RE: Droplet for CD
RE: Droplet for CD
- Subject: RE: Droplet for CD
- From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:28:24 -0400
The system I am creating will be the official archive for old job data. I
don't want people putting archived files onto a zip/floppy/MOdisk. The only
media to be used is CD-R. Since data integrity is important I would not take
a chance with Zip or other magnetic based storage for the long term.
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From: Christopher Nebel
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:21 PM
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To: Sprague, Graham
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Cc: Applescript Users
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Subject: Re: Droplet for CD
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On Wednesday, September 19, 2001, at 01:46 PM, Sprague, Graham wrote:
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> I am setting up a really simple script to catalog a CD to a Portfolio
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> Catalog. I plan to use the catalog to keep track of items stored on the
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> CDs.
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> This will make it easier to search for items across multiple CDs.
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> My reason for limiting the droplet to CDs is that I don't want people
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> adding
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> the folder the used to prepare the files for burning, single files, or
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> shared disks, etc... I only want them to add CDs. For the forseeable
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> future
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> we will be using CD-R as our archive media. Until DVD is the standard
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> then
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> I'll make the change to DVD. So for now it's just CDs.
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If this is a thing to catalog CDs, why not generalize it to removable
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media? That way, people could use DVD-Rs, Zip disks, flash cards,
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whatever. Check that the item is a local ejectable disk -- the Finder
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can tell you those things trivially.
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By the way, if you don't mind futzing around with ResEdit a bit, you can
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alter the droplet so it will only accept disks. (I.e., the Finder will
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only let you drop disks on it.) Open the droplet in ResEdit, open the
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"BNDL" resource, and delete the "****" and "fold" items.
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--Chris Nebel
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