File Smiler

Description
File Smiler turns your files and folders into Self-mounting Image files using Apple’s Disk Copy 6.3.
Disk Copy only allows you to create disk image files, directly. To create Self-Mounting Image files, Disk Copy 6.3 must be accessed through Applescript.

Installation
Simply copy the File Smiler folder to wherever you want it.

System Requirements
Applescript (part of a standard install of MacOS 8.x - MacOS 8.5 recommended).
Apple Disk Copy 6.3 or greater.
200kB RAM
About twice as much Hard Disk Space as the original files take up.

Instructions
To create SMI files from your folders and files, simply drag files, folders and disk image files onto File Smiler.

There are three basic conditions:
If you drag a single folder or disk onto File Smiler:
a new disk image will be created from the folder. That is, the disk will have the folder’s name, and the contents of the disk will be the contents of the folder.

If you drag a file or multiple files and/or folders onto File Smiler:
You will be asked what your new disk image will be called.
A new disk image will be created, with the name that you gave it.
Each file and folder that was dragged onto File Smiler is copied onto the new disk.

If you drag one or more disk image files (not the self-mounting files) onto File Smiler:
A new disk image called “Multi-session Disk Image” is created with all image files incorporated into it. When you double-click the SMI file, all the disk images that were incorporated into the file mount individually. That is, if you dragged 2 image files onto File Smiler, the result is 2 disks stored in the one file. This is the same as creating a multi-session CD.

It is possible to drag a combination of image files and files/folders.
File Smiler is smart enough to differentiate between the two kinds.

A new Self-Mounting Image file will appear on the desktop. When launched, a disk image is mounted just as if it was a real disk.
The disk image file, that the Self-Mounting Image file is made from, is placed in the trash at the end of processing.

Distribution
File Smiler is freeware.
This means you may use it obligation free.
You may distibute it as long as you keep all the accompanying files together.
If you wish to distribute File Smiler as part of a commercial package, or on a compilation CD-ROM, then you must ask permission.

The usual legal stuff
If by some stroke of poor luck you are hit by a thermonuclear weapon, then mellow software could possibly take responsibility for your computer crashing or becoming otherwise damaged from this software (after serious consultation with our lawyers).

Contact Details
http://welcome.to/mellowSW
email: petemel@netspace.net.au