adespoton wrote:
Based on your prefs file, these are the important lines:
disk MacOS9
disk AddedApps
cdrom /dev/disk1
extfs /Users/jb/Documents
So according to that, you've got a boot disk named MacOS9 (oddly, no filename extension) a secondary disk named AddedApps (again no filename extension) a link to the physical CD ROM drive in your computer, and a Unix drive pointed at /Users/jb/Documents.
First thing I'd recommend is creating a folder in your Documents folder called Transfer, and pointing your extfs to /Users/jb/Documents/Transfer.
Any documents you want to transfer to your OS 9 SheepShaver setup from your host will go in the Transfer folder. Once in OS 9, you can open the Unix drive and copy those files out to either your MacOS9 or AddedApps drive.
adespoton wrote:
Likewise, when saving documents, save them to your MacOS9 or AddedApps drive, then use the OS 9 Finder to copy them to the Unix drive. Then you can grab them from the Transfer folder in your host to do whatever you want with them.
So the MacOS9 drive is the drive that appears when you install MacOS9. It has no vehicle I can see that allows it to transfer between the SSdesktop and the MacOSX desktop. Please advise.
At any rate the way I use these files for MacProject Pro is that they are a representation of project I am working on. I normally saved them to the MacOSX and duplicated them when I wanted to make revisions. I worked (as far as I knew) right off the OSX document folder and all files would be opened and saved there. Now I must be able to revise them. But if moved to the unix file they become unusable. This could lead to a huge buildup of files in the SS that cannot be moved. When I am ready I print out the results using pdf creator. Or transfer the data using a text file to be moved to other software on the OSX. It seems that I am a bit too removed from my files. Even if backing them up they cannot seem to move away from SS. An odd place to leave my most important documents.
Solution? Please advise.
adespoton wrote:
Secondly, since you're obviously on OS X, that "cdrom" line won't work -- you can only point it at ISO images; it SheepShaver won't mount a physical CD on modern OS X.
Not sure what I should do about this.
adespoton wrote:
Third, it's probably a good idea to append .dmg to the end of your MacOS9 and AddedApps disk images, and change your prefs file to reflect the new names. Then you always have the option of just opening the disk images in OS X when SheepShaver isn't running, and you have access to all the files in those images.
Will this allow back up of all the files? Even if I can open the disk images, they won't work without SS. Even if saved will these files always be accessible but not working? I wonder how will I work? Any ideas? Back to Sierra?