Re: 1) CF Focus 2) Ciderpress

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

Andy McFadden wrote:
> John <zzzjoki@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 2) I tried to use Ciderpress to copy a 7 meg partion to a 30 meg
> > partition. I believe it was a big PO file. When I attempted to dump
> > that onto the 30 meg partition, Ciderpress complained of the size
> > difference. I could see nothing on the resultant target.
> >
> > Is it possible to bulk move information between unequally sized
> > partitions via Ciderpress?
>
>
> I assume you're using Tools->Volume Copier.
>
> You can copy a smaller image into a larger partition.  However, because the
> volume size is encoded in the ProDOS filesystem, you would end up with
> a 7MB volume and 23MB of wasted space.  (You may be able to correct this
> after the fact with ProSel's Mr. Fixit.)
>
> A better way is to format the target drive for ProDOS, open the source
> device, copy all files with Ctrl-A Ctrl-C, open the target device,
> and paste with Ctrl-V.  (Make sure the "strip pathnames when pasting"
> option is disabled in preferences, or use "Edit->Paste Special".)

It's worth noting that copying all files on a partition to a newly
formatted partition has the effect of compacting all the files, or
"optimizing" the partition, and is both faster and safer than running
an optimizer on the Apple II.

-michael

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