Re: DiskBrowser Software - Work In Progress

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

denisbytezone@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sep 3, 8:57 am, "Bill Garber" <willy4...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote in messagefI-dnXH_85UgJSDVnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@comcast.com">news:fI-dnXH_85UgJSDVnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >
> > > aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On Sep 2, 12:15 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> > > > > Agree on all points--now if it would just terminate.
> > > > > (And, no, it wasn't doing anything--that *I* asked it to do.  ;-)
> > > > It will on my machine if you give it a few minutes
> > > Wow!  A few *minutes*?!  That's equivalent to not
> > > quitting in my book!
> > > What takes so long?  (Task Manager kills it pretty quickly!  ;-)
> > > I just tried it again, and ten minutes after clicking on
> > > "close", it's still running and responding to mouse clicks...
> > > Since it won't quit, I'm quitting.  ;-)
> > Still no trouble here, except it read images a little
> > slower after I installed Safari Web Browser, but that
> > subsided nearly immediately, and I'm back to 100%
> > operational.
> >
> > Can't wait to see it do more though, like anything
> > bigger than 140K images, and even some of those are
> > out of the loop.
> >
> > Also, Denis, could you please add a way to close the
> > images that I open, so I don't have 35 of them open
> > at a time, without closing, which leaves the last
> > one open upon re-entering the program. Thanks.
> >
> > Bill Garber from GS-Electronicshttp://www.garberstreet.com
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> Firstly, it closes fine for me, so I think it must be falling over
> internally (or looping). If I can reproduce your problem I'll fix it.
> Did everyone set the root directory as asked, or did they just use the
> 'open file' option? I'm thinking of taking that option out as I never
> use it anyway :)

I just used the "Open disk image" (that seemed intuitive enough ;-).
I don't remember being asked to set the root directory.  I didn't
RTFM--in fact I didn't see one...  ;-(

If I set the root directory, then it seems to exit OK...  Why is there
a difference?

-michael

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