[B2-devel] Sheepshaver - File Access outside the virtual volume

[Kevin J. <kev...@hi...>]

I'm not sure what Basilisk is, but the Sheepshaver site said to seek  
support on this forum. Many thanks to everybody working on Sheepshaver.

I am having trouble moving files to and from the virtual Classic Mac.  
I am running Mac OS X.4 ("Tiger"). I see that my computer's actual  
startup volume appears on the virtual Classic desktop as "Unix".

Only partial lists are being produced on the unix volume. For  
instance, and this is a big one, it doesn't see "/Applications (Mac  
OS 9)". And two other big ones are "/Users/Shared/Family Documents"  
and "Users/kj". Oddly, it does see "/Users/Shared/" and "Users/sj". I  
checked the permissions. Both Sheepshaver and Sheepshaver Gui are  
owned by kj with rwx, of the admin group with rwx, permitting guests  
with r--.

Why am I only getting partial lists?

My main need for Classic is to run InControl, which carries some 8000  
tasks in hierarchical structure many with alarms. Exporting to a new  
program would be daunting. Besides, I haven't found any other task  
manager or calendar that permits you to add fields, customize views,  
attach alarms and organize it all hierarchically.

Anyway, when I copied the files from the 'unix' drive to the 'bart  
os9' volume, I think they lost all their resources. Certainly the  
control panel was not recognized as such, nor could I launch the  
application by opening the data file, nor was the application  
recognized AS an application.

So, how does one get Mac files INTO the virtual Classic after the  
volume is created, without losing all their essential Mac resources?

Interestingly, the virtual Classic thought a folder was a file.

Disturbingly, when I made a change to a directory using OS X, the  
virtual Classic which had an open window displaying that directory  
did not update the display. At least the reverse worked. When the  
virtual Classic wrote to a Unix directory, the Mac OS X window  
displaying that directory was immediately updated.


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