Re: [rdiff-backup-users] TypeError: unsubscriptable object (cfile['creator'])

[Kevin Horton]

On 14 Oct 2005, at 22:50, Ben Escoto wrote:

> > > > > > Ryan Tarpine <address@hidden>
> > > > > > wrote the following on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:19:36 -0400
> >
> > I just learned about and installed rdiff-backup yesterday.  I  
> > tried to
> > run the command:
> ...
>
> >    Mac OS X style resource forks                On
> >    Mac OS X Finder information                  On
> ...
>
> >      finderinfo.Creator = cfile['creator']
> > TypeError: unsubscriptable object
>
> I assume you are running Mac OS X?  It seems to be a problem with the
> error-checking in the carbonfile code, but I'm not 100% sure since I
> don't have any experience with that OS.

It seems that with OS X 10.4 you need to use two switches:

--no-carbonfile --override-chars-to-quote ''

The second switch ends with two single quote characters.  It might  
only be necessary if you are backing up to and from the native HFS+  
file system.

Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada