Ownership and Permissions on emailed files

[Ian Sights]

I'm following up on my own post.
Yesterday I drove out to the same printer having trouble with another 
of my files and found out first hand what the situation was.
I had been getting messages through a sales rep rather than from the 
operator directly. ARgH!
It turns out that they are downloading onto one machine and then 
immediately copying the files via their network to another workstation 
to work on them. All running OS 8.6.
Something in the file causes the finder to say that the file can't be 
moved because it is copy protected. This is an SEA created with 
Dropstuff 6.5 under 10.2.2.
He didn't think to double click the SEA and save the files to the other 
workstation, which worked perfectly when I tried it.
A flaw in data transmission? A problem with OS 8.6? Dropstuff setting 
some bit that 8.6 sees as copy protection?
It's not a huge deal since I've shown them a way to work with any files 
I might send in the future, but it is odd.

Thanks for the help.

Ian


> On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:45  PM, Ian Sights wrote:
>
>> Does any OS other than X check the Ownership and Permissions of a
>> file? I emailed a file to a printer and they forwarded it to the
>> people actually making the pens and I got the message back that the
>> file was read only.
>
> Did they try opening as Read Only, then using Save As... to save the
> file somewhere else? In many cases this fixes the problem, particularly
> where files think they are (or really are) a template.
>
> -Mike