Qual Xpress cannot see files and folders on network share

[sebjenkins]

Hi,

We have a problem on our Macs wherby when we have a specific network share mounted on out desktops and then do a File->Open from with Quark Xpress (v4.11), we select the network share but all that can be seen in there from Quark is some Quark documents. All other files and folders are not displayed.
Yet through the Finder this network share has loads of other files and folders in it.

This is happening on all our Macs running OSX 10.3.x with Classic and Quark Xpress v4.11
We have tried connecting to this file share using diferent methods including by IP alone and also with afp:// and smb:// but same result everytime.

If we connect to other file shares this is NOT a problem and all files and folders are visible.

Anybody got any suggestions ?

 

[MoRod]

It's not a problem with your Mac. It is Quark's (v4) inability to see anything other than "readable" documents. "Readable" meaning QuarkXpress files.

With Quark 6 you can choose to see "readable document" or "all documents". Choosing the "all documents" allows you to see all files, though you can only open the Quark files.

 

[jmgalvin]

You’re accessing the server via X, then trying to access the file via an OS 9 app running in 9. If the server is not mac, that makes things even more confusing.

It he docs were created on macs under Q4, they probably don’t have the QXD file extension. On a mac server they’d be identified via the forks. Don’t know about another server.

There are several things you can do as a test. Identify a Q$ doc that won’t open and see if it has the .QXD extension. If no, add that and see if it’s now recognized. If that works, there’s a prebuilt script in the Applescript folder for adding extensions to docs for OSX to recognize.

If it still does not work, try booting into 9 on one of the machines (hopefully you have some machine that will dual boot). See if you can access and open the files with that – as you were probably doing pre OSX. If so, it’s definitely related to the X/9/Server combo.

I could suggest that you upgrade to 6.5 but, from what I know, a lot of people are having a lot of problems with Q6.5 docs on servers of any platform.

Since you can see the docs in Finder, it might be necessary to drag them to a folder on the desktop or something, do the work and send them back to the server that way.