[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14644) Mac client not properly handling saved game files on case-sensitive HFS+

["Nathan Brazil" <nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14644 >


On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:42 PM, Chris Snook wrote:

>
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14644 >
>
> Platform: Mac OS X 10.4.3 (Tiger) with case-sensitive HFS+ file system
> (this is non-default), Apple X server
> Binary: sourceforge download 2.0.7 Mac OS X client
>
>      When I attempt to save or load a game, none of the saved games
> (autosave or manual save) show up.  When I click "browse" all the
> .sav.gz files show up as expected.  When I try to save overwriting an
> existing file, the game is not actually saved, though no error is
> given.  I did not have this problem with the 2.0.2 client on this
> system, so perhaps some of the changes made since support for Panther
> was dropped have somehow broken proper game saving on case-sensitive
> HFS+.  Or it could be something else entirely, but the case-sensitive
> filesystem is the only thing that comes to mind as abnormal about my
> system, and strikes me as a likely explanation for files not showing
> up in the list.

Something about this changed in the interim.  It has nothing to do w/  
case-sensitive HFS+, as I have the same problem on my system, and it  
is not case-sensitive HFS+.  Bug #14633 seems to mention something  
about this...

>      On a possibly unrelated note, I've noticed that when I load
> games, I often see yellow wavy lines above my workers and engineers.
> Some of these workers and/or engineers definitely did not exist at the
> time that I saved, though they're showing up in the field where I've
> had workers at some previous point, so it may have actually saved some
> data when trying to overwrite saved game files on some occasions, and
> effectively copied the workers an extra time.
>
>      If there are any tests you'd like me to run, or any more system
> information you'd like, please let me know.

I have not seen this behavior before.  Can you post a saved game file?