Box.net Corrupted File Warning

I'm not sure of the parameters of this one but it seems that if you upload a .NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) to a box.net account and then download it, it sometimes gets corrupted. I noticed this on a client's machine after they placed roughly ten .NEF files in their account and all of them ended up with a Segmentation Fault: "(com.apple.finder[409]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation Fault" and Finder crash-relaunch on Snow Leopard, by -and get this- just highlighting a .NEF and hitting Command + I (Get Info) in the Finder.

I tried getting screengrabs of the effect but wasn't able to. But I did manage to get a quick snapshot with the client's phone:

It's kinda like an Ib Melchior movie.

What I saw was the Get Info window zooming out quite choppily leaving echoed windows on the screen, then the actual Get Info window was shifted down leaving blank white space above it while it shuddered slightly up and down before the Finder gave up and relaunched.

Playing around with this I had the client zip an individual .NEF, upload it to Box.net, then downloaded it on another machine and tried Get Info after unzipping it. Everything was fine.

I'm not sure where the problem lay but it smells of the old losing-the-resource-fork file problem of the days of yore.

The solution was to just zip the files and then upload, then download them.

Multiple P2 Cards Mounted Simultaneously

I love P2 cards and cameras like the HVX-200. But here's a tip from Apple that has bitten me a few times and I never put the two together. Apparently when you have multiple P2 cards mounted at once the likelihood of Final Cut crashing is increased. Go figure. I wonder why Apple has chosen to just post a note about it rather than issue a patch for it.

On computers with Mac OS X 10.4, Final Cut Pro 6 may quit unexpectedly while you're using the Log and Transfer window to transfer media from Panasonic P2 cards. If you have multiple P2 volumes mounted simultaneously, the likelihood of this happening may increase.

So do this...

To work around this issue, have fewer P2 volumes mounted at a given time.

All the more reason to buy a few of these, I guess.