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by cwinte
Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:36 am
Forum: General Macintosh Emulation
Topic: Sheep SHaver over COI
Replies: 7
Views: 5536

Re: Sheep SHaver over COI

I had regular error messages coming out of COI setup, because of the quotes around Chubby Bunny in old style plists. These triggered a raft of error messages every time mdworker visited, which with my backup system seemed to result in 100+ errors. Attempts to fix all the plists resulted in a COI sys...
by cwinte
Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:23 am
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Discs and drives: best approaches? some specifics...
Replies: 8
Views: 3616

Re: Discs and drives: best approaches? some specifics...

I use my sparserbundler script instead of compacting the sparse bundle (sparserbundler creates a new sparsebundle with 2mb partitions instead of using the compact flag -- the result is the same, but creating a new one means the old one's still there if something goes wrong). .... Sounds good to loo...
by cwinte
Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:52 am
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Discs and drives: best approaches? some specifics...
Replies: 8
Views: 3616

Need a secure file system base for long term data security

That test of a fresh image reporting problems sounds VERY worthy of further investigation by someone who really knows what is going on and needed, for now and future AFPS etc. I did wonder if the issue I saw was there from early on or I had introduced it somehow. I strongly feel we need an image sys...
by cwinte
Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:02 pm
Forum: SheepShaver
Topic: Discs and drives: best approaches? some specifics...
Replies: 8
Views: 3616

Discs and drives: best approaches? some specifics...

Hi, I realise I am unclear about the best way to check for and fix any disk errors that might be found in the SS emulated world. I have been using Edwards ready built 64bit SS based MacOS9 and moved my databases in there from ChubbyBunny where they had been for some years. I was looking into the spa...