
number in any file or application name.

	Thorsten

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