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================================== “READ ME” for LockSmith, version 1.0 ================================== Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved. January 15, 1992 Font: Geneva 12 This document must go wherever LockSmith goes. Please do not distribute LockSmith without this documentation. Please do not modify this document. REGISTERING LOCKSMITH AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES ================================================ LockSmith is not free. Sites using this software in business MUST register it. Contact the author for site licensing information. If it is for personal use only, please send a few dollars. Or you can consider the following. 7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way. See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file. Please use it to register the software. USING LOCKSMITH ================ • If you use LockSmith, please please please send me a note. My addresses (post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the information in the above section on registration. What Does LockSmith Do? ----------------------- • LockSmith allows you to lock or unlock files, folders, and disks quickly and easily without the trouble of the Finder's Get Info windows. Locked files and disks cannot be modified until they are unlocked. No locked item can be renamed or deleted until it is unlocked. When used under System 7.0 or higher in Drop Box mode, you can modify entire groups of items. Using LockSmith --------------- • LockSmith can be used in two ways: • You can double-click on the application icon to open the program and use the Open... menu item in the File menu to select files for modification. You can also modify your preferences from this menu. You could also drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-style”. Depending on the preferences you have set up (see the next section), LockSmith will scan folders and disks provided, and will modify ALL files and ALL of the directories provided, no matter what their depth. The latter, “Drop Box” method requires Apple Events, and thus System 7.0 or higher. So if you don’t have at least System 7.0, you’ll have to use the Open... menu item. Disks are treated as directories, so if you drag a disk over a LockSmith with preferences to modify only directories and not their contents, the disk will be locked, but no other items on the disk will be modified. • When in Manual mode (using the Open... menu item), the file open dialog will appear with several extra buttons. The Locked check box is checked if the currently selected file, folder, or disk is locked. You can check or uncheck this button as desired. The other two check boxes determine what files to display. Remember that folders are always displayed (regardless of their visibility). The last two extra buttons, All locked and All unlocked, allow you to make all files in the current directory either locked or unlocked. LockSmith does not go any deeper than the current directory when in Manual mode, so the contents of a folder locked in Manual mode are not locked also. • Double-clicking on files in Manual mode is the same as toggling the Locked check box. Otherwise (double-clicking on folders or disks), it performs the standard function. • If you lock or unlock an alias in Drop Box mode, the owner file will be locked or unlocked accordingly (not the alias). • Hold down the shift key while the program is launching (or right after pressing OK in the Preferences dialog if you are holding the option key down to display it) to toggle the locked bit of selected items. If the item is not currently locked, LockSmith will lock it, and it will unlock items that currently have their locked flags set. • As a safeguard, disk locked flags are processed last. So if you wish to modify files on a locked disk, you must first unlock the disk. This only involves dragging the disk into the drop box twice. For example, if you want all files unlocked on a software-locked disk, you must first unlock the disk with LockSmith (drag it over the icon or use the Open... menu item), then drag it over the icon again to set the flags on the files on the disk. • Alerts are very annoying, especially in Drop Boxes. So there aren’t any. As a rule of thumb... If something doesn’t unlock, check the disk. It is probably locked. • To cancel processing, just type a command-period. Files already processed will remain modified. Preferences ----------- • The first time you try to modify a file using the program, the preferences dialog will come up, just to make sure the correct parameters have been set up. You can modify these if you wish. If you don't want to see that window again, just say OK. You will have to explicitly ask for for the Preferences window the next time you wish to change anything. The preferences apply ONLY to Drop Box mode. They are not consulted when in Manual mode. • To show the Preferences dialog in Drop Box mode, hold down the option key while the program is launching. • The preferences are fairly self-explanatory. You can choose to lock or unlock files and folders. By choosing to modify directories, you have decided that folders themselves can be locked or unlocked. You can modify files and folders inside those folders which you have dropped in by checking the Modify contents box. For example, if you drop in a folder containing three files and another folder, and have Modify contents on but Modify directories off, and are locking the files, the folders will remain unlocked, but all contained files (including those inside the second folder) will be locked. USING DROP BOXES ================= Drop Boxes are applications which can take advantage of System 7’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory. The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits. You can also throw in whole directories and disks. You don’t have to throw in just one, either. Select a whole bunch of files, directories, or disks, or any combination of the three, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for files of the required type and modify them accordingly. All files in all directories within those dropped in will be modified. You can also open the program by double-clicking and modify files from inside the program, or you can open the program manually and then throw files in. The program will not quit this time. At least, that is how Rob•Drop Boxes work. ABOUT THE AUTHOR ================== If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post. Robert Gibson E-Mail: RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236 Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com KØK 1LØ This program is not to be included in any software collections other than BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST include this document, unmodified. LockSmith copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.