Hello. Like many others on this list, I do what I can to save old software from extinction. For this and other reasons I frequently make software archives on CD, and of course I want them to be well organised and aesthetically pleasing. There is, for instance, a set of standard icons that I use for folders containing specific categories of software. Since I had a period of frantic icon collecting in the mid-90's, I have quite a lot of old icons to choose from. They are, of course, in the traditional icl / ics / ICN format.
The latest CD:s look very nice on the OS 8.6 system I use for mastering and burning them, but when browsed on a vintage system, be it using a local CD drive or over the network, then the CD:s are suddenly full of generic icons. I have now come to realise that when I cut and paste icons in Finder under OS 8.6, then it copies the "classic" icon resources but pastes them as a single new-fangled "icns" resource which isn't understood by vintage systems. This is probably just fine if the CD is intended for newer systems, but it is totally unacceptable when one is making CD:s, diskettes or whatever to use on vintage machines. Does anyone know a good way of preventing the modern Finder from converting icons during copy and paste? I'd really like a control panel that lets me tell the Finder how it should handle the icons. If not, do you have any suggestions for an application that elegantly (more elegantly than ResEdit) copies custom icons from one file, folder or volume to another _without_ converting them_? I can create new, empty folders with "classic" custom icons using the excellent program Icon Collector 1.1.1, but surely there must be other utilities? Or am I the only one who thinks that this is a problem? /Mikael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
