The SCALES file is plain text so you should be able to check it with an editor Phil
> Hi Folks, > > Sorry this is slightly off topic. I have an OS X PPC mac mini and I have > noticed some very strange behaviour. When I run scala for one example > the scales file that is produced is exactly 16384 bytes, and when I try > and restore this scala dies. Now running the same scaling job on an > intel iMac the scales file is a few bytes larger and can be read > appropriately. > > This suggests to me that a few bytes are being "lost". > > Weirder still, if I run the *same* job on an external firewire disk on > the ppc mac it works fine and produces a slightly bigger than 16k scales > file. This suggests to me that there is something unhappy about the file > system on this device. This came with OS X 10.3 and an "upgrade" to 10.4 > instead of a 10.4 fresh install, though I have no idea why this would be > a problem. On both machines I am running the job in my home directory... > > Has anyone noticed this behaviour? More usefully - has anyone got any > idea of how to prevent it? > > Thanks, > > Graeme >
