(Theoretically it should work with system 6, but I did not check it yet).
What is the “Cool Unmount Volume” extension good for?
Have you been allready annoyed by a message like this...?
Most of the time it is because SimpleText has been launched from the disk you just want to eject.
What the “Cool Unmount Volume” extension does is to send a "quit" message to any application launched from the disk (any volume as cd-rom, diskette, etc.) you want to eject.
If you was editing a document with one of those applications, it is the responsability of this application to ask you if you want to save your work or not(*). If you cancel, so that the application remains open, then you will get the usual message from the Finder. In fact, you have 5 seconds to save any modified document. If you need more time, or simply let any dialog box open and do nothing then, again, you will get the annoying Finder message.
(*) The same mechanism takes place as when you shut down your computer while applications are still open. In this case, it is also the responsability of the opened applications to warn you if you should save any modified documents. In our case, this mechanism is just restricted so that only those applications are concerned which were launched from the volume you want to eject.
Restrictions:
Since it represents most of the cases, only opened applications are concerned. If any other kind of file on the volume you want to eject is opened with an application launched from another volume, then you will get the Finder message as usual.
However if, for instance, a "ReadMe" document on the CD you want to eject is open with SimpleText, which has been also launched from that CD, then you will NOT get the annoying message, since SimpleText will have quit before.
Installation:
Simply drag the “Cool Unmount Volume” extension onto the System folder of your start disk or directly into the Extensions folder located in the System folder of your start disk, and restart you computer.
How to enter your Registration number:
After 30 days of use, you will have to register unless the extension will be desactivated and you will get an extra annoying message just after each start of you computer. To get rid of that new annoying message, you have either to take the “Cool Unmount Volume” extension out of the “Extensions” folder or to register.
Once you have payed your registration fee, you will get a registration number. You must then use the appication “Register Cool Unmount Volume” you normally got with the “Cool Unmount Volume” extension.
Right after you opened “Register Cool Unmount Volume”, a splash screen appears. Click on OK. Then a "Register" dialog box appears, where you can type your name and (or) your company name and your registration number. Confirm clicking on OK. If you typed a valid registration number, then you will get a congratulation message and have to click on OK again to quit “Register Cool Unmount Volume”.
The usually annoying lines:
Cool Unmount Volume is shareware and is not public domain.
You may try it for 30 days. If you decide to keep it and use it, you must register the software and pay
a $10 fee (or 50,- FF) for each computer where you intent to install it.
The first beta version has been installed on about 10 Macintoshes and absolutely no problem has been reported. However, you use Cool Unmount Volume at YOUR OWN RISK. The usually legal conditions of software use apply to this software.
Registered user will get the next version of Cool Unmount Volume (if any one is needed) or any bug corrected version for free. If you register Burnt MovieTextConverter, you get a right to use the software. You are neither owner of it nor of the code it is made of.
If you intend to distribute Cool Unmount Volume on any media (as a CD-ROM), I think it would be fair to send me an exemplary of it, and at least to inform me! You are allowed to do this under the following conditions:
- The Cool Unmount Volume package should not be modified;
- All files of the Cool Unmount Volume package must be included.
The Cool Unmount Volume package contains the following three files:
- The ReadMe file you are currently reading,
- The "Cool Unmount Volume" system extenstion,
- The "Register Cool Unmount Volume" application.
If you want to put it on any file server or site accessible via Internet or any other comparable way, please let me know! The above conditions apply in this case as well.
Disclaimer:
I make no warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to this software. It is provided as is and no responsibility or liability is taken for any damage or loss of data caused by using this software.
Version history:
planed:
- ??
1.0 July, 26th, 1997
First final release.
Just the same as version 1.0b1 plus registration software.
1.0b1 June, 23th, 1997
First delivered version.
P. S.
- Any suggestions are wellcome!
- If you encounter any problem, please let me know!
- Thanks a lot to the ones who encouraged me, especially my brother Pascal (swappl@imaginet.fr) and again to Marc Van Olmen (http://www.Sky4Studios.be) for their beta test and finaly Tristan Leblanc (moose@imaginet.fr) for his philosophy.
