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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

.RDCs won't open unless...

Noah Kadner

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

Alexander
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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