A PowerPC-only version of File Buddy. There is no release of File Buddy 6 for 68K Macintoshes.
File Buddy CP - A control panel for using File Buddy as the default find file and Get Info applications.
If your system software supports contextual menus:
Open in File Buddy and File Buddy CM - Contextual menu plug-ins for users of MacOS 8.0 or later, installed in the Contextual Menu Items folder.
Change Creator CM - Another contextual menu plug-in, installed in a Contextual Menu Plug-Ins folder in the File Buddy folder.
Important Things to Read - A folder containing a Read Me file; the 'Purchasing/Upgrading FB' file; 'About the Online Help'; and the 'Read These FAQs' file.
File Buddy Support folder - The HTML help files, folder icon templates, and plug-ins.
Bookmark Files - Bookmark files for Navigator and Internet Explorer that will take you to the Kagi payment page for File Buddy.
Custom Installs:
There is an installation option to install only the File Buddy application and documentation.
File Buddy now displays an alert if an error is encountered while displaying the online help, and adds the option to move the File Buddy Help folder to the system's Help folder in addition to copying it.
Fixes
Corrected the payment address in the payment form generated by File Buddy.
The custom install to install only the File Buddy application would not install all of the online help. Fixed.
Erasing unused space on large volumes could still cause File Buddy to hang. Fixed better.
Check Aliases could report one good alias as unattached. Fixed.
The Connect button in the Unattached Aliases window was not relocating when the alias list was resized. Fixed.
The View Icon Family window no longers draws 1-bit icons in the spaces for 32-bit icons if 32-bit icons are not supported.
Expanding the list of disks in the Find window could cause a crash. Fixed.
Information in the File Buddy CP control panel has been updated.
References in this document to beta releases have been removed.
A few people have reported that File Buddy crashes when they try to use the desktop rebuilding command. We believe what may be happening is a hang that results from a process that will not quit. That code has been rewritten to prevent hanging if a process won't quit, and it no longer tries to get background processes to quit.
Fixes in 6.0.2 - January 3, 2001
Fixes
Erasing unused space on large volumes could cause File Buddy to hang. Fixed.
Droplets would not open with versions of the OS prior to 9. Fixed.
Fixes in 6.0.1 - January 3, 2001
Fixes
The info window and icon viewer window were not displaying 32-bit custom folder icons. Fixed.
File Buddy would not open with versions of the OS prior to 9. This was a problem in one of the betas, and the one detail of the fix did not make it into the 6.0 release. Fixed.
File Buddy was developed and tested using MacOS 8.6 and 9.0. While it has been designed to run on System 7.6 and later, has been tested to a lesser extent with versions of the Macintosh operating system prior to 8.5.
Read the Known Problems section in the installed Read Me for a description of some minor issues in MacOS 8.1 and earlier releases of the system software.
Every effort has been made to insure File Buddy is as reliable and stable as possible. Nevertheless, as with all software, you use File Buddy entirely at your own risk.
Please send any information concerning bugs, unexpected behaviors, or suggestions to one of the e-mail addresses below.
For emergency support: 919-933-9595. Please do not call to verify our address or ask how to pay for File Buddy. The addresses above are valid for at least a year from the date of this release, and complete payment information is contained in the file 'Purchasing/Upgrading FB'.
File Buddy Home Page: <http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/home.html>
