You are a Mac fanatic that loves to collect every possible sound there is. You have them all, from the Star Trek intro (original and TNG) to 33 different screams, all neatly stored in different folders. To have access to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you store them all on your hard drive (a 40 Meg one at that). Then one day comes the crunch. While trying to save a word processor document, you get an error [-34]. Your hard disk is full!! You check out your hard drive. All you have on it are your word processor (and a few documents), system folder (with hardly anything in it), a few other tidbits amounting to about 1 Meg in size, and the folder with all your sounds in it. You go to Get Info. It’s 35 Meg! You decide the time has come to move them off onto floppies. You double-click on the folder (waiting several minutes for it to open), insert your first disk, and begin. Several hours (days) later, you finish. It is about this time that you lose your sanity, sell your Mac, and buy an IBM… ;-)
This tragedy could have been avoided, however, had this person known that help was just a ‘disk copy’ away. Introducing…
• The Mover v1.0 - by Jason Anderson 1993.
--ABOUT IT
The Mover was originally written to make moving large numbers of files onto floppy easy. You tell the program which folder you want it to ‘fix’ for you, and how big you want the resulting folders to be. Lo and behold, as if by magic the folder you selected will have its contents distributed among several new folders (placed in the original folder), all equal to or less than in size to what you asked the program to. The folders can be any size, although usually you will want to make them the size of an 800k or 1.4M disk. If a file (or folder) is too big to be moved, it is left alone (you can figure out what you want to do with it!)
--USING IT
The Mover is operated from a Modal dialog (ie: no menu bar). Future versions (if they ever get written) will change this. To use, simply set the size of the folder(s) you wish the program to create, and press the button “Move Em”. A standard file selection box will then appear, allowing you to select which directory you wish the program to work on. Press the select button, and the program will then start work. Alternatively, if you change your mind, just press cancel. One note about selecting the folder size. The menu at present contains two selections, for 800k and 1.4M disks (version 2 may let you edit the menu, and add your own selections). If you wish the folders to be different sizes than the two options, simply type the size you want in. What you enter will then be temporary added to the menu.
--KNOWN BUGS
There are two known “bugs”.
• If the program is used on a computer running system 6, and the folder you wish to use The Mover on is on another disk, you may not be able to select it.
-The solution: Make sure The Mover is on the same disk as the folder you wish to move.
• Sometimes, after using The Mover on a folder, the Finder will report it as being XXXk in size, but when you copy it to another disk, the Finder will say it is YYYk in size (where YYY is usually less than XXX). If the same folder is then copied back, the Finder will once again say it is XXXk in size. This shouldn’t cause a problem (since XXX is less than or equal to the size you want), but it sure has me beat as to how it happens.
-The solution: Don’t believe everything the computer tells you.
--FINAL NOTES
This program is shareware. Many hours have gone into making this program what it is, and if enough people send in their shareware fee, many more hours will be spent improving it, and implementing any suggestions people have. As an incentive to pay the shareware fee, free upgrades can be obtained Just send an unformatted disk with sufficient return postage, and you will receive the latest version. BUT ONLY IF YOU PAY THE SHAREWARE FEE!!!!!
Send money ($5 Australian), comments, suggestions, other bug reports, or just a postcard, to:
Jason Anderson
PO Box 471
Devonport, TAS, 7310
Australia
And remember: If your feet smell and your nose runs, then you’re built upside down!
