Fwd: Tiger and HC

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi all,

Here is a mail that I received from Chris: it can interest all of  
them who want to run HC with Tiger but, unfortunately, don't have two  
drives.

Début du message réexpédié :

> I posted this about three weeks ago but the recent
> round of questions suggests that it would be good to
> cover again.
>
> HC and Reports work find under Tiger if you put the HC
> app on a non startup partition. Since most of us don't
> have a spare patition sitting around, the best thing
> to do is to setup a virtual disk.
>
> It turns out that the OSX Disk Utility makes this
> quite easy. Open it up and click the icon titled New
> Image. Pick a size that will hold your HC folder
> contents and make sure it is of the read/write type.
> Click create and you will get two things 1) a .DMG
> file in the location you specified and 2) the virtual
> disk mounted to your desktop. What is very surprising
> to me is that from this point forward, OSX will keep
> the two synchronized.
>
> Put your HC folder contents over there and launch your
> app. It should work well aside from any path specific
> stuff that broke by changing the location of HC.
>
> Now drag the virtual disk to the trash. Once it is
> gone, double-click on your DMG file and the virutal
> disk will reappear and voila everything you just
> trashed should be there.
>
> Bonus, you can drag the HC app to your dock and then
> trash the virtual disk and your dock icon will still
> work. It will remount the virtual disk and launch HC
> without question.
>
> Note that only the HC app, and therfore Home, have to
> be on the virtual disk. You can put all your other
> stacks wherever you like.


Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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