[Adium-devl] Ticket #4501

[Augie Fackler]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:11 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> On Dec 07, 2007, at 06:02:53, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>> How about instead a bundle, we just use an extended attribute?
>>
>> What would this be useful for, besides continuing the progress
>> display in the FT window across multiple runs of Adium?
>
>
> It wouldn't affect the UI -- it would just signal that the file is
> incomplete and if it is not being written to, should be swept up  
> later.
>
> Really, I'm wondering why we don't just Trash the file when the
> transfer fails.

We explicity *don't* trash the file for the purpose of resumes. That's  
why I want a bundle - so the user doesn't have half-completed  
transfers sitting around waiting to be opened (and possibly corrupted  
via "repair") but still resumable.

Augie

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> -Colin
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