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I couldn't have done my little project without DiskTracker and File Juicer. Quite often I run into the problem of obsolete filetypes, thus File Juicer.

Insert it, and DiskTracker takes over to bring up the file. Then I look in my little 'tower' of DVD's, and there's my disk. In a few seconds it will tell me exactly where to go to find it.

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When I need to find old files that would not likely be on any of my active hard drives, I turn to my DiskTracker archive and look up my file. It gathers the contents in no time at all. Some apps took forever to catalog one disk. I didn't want to bake each one of them a cake and offer it a cappuccino I just wanted a quick and dirty list, organized like the Finder. Some were nice apps with all kinds of features that I couldn't even figure out. I ran them through DiskTracker to catalog them.īefore I did this (2004), I downloaded every file cataloguer known to Version Tracker and tried them all. Back in about 2004 I archived to DVD what amounted to my computer life up to that point - everything since 1984 that had ever made it to hard disk, and some from floppies as well. If you can get past the look and the fact that it operates like a Classic Mac app, this is the fastest, easiest, best (for me) disk cataloging utility that I've tried so far.

It's been updated for Snow Leopard, but that's about it.

Seriously, this thing started back in the Classic Mac days, and it has changed very little. Very nice.Īlso, for anyone who is looking for a meaningful way to make sense of archived files, I use a utility called DiskTracker which has been around for ages. Then I had a permanent record of all those little things we used to make when the kids were little. I selected all the sound files and dragged them into DP. I was able to extract the audio from every single file I ran through the File Juicer. When it's done, the original file remains intact, of course, but its copied contents have become like a box of parts. Some files might yield hundreds of little files, which File Juicer neatly arranges in folders labeled text, pict, audio, video. A file is like an orange, it says, and beneath the peel is the good stuff, so the juicer goes in and looks for data it recognizes, 'squeezes' it out, and saves it as a file.

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When you downloaded mod files, they came in a. Maxis had only released their modeler for the PC. There were all kinds of wonderful mods for Sim City Rush Hour, but there was only one drawback. Then I remembered a remarkable tool that I'd bought about 5 years ago for Sim City Rush Hour. I knew that all of those old files had audio in them, but how could I get to it? Others are just a blank 'page' icon for an unrecognized audio format.

In fact, some of them show up in UNIX executables now. Some of those audio files are in now-extinct formats. Periodically we'd record other things as it became possible to do so. When the Mac first became able to record through a microphone - you could record a few seconds into the system alert sounds, creating your own 'alert' instead of the beeps and squawks that were always included-I had recorded my children's voices, and they found that to be very entertaining. Trouble is, some of those recordings are pretty old, digitally speaking, of course. I've recently been using DP for a non-musical project: collecting interviews with family members, recording their voices, and creating an archive of recordings of the people I know and love.