ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) (02/25/86)
I recently came across the following infuriating bug in ResEdit 1.0D5: Copy a resource from an existing file (any resource should do). Create a new file at the top level on your HFS disk and paste the resource into it. Close, save, quit back to the Finder. Move the new file into a folder, then go back into ResEdit. Open the folder and open the file. It *appears* to be empty, but you're actually looking at another newly-created file of the same name at the top directory level. It will be visible in the disk window when you exit ResEdit again. I suspect that this problem involves files which lack certain attributes (no type or creator? _SetFInfo never called?). Assigning a file type and creator to the file using ResEdit doesn't seem to work at all. I suppose FEdit 3.5 would be a help here, but John Mitchell cashed my check a month ago and hasn't sent any software.