.RDCs won't open unless...

[Noah Kadner]

Here's a weird one. If I double-click on any RDC on my hard drive in OSX it asks me to select a default application. I can only open it by right-click show package contents. Any suggestions what I need to do to tell it to treat RDC like a folder again?

-Noah

[Alexander R. Taylor]

If you want to do it manually on a per-file basis, and you have Developer Tools installed you can run this in the terminal to fix it...

/Developer/usr/bin/SetFile -a b path/to/filename

This is case sensitive - if you change the -a b to -a B, it will change back into a bundle. That will set the file (or folder in this case) to not act like a bundle.

Alexander

[Noah Kadner]

No way to do it globally? This is on all RDC's now- can't open them without show package contents. Can't get to proxies or R3Ds.

Noah

[Alexander R. Taylor]

What RED/Apple/3rd Party Applications have you installed - it's not making .rdc folders into packages on my machine, and I only have the Final Cut Suite on mine, so it's either one of the other apps that has .rdc listed as a bundle, or they're getting marked one by one in some other way when they're being created.

[Noah Kadner]

Pretty much all of them- for the book. :) Yeah I'm sure that some app I've installed has flipped a pref somewhere- question is how to flip it back.

-Noah

[Alexander R. Taylor]

I'll do some testing later on my system and see if I can find the culprit in one of the red utilities...

Alexander

[Alexander R. Taylor]

Do you dump all these .rdf folders in the same folder somewhere or do you have more of an organizational system? If we can't find the culprit, I could write a folder action script where you drop the files into one folder where they automatically get changed back into folders, then you can move them anywhere you want after that...

Alexander

[Noah Kadner]

Each is still in it's original RDM. Just started happening on its own.

Noah

[Alexander R. Taylor]

Okay -I installed all the red apps and none of them seemed to cause this out-of-the-box, so I put together a little script to fix them. Get the file from www.artechproductions.com/rdcFix.zip (it's 310k and I can't upload more than 90k as an attachment), and then drop the affected bundle onto the Bundle->Folder.app.

The source automator workflow is there also, along with the SetFile program that needs to be in /Developer/usr/bin/ (if you don't have developer tools installed already).

If you could, could you open terminal, and drag the GetFileInfo into the terminal window followed by one of the .rdc bundles - that should hopefully give us some insight to the root cause of this behavior...

Alexander

[Noah Kadner]

Thanks for trying but it had no effect. :(

Last login: Mon Jun 8 07:58:03 on console
/GetFileInfo /Users/superuser/Desktop/RED_Reel/RED_Footage/RED\ DRIVE/C001_C001_1114BH.RDC
directory: "/Users/superuser/Desktop/RED_Reel/RED_Footage/RED DRIVE/C001_C001_1114BH.RDC"
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 11/14/2008 02:37:12
modified: 05/26/2009 20:41:26





-Noah

[Alexander R. Taylor]

Hmm... The attributes say it shouldn't be showing up as a package... Have you tried another user account on the same machine? If so, it's prolly some sort of corruption in the Finder prefs for your user account...

Also, in terminal do: ls -al /Users/superuser/Desktop/RED_Reel/RED_Footage/RED\ DRIVE/C001_C001_1114BH.RDC

It's possible there's something weird that's causing it to think it's a legacy package...

Alexander

[Alexander R. Taylor]

Just came across something that might help...

http://www.macworld.com/article/141462/2009/06/fixicons.html

It's the same service that deals with weather folders show up as packages or not. Can't hurt...

Alexander

[Rainer Fritz]

/RED\ DRIVE/

that looks weird... is it the camera mag ? or a copy of that ?