IconFixer "fixes" a cosmetic "feature" caused by DriveSetup. What happens is that if you partition your drive, sometimes your custom icons for your partitions don't appear properly (i.e. two or more drives share the same icon). I've never seen this "feature" occur using HDSC, but it probably could.
According to Apple:
>Symptom
>------
>When using Drive Setup, including the latest version (1.0.4), with
>multiple partitions and custom icons, the icons for one partition may
>either duplicate across partitions, disappear, or turn generic. This is a
>known issue with Drive Setup that has been escalated previously.
>
>Issue
>----
>This issue is caused by the way the driver interacts with partitions that
>have the same creation date. Drive Setup is so fast and efficient, that it
>often will create partitions with exactly the same date and time.
>
>Workarounds
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>1 - One workaround is to modify the creation date of the partitions so
>they are not the same using a third party drive utility to do the
>partitioning.
>
>2 - The other workaround is to avoid using custom icons for partitions.
>
>This issue has been reported to engineering and is known.
The third workaround is to run IconFixer. IconFixer basically modifies the creation dates on your drives to make sure that they're all just slightly different, and your icons should then appear properly
Before running IconFixer, please eject all ejectable media (e.g. floppies, Syquests, Zips, CD-Rom's etc.) and disconnect yourself from all servers. This will make sure that IconFixer doesn't attempt to modify their creation dates.
IconFixer is a fat application, and should run just fine on any Mac. If you do find a bug, please report it to: nightfalls@kagi.com, and we'll deal with it ASAP.
Shareware:
IconFixer is being sold under the ShareWare system. Please pay your shareware fees. Thanks!
IconFixer has the following pricing (in US dollars).
Single user License: $10
Site License: $150
World-Wide License: $500
A Site License and covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100 miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
A World-Wide License covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth. Feel free to contact me for information on extra-terrestrial licensing ;-)
Paying for IconFixer is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies IconFixer. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi Shareware. Kagi's email address is shareware@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the datausing the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-NF
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi Shareware cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi Shareware can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email, and without the payment the form cannot be processed. Payments sent via postal mail take time to reach Kagi Shareware and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi Shareware when the form is processed.
Credits
Thanks to Dave Broome <dbroome@uvic.ca> for letting me test out IconFixer on his 7500 (brave man), and for helping track down the bug with Apple Tech Support.
Thanks to Don MacLachlan <damaclac@cadvision.com> for first alerting me to the bug, and for testing out IconFixer on his 8500 (another brave man).
Thanks to Erin Dalzell <edalzell@uvic.ca> for reading through this documentation.
No thanks at all to the University of Victoria who forced me to write computer science exams when I could have been coding...;-)
