Stuffit Corruption
From: bob <bobn@onramp.removethispart.net>Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Help! Toast corrupts my Stuffit files
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:57:47 -0500
Message-id: <6311601D6EF09BDD.7DF9503CA92837D6.B4BC48A4ED82A9CF@lp.airnews.net>
Unfortunately, too late to save some files that i had trashed, i discovered that my .sit files (Stuffit 6.0.1) that i have burned using Toast 4.1.2 are corrupt and won't expand properly (type 2 errors, or data fork integrity messages). I have a LaCie CDRW-161040 ext scsi and am burning CD-R's at 8x (with os 9.0.4). Unstuffed files work fine.
Anyone seen this problem before? i can't find anything on roxio's and aladdin's sites or searches. Appreciate any help.
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From: tacitr@aol.com (Tacit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 01 Jul 2001 18:00:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Help! Toast corrupts my Stuffit files
Message-id: <20010701140056.10226.00003610@ng-md1.aol.com>
If you're using Stuffit 6 and Expander 6, I bet those files are not really corrupt.
Stuffit 6 is one of the most severly bug-ridden, flakey, unworkable apps I have ever seen come out of any publisher other than Microsoft. In particular, Stuffit 6 can have difficulties with large Stuffit files.
The files might still be usable. Get rid of all traces of Stuffit 6, downgrade the CarbonLib installed with Stuffit 6 to an earlier version (from your system CD), and beg, borrow, or steal a copy of Stuffit Expander 5. It might very well be able to unstuff your files.
In any event, the problem is not with Toast or your CD recorder. A Stuffit file is not diffeent in kind from any other Mac file; there isn't a Toast problem that will damage only Stuffit files but not other kinds of files. The problem is with Stuffit 6, and the version of CarbonLib it installs.
Hope that helps.
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From: matti.haveri@sjoki.uta.fi (Matti Haveri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Help! Toast corrupts my Stuffit files
Message-id: <matti.haveri-2406011356500001@netti-3-298.dyn.nic.fi>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:56:49 +0200
Have you tried 9.1?
I had some random seemingly corrupted .sit files with 9.0 or 9.0.4 (sorry, don't remember which) and updating the System cured this. The culprit was some Foreign File extension.
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From: bob <bobn@onramp.removethispart.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Help! Toast corrupts my Stuffit files
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:38:17 -0500
Message-id: <CE2A6E862E4ED19E.C30DAF5186211F05.268FC4ED1B2EFB84@lp.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <4l5cjtc5iallafaq2do65jto8173g28omc@4ax.com>
thanks for the suggestion. i barely survived the upgrade to 9.0.4, so i have been reluctant to "upgrade" again.
the behavior is really nonrandom. i have only successfully unstuffed a 670k stuffit file. everything above a couple of megs is corrupt. haven't had any problem with large, non-stuffed files though.
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From: Nancy Thuleen <nthuleen@students.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Help! Toast corrupts my Stuffit files
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:52:59 -0500
Message-id: <3b361af0$0$773$e2e8da3@nntp.cts.com>
This sounds like a problem I've had with StuffIt 6.0.1. As a suggestion, find an old copy of StuffIt Expander (not the full deluxe package, just Expander 5.x), and use that to expand the "corrupted" files. This has worked for me -- large .sit files appear to do something weird when I use StuffIt 6.0.1, although small ones are fine. It seems to be related to CarbonLib in some way, even the most recent CarbonLib (1.3.1) hasn't solved the problem for me. But just using an older Expander, even though I have the full 6.0.1 deluxe installed, makes everything work well.
My guess is that the files are fine, and StuffIt is misbehaving.
Good luck.
- Nancy.
Eudora
From: ar_boyd@postoffice.utas.spam-me-go-on.edu.au (Andrew Boyd)Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Eudora Problem
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:43:32 +1000
Message-id: <ar_boyd-2506011343320001@boyd.bio.mq.edu.au>
Hey,
I have Eudora light 3.1 running on my iBook. Recently I'm gettting the problem of having the error message "the table of contents has been changed since last used. Do you want to create a new one, or use the old one?' or something to that effect. This has never been a problem in the past, but seems to happen now everytime I open up eudora. It has the result of duplicating all of my sent messages in the out box - well thats the one ive noticed anyway. Is there a solution to this?
Thanx, Andrew :)
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From: clarkm@pacbell.net (Clark Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Eudora Problem
Message-id: <clarkm-2506012337390001@eagle.martin.home>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:37:39 -0700
The times I've had this happen to me is when the time has changed while Eudora is running, such as changing to/from Daylight Savings Time or setting the clock from the Internet.
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From: ar_boyd@postoffice.utas.spam-me-go-on.edu.au (Andrew Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Eudora Problem
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:59:39 +1000
Message-id: <ar_boyd-2906010059390001@muras-remote87.ocs.mq.edu.au>
OK Thanks - thats probably it, as I have been mucking around with the time recently. Thanks again!
Andrew :)
p.s. i havent been time travelling though....yet.
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Subject: Re: Yahoo address book to Eudora?
From: elana.spaghetti@zen.org (Elana Kehoe)
Message-id: <1et70a3.gzsra914epjz3N%elana.spaghetti@zen.org>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:46:12 GMT
> Has anybody figured out how to do it? Yahoo will export to Outlook and
> some others I don't recognize.
Setting up an address book for Eudora is actually pretty easy. I just did my dad's address book from Pine to Eudora. Can you get the text file that is your Yahoo address book? If you can, all you have to do is open it (or cut and paste it) in SimpleText, and then the format is basically thus:
alias Elana elana@spaghetti.zen.org
The alias is my nickname, and then you have my address. Then, save the file as Eudora Nicknames in your Eudora folder in the System Folder (if you already have some names in Eudora's address book, save it as, maybe, Yahoo Names in the Nicknames Folder that is in the Eudora folder. If that folder isn't in there, you can create it.
If you have a group, just do
alias groupname <list all emails for the group here, separated by a comma>
If you have any questions, feel free to email me. And if I'm wrong about any of this, I'm sure someone will correct me...right? :-)
Calendars
From: RK Henderson (rkhen@softhome.net)Subject: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-05 14:33:34 PST
I've just moved to a G4 running OS9 and OSX and am having trouble replacing a vital piece of OS7 software. I'm hoping someone out there can help. Does anyone know of a calendar programme, whether commercial or shareware, that actually behaves like software and not a piece of paper? On my old Performa I was running Remember? . It did everything I need and became essential to my life and business. Since the move, I haven't found anything half as good. At minimum, I need the following features:
o to see the whole day at start-up
o pop-up reminders throughout the day as events arise.
o advanced warning of pop-ups (i.e., a pop-up before the "now's the time!" pop-up.) To be useful, this feature has to be programmable, that is, to offer the ability to programme some advanced warnings at 5 minutes before, some at several hours before, and some at several days before.
If the calendar runs in the background, like Remember?, so much the better. Ditto if it runs on both OS9 and OSX, or comes in separate versions that share a single database (so I get the same reminders no matter which system I'm running.) So far the only calendar programme I've found that's even in the Remember? ballpark is SimpleDays, and it's caveman primitive by comparison. Ah, for the heady days of OS7.
Thanks, RK Henderson Author of "The Neighborhood Forager," the complete guide to the wild edibles of residential areas. http://rkhen.tripod.com/
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From: BreadWithSpam@fractious.net (BreadWithSpam@fractious.net)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-05 14:42:58 PST
Have you considered using Remember? Heh. Dave Warker has continued developing it and it's certainly still available for OS9 and X. It's one of my very favorite programs. It's long since ceased to be a "desk accessory" and is a normal application. Here - Dave's site: http://www.warker.com/remember.html The OS X version is considered a beta, but I've been using it since he posted it (quite a long time ago, btw) and it's never crashed on me yet. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow?
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From: Jeffrey Spivack (jeff@jeffspivack.nospam.com)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-05 15:24:49 PST
Now Up-to-Date and Contact, http://www.nowsoftware.com. does everything you mention, runs on OS 9 and OS X (with the same data file), and syncs with Pal OS devices.
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From: matt neuburg (matt@tidbits.com)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-05 15:44:07 PST
Just keep using Remember?, then. Runs fine on OS 9 and now there's an OS X version. m.
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From: RK Henderson (rkhen@softhome.net)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-06 07:31:44 PST
By golly, it never occurred to me to look for a new Remember? When I downloaded it in 1996, the Readme said that the author was no longer interested in maintaining it or keeping it up to date. It ended something like, "Don't e mail me any bug reports! I don't care about your crappy little problems!" So I just assumed it no longer existed. The version I have now (ca. 1996) doesn't run well on OS9, or even OS8, but I'm eager to see what's been done with it since. I'll also check out those other programmes suggested in this thread. Thanks a lot! If there are any other suggestions out there, please post them; I'll come back to see. RK Henderson Author of "The Neighborhood Forager," the complete guide to the wild edibles of residential areas. http://rkhen.tripod.com/
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From: Ben Sharvy (bsharvy@mac.com)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-07 16:37:50 PST
Pando Calendar is a really nice little program. It lacks some of the features you want, but it is handy and completely free (unless you count the occasional Biblical quote as a cost).
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From: Bruce (brucebiz@springmail.com)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-08 07:03:45 PST
I hesitate to write this, because it will make me sound all conformist and such, but MS Entourage's calendar does all of this (except to see the whole day at startup, but you can click to see the day, and probably set it to display on startup too). Are you just anti-M$ (that's ok w/me), do you want to dispense with the addresses-tasks-email part of Entourage, or have I misunderstood something here? Bruce
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From: Tom Stiller (tomstiller@comcast.net)
Subject: Re: Desperately seeking calendar programme
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2003-02-08 08:40:06 PST
Entourage and iCal share a common problem: they use too much screen real estate. Remember has a nice, compact display of the current month and near-term events plus abundant opportunity for customization.
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Graphics
From: Invader ZimSubject: picture database suggestions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2004-07-04 02:08:22 PST
I am trying to find an application with which to display an album of
ancestral photos. I have almost what I need in the program Panorama
from ProVUE, but they have put an impediment in place that seems to
preclude its use. Let me list some of the features I find essential,
and I am hoping that someone will suggest an alternative.
1) Cross platform. I want to be able to give the pictures to relatives
who use a PC.
2) Free viewer. Panorama can be used in an unregistered form on both
the PC and Mac to view the database, much as Adobe Acrobat Viewer can
be used to view pdf files.
3) Comments. A comment can be placed with each picture. This can be
anything from a single name to dozens of names for a group picture.
4) Selecting. Being a database program, Panorama can select only those
pictures with the name William, say, in the comment, or in the
filename. A subselection can then be made from within these selected
records to find only records with the name Mary, in addition to the
name William. Such selection capability is important in being able to
find specific pictures since I have more than 1000 pictures. If the
database has selected only a few pictures out of the 1000, the arrow
keys moves only through those selected.
5) Non embedding. The pictures should not be imbedded in the database,
but can be left in their own folders. All that is needed is the
filepath and filename for the picture. The database can then be as
small as a 200 KB while the pictures can take up 600 MB.
6) Ease of use. While not essential, it takes only a few seconds to add
a picture to the Panorama database; basically just paste in the picture
name, along with any filepath; also paste in the comment.
** The problem--The manufacturer has placed an impediment in the way.
They have blocked the use of jpeg, tiff and other graphics file
formats. They allow only pict files without the purchase of a $15
plug-in (I think it is called a graphics enhancement package) to enable
the use of these other picture formats. Well, I don't want to charge
each of my relatives $15 just to view my database; I have already
bought the program for my computer. And the graphics enhancement
package doesn't work with unregistered copies of the database anyway.
If it would work, I would convert all my pictures to pict format, but
pict is a non-compressed format, and the pictures will then not fit on
the CD without reducing the resolution drastically. Except for this
crippling feature, the program works beautifully.
I have begun trying Filemaker Pro 5 under OS 9 but immediately ran into
a memory problem with pictures larger than around 0.5 MB. I tried
increasing the memory of Filemaker, but this didn't solve the problem.
I may be able to solve this problem, but I wondered whether there are
any other programs with the above features that are worth considering.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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From: AES/newspost
Subject: Re: picture database suggestions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps </groups?hl=en&lr=&group=comp.sys.mac.apps>
Date: 2004-07-04 08:20:01 PST
Sorry, I can't do a point-by-point on the features you're requesting,
but many of us have found that iView MediaPro
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
is very much worth its commercial price. You might take a look at it.
Another idea is to acquire Adobe Acrobat (full version, not just the
Reader), and create PDF documents that either contain or link to the
photos. There's something of a learning curve in taking this route, but
you could add text or separate text pages along with the images; there
are all sorts of hyperlinking and "page action" possibilities in PDF
documents, along with search and indexing capabilities; and the results
will be not just searchable but also efficiently compressed (small file
sizes) and totally multi-platform with no add'l software.
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From: matt neuburg
Subject: Re: picture database suggestions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps </groups?hl=en&lr=&group=comp.sys.mac.apps>
Date: 2004-07-04 09:09:11 PST
The manufacturer has not "placed an impediment in your way". Panorama is
not free software, but you want the people to whom you are sending this
database to be able to use it for free. Panorama is capable of building
stand-alone database applications such as you are trying to create, but
there is a fee for doing this. To distribute a freeware database is only
$25. If distributing this project to your relatives is so important to
you, why not pay the $25? m.
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From: Mike Dee
Subject: Re: picture database suggestions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 2004-07-06 05:25:30 PST
I would be tempted to try freeware or shareware HTML catalogue generators
<http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/webgalleryswmac/>
"Macintosh freeware and shareware tools for generating image thumbnails and
HTML code to create gallery pages of your image collection..." Goes on to
say mention publishing the galleries on the web, but you can just as easily
use these tools for placing onto CD's for distribution.
The freeware "PhotoSite TimeSaviour 1.4.6", may be a good example:
<http://www.kalleboo.com/details.php?list=program&sw=psts>
> 1) Cross platform. I want to be able to give the pictures to relatives
> who use a PC.
Uses JPEGs and no royalty fees involved.
> 2) Free viewer. Panorama can be used in an unregistered form on both
> the PC and Mac to view the database, much as Adobe Acrobat Viewer can
> be used to view pdf files.
Pick a browser, any browser - well, most browsers :)
> 3) Comments. A comment can be placed with each picture. This can be
> anything from a single name to dozens of names for a group picture.
Comments - the beauty of HTML.
> 4) Selecting....
The control and ease of use you give to your intended recipients will be up
to how you fine tune the HTML coding.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
You're welcome.
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From: Ben Sharvy
Subject: PICT/JPEG to "Regular" JPEG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics
Date: 2004-10-31 08:17:02 PST
Is there a way to convert PICT/JPEG to something readable by most Web
browsers, *without* recompressing the image?
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From: Philip Ronan
Subject: Re: PICT/JPEG to "Regular" JPEG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics
Date: 2004-10-31 14:40:40 PST
As a quick hack, try deleting the first 726 bytes in the file. A
JPEG-compressed PICT file is basically a sandwich consisting of an ordinary
JPEG file inside a PICT wrapper, so you can use a tool like HexEdit to cut
away the PICT headers. The raw JPEG data starts with 0xFF 0xD8 0xFF 0xE0.
Getting rid of the tail segment isn't so easy, but it won't stop browsers
displaying the images.
You could also try a batch conversion in GraphicConverter. It tries to
preserve data in a few situations, and this could be one of them. You might
find more information on the GraphicConverter website.
Phil
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From: Ben Sharvy
Subject: Re: PICT/JPEG to "Regular" JPEG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics
Date: 2004-11-02 08:28:21 PST
It turns out that JPEGView will strip the PICT headers (although not
in batches). GraphicConverter won't (althoug it will convert through
recompression). JPEGView is an Classis OS program; I don't know if it
was ported to OS X.
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From: Kevin McMurtrie
Subject: Re: PICT/JPEG to "Regular" JPEG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.graphics
Date: 2004-11-02 21:15:25 PST
In article <d196ca8d.0410310817.4d06bca4@posting.google.com>,
bsharvy@mac.com (Ben Sharvy) wrote:
> Is there a way to convert PICT/JPEG to something readable by most Web
> browsers, *without* recompressing the image?
Sometimes.
PICT is a drawing language like PDF but simpler. It was common for
older applications to break large images into tiles. The resulting PICT
would be commands to draw the tiles into their original locations to
produce a whole image.
If you're lucky enough to have single bitmap PICT files, there are old
freeware utilities to strip them down to JFIF. Search for keywords like
"PICT", "JPEG", "JFIF", "strip", and "QuickTime PICT".
If your PICTs are made of tiled bitmaps, you'll have to render and
recompress.
Miscellaneous
From: mike@BOUNCEzacglen.com.au (Mike Dee)Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Clarisworks v. Appleworks 5.0
Message-id: <mike-0607011311500001@mac.zacglen.com.au>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 03:11:50 GMT
> >> Is CW 5 the same program as AW 5?
> >>
> >> If not, what are the differences?
In version 5 basically they are the same program. The changes are cosmetic (icons, name etc). The only real difference is that some "AppleWorks" specific files are created in the "Application Support Folder" of the System Folder and in the "Claris" Folder of the "System Folder", which also still exists for AW 5.
AW 5 will open CW 5 documents without conversion and vice versa.
IMO AW5 runs slightly faster than CW 5.
The name change was brought about when Claris Corp got "Steved" a couple of years back.
It gets a bit confusing sometimes for *this* old timer who can remember back to when Macintosh was but a glimmer in Steve's eye. Apple computer had an AppleWorks way back then for the Apple II's. It last existed on the Apple IIGS when Claris Corp took it over and introduced "AppleWorks IIGS" and yes it had a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database and drawing modules. And booted up with a gorgeous Claris Splash-screen in glorious 4 bit color. Ah "those were the days".
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