Project won't display NoteTaker files

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John Cant

If I try to add an AquaMinds NoteTaker notebook (.nbx) file to a project's
file list, nothing shows up. Other files I have no problem with but
NoteTaker's -- nothing. Any thoughts anybody?
 
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Jeff Porten

If I try to add an AquaMinds NoteTaker notebook (.nbx) file to a project's
file list, nothing shows up. Other files I have no problem with but
NoteTaker's -- nothing. Any thoughts anybody?
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Try manually adding the alias to the Watch folder?
Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
 
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John Cant

Yeah - should have mentioned that - manually adding the alias to the watch
folder does not cause the files to appear in the file list. OK it gives me
easy access because I can click the watch folder and select the alias from
the finder window that is opened -- but Entourage just does not appear to
like these files. I wonder if its the extension? Can't be surely. I wonder
if there are any other files it doesn't like?
 
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John Cant

Doing a little more digging -- if I right-click on a NoteTaker notebook (the
extension is .ntx incidentally, I am given the option to 'Show Package
Contents'. If I remove the .ntx extension, the icon for the file reverts to
a folder.

OK - so this is a 'package' as opposed to a regular file. I'm not sure what
a package is (other than a folder masquerading as a file) but I'll wager its
the reason why Entourage isn't showing it in its file list. A regular text
file with an .ntx extension shows up just fine.
 
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Allen Watson

Doing a little more digging -- if I right-click on a NoteTaker notebook (the
extension is .ntx incidentally, I am given the option to 'Show Package
Contents'. If I remove the .ntx extension, the icon for the file reverts to
a folder.

OK - so this is a 'package' as opposed to a regular file. I'm not sure what
a package is (other than a folder masquerading as a file) but I'll wager its
the reason why Entourage isn't showing it in its file list. A regular text
file with an .ntx extension shows up just fine.
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Yes, that might do it. Packages are new beasties in OS X. Many things that
appear to be applications are really packages, "folders masquerading as a
file" as you put it. It provides a way to keep things together that must
stay together to work.

However, I think Entourage OUGHT to recognize aliases to packages. I'd
submit this as a bug via Help->Send Feedback.
 
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