It comes on a floppy! It's not PowerPC-native. Indeed, much of DiskTop's appeal, I have to admit, is that it's such a blast from the past. In the past six years, DiskTop has been tweaked to ensure compatibility with Apple Menu Options and Y2K, but functionality remains unchanged. But carping, though easy, is pointless, since these issues will probably never be addressed. As you make an alias, you can't dictate its name. For example, it lists invisible files, but it doesn't tell you they're invisible, nor does it let you search only for invisible files. You can also find by multiple criteria, quickly and easily. A Get Info dialog lets you get (and set) the sort of technical stuff for which you'd otherwise need ResEdit or Snitch. Supplementary modal dialogs let you delete or rename an item, pick a folder to copy or move an item to, create an item, learn a folder's size, or copy a pathname. Navigation between folders (using always this single window), by mouse or keyboard, is lightning-fast you can also nominate favorite folders for direct access through a pop-up menu. Having bemoaned the frequent untimely death of good software, I was stunned and delighted to learn that DiskTop is still available - and still works, though the version number has increased only to 4.5.3.ĭiskTop is a single window displaying one folder's contents, like a non-hierarchical version of the Finder's List view, but including invisible files, and telling you type/creator codes and exact data/resource fork sizes. Over the years, DiskTop somehow fell off my radar screen, though I was dimly aware that CE Software had spun it off to the Prairie Group and TidBITS hadn't reviewed it since 1994, when Stephen Camidge looked at DiskTop 4.5. ![]() ![]() Simon, one or two people asked if you were able to import your tab delimited DiskTracker file successfully into DiskCatalogMaker but I haven’t seen you answer if you did or if was successful.Tools that Never Died: DiskTop and DiskTrackerīack in the hoary days of System 6, the Finder badly needed help, and DiskTop was one of my favorite helpers. Could be because I was including thumbnails to be created/included in the archives. I also tried back then (on same older imac running High Sierra) to archive disc by disc directly with DiskCatalogMaker however found it was taking way too long for each disc. I have a new iMac now with Catalina so I’ll try the process once again. However I don’t think it imported well as the listing was somewhat scrambled or gave an error. Following instructions I exported the DiskTracker file as tab delimited and imported to DiskCatalogMaker. And so I tried it (on the High Sierra iMac which I was then using at the office so that when the time came for upgrading to Catalina I would be good to go. ![]() I discovered DiscCatalogMaker which seemed nice with the ability to save associated files thumbnails which could aid in identifying files. ![]() I was quite disappointed to learn DiskTracker wasn’t updating/upgrading their software from way back then so only could be used up to Mac OSX High Sierra therefore not compatible with Catalina. Accumulated well over 350-400 discs over the years. I work in an advertising agency’s art department and was responsible for archiving discs of artwork burnt to CD/DVD discs in order to free up artists hardrive space and of course to archive and search for whenever. Add me to the list of longtime DiskTracker users.
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