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- DeAL!
- Disk'em all!
- Drag and Drop utility to combine files and folders to floppy-disks.
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- The story so far ...
- After starting downloading files from the Internet,
- I had a lot of files on my small HD and soon ran out of disk-space.
- So I put the unused archives on floppy-disks.
- Hundreds of files later, I got tired of manually fit them on diskettes.
- So the idea of this little application came up.
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- How does it work?
- When you drop a number of files and or folders on DeAL!, they are combined
- to folders of the selectable size of a disk . The folders are created
- in the same directory as the files dropped on DeAL!. If a file is too big to fit on
- a disk, it is moved in a folder called "too big!".
- The number of files processed is currently limited to 1000 (one thousand).
- (Have you ever selected more than a thousand files in the finder?)
- Don't worry about dropping more than a thousand files on DeAL!,
- the rest above will not be processed and stays where it came from.
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- How to use
- Just drop some files or folders on DeAL!.
- In the dialog you can select the disksize (1440k, 800k, Other ...)
- When you select 'Other', a new dialog comes up in which you can enter a byte size.
- When you check 'Walk folders', every folder is processed recursively for files
- instead of being moved at a whole.
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- Disclaimer
- This is a quick and dirty hack, this is also my first C program ever.
- Don't worry about your files. (Never listen to someone who tells you Don't worry)
- They are just moved in another folder. So there should be no data loss at all.
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- Use at your own risk!
- This is Freeware!
- I take no responsibility for any damage caused by this application.
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- Credits
- DeAL! is based on DropShell.
- So thanks go out to Leonard Rosenthol, Marshall Clow and Stephan Somogyi.
- Also thanks to the people who gave me feedback on DeAL.
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- Version history
- 1.0 This is the first release.
- FAT-binary. I have no PPC, so the PPC-code is not tested.
- Feel free to give me a PPC.
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- 1.0.1 Now you can drop folders on DeAL!
- The Icon has also been updated to reflect the new feature.
- (You may have to rebuild your desktop to see the new one)
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- 1.0.2 Changed the behaviour of DeAL!
- It no longer put files in already existing folders, so that
- you no longer get folders > 1.4MB. Instead it will fill up the
- existing ones and continues with subsequent new ones.
- Changed the disksize to 1447000 bytes.
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- 1.0.3 Changed the disksize back to 1440000 bytes.
- Some people had trouble with the new disksize, so I changed it
- back to the old value.
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- 1.1 Now you can select different sizes in the startup-dialog.
- (1440k=1448448 bytes, 800k=803328 bytes, Other...)
- The predefined sizes are the number of free bytes on a newly
- formatted disk.
- Now you no longer encounter these 'additional needed' errors.
- DeAL! now takes the block allocation in account while
- calculating the sizes. The block-size is 512 bytes.
- DeAL! will not function properly on disks that have a greater
- block-size.
- Beware: You could encounter 'Disk full' errors during copying a DeALt
- folder to a disk, due to the catalog-trees on HFS-disks.
- I had these errors only on 800k disks with many files.
- This happens because the OS sometimes needs to create
- an additional catalog-tree on the disk, which takes
- about 6k on 800k disks.
- 1440k disks have a larger initial tree-size, so it should
- not happen there.
- I will take a look at this when I have nothing else to do.
- My current thought on this is, that I just will lower the
- predefined 800k size.
- Now you can 'Walk folders'.
- The folders are processed recursively.
- Notice: Empty folders are not deleted
- you must trash the empty folders by hand.
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- 1.1.1 Now the Blocksize is selectable from 512 to 10240 bytes
- But only for the custom size. The blocksize of the predefined
- disksizes is 512 bytes.
- I hope you know the blocksize of your disks.
- If you really need a larger blocksize, add it yourself:
- Take ResEdit or a similar utility.
- Edit MENU-resource 131, add a new menu item.
- Remember that you need to do that in steps.
- If you want to add a 11264 size, you have to add
- a 10752 and a 11264 item (in that order).
- Now copy&paste is supported for entering the custom size.
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- When entering the custom size be beware of selecting no size
- >2147483647. If you enter a greater size you may get a incorrect
- size. You can check that by selecting 'Other ...' again.
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- This is Freeware! There are no fees for using this software.
- But if you are a shareware author, feel free to give me a registration of your product
- or to write a better version of this application.
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- Send comments, suggestions, bug-reports etc. to
- tessar00@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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- DeAL!
- Disk'em ALL!
- © 1995 by Martin Tessarek