On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:07 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
Can someone tell me how to set this up, not just say "create a disk image"?
Start Disk Copy.
Select Image > Create new Image
Give the image a name (I'll call it 'MacDrawDisk', select where to
save it, and select a size. The format (Read/Write) is grayed out,
because by default any new image you create has to be writable. If
you select make an image form a folder or from a disk you can change
this.
Size, I chose 10 mb. My MacDraw Pro 1.5 folder is 3.9 Mb in size
Mount Image is checked, Zero Blocks is checked.
Click Save.
The image is created and then is mounted on the desktop. Since it's
unformatted, you're asked to format it. I selected the default.
Now you'll have a disk on the desktop that's called MacDrawDisk,
which is 10 MB in size, and a MacDrawDisk.img file wherever you
saved it of the same size.
Disk Utility in OS X allows you to specify a sparse image, in which
the disk image file is only as large as what it contains. (It also
allows you to create encrypted, password protected images which can
give you the advantages of FileVault without the dangers.)
Drag your MacDraw Pro folder to the disk MacDrawDisk on the desktop.
This copied MDP to the disk. Drag the disk to the trash to dismount
the disk as usual.
To use MDP find and double-click on the MacDrawDisk.img file, then
on macDraw in the disk that appears on your desktop.
I just confirmed that MacDraw Pro 1.5 did indeed function correctly:
I was able to open a file. save it, make changes to it and save it
again. No errors. This was done with OS 9's Disk Copy in 9.2.2
running in Classic on my G4. No, I'm not going to boot into OS 9 to
make sure it works that way, too.
--
Bruce Johnson
Thanks, Bruce. I wish it would work for me... Unfortunately this
doesn't work with OS9.2. I had to drag the app to the MacDrawDisc
icon, not the .img icon. Dragging the app onto the .img icon resulted
in no activity... the icon doesn't change at all. If I try clicking
on the .img I get a window flashing on & off once, with the message
"Mounting disk MacDrawDisc.img". I had to click repeatedly to flash
the window rapidly enough to be able to read it!
And once done, both MacDraw II & Pro cannot save more than once, so
remain useless. I cannot even try them in OS10.2.8 because there is
no 256 colors monitor option on my Mac.
So it looks like the 6116 must remain on my desk!
--
Regards
Andrew
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