I'm doing what I've always done to successfully create a Autorun Hybrid CD in Toast, only I've recently upgraded to OSX and this is the first project to require it. Now I get an error:
"Couldn't complete the last command because the volume couldn't be found. Result code -35"
Tried on a couple diff macs (all running OS10.3 with Toast 5.2.3) and get the same results. I've narrowed it down to the fact that it's the Temporary Partition that cannot be found by just trying to burn an autostart Mac Volume and I get the same error message.
Anyone have any clue why this is happening?
I've turned off appletalk even tho I'm not prompted to anymore, but no luck. Changed some QT settings thinking it might cause it, no luck. Time to get out my old imac and put it to use?
Toast cannot find the related volume (error code = -35)
Resolve Aliases is checked (activated), and aliases in the data you are copying point to a volume Toast can't find.
Mount the missing volume or deactivate Resolve Aliases. If you deactivate Resolve Aliases, Toast records the aliases as unresolved aliases, displaying them in italics.
Mac autoplay behavior requires QuickTime 2.0 or above and System 9 or below. OSX does not support autoplay (removed because of general security concerns). Classic will autoplay a CD if Classic is already running before the CD is mounted.
Microsoft has allowed this since Windows 95 and there were utilities for the 16-bit version of Windows that provided autoplay support. You can bypass autoplay by holding down the shift key (I think) as you close the CD door. It's a REALLY low risk. I would guess that the number of virus infected CDs is really low and it's pretty easy to track where a CD came from and punish any malicious offenders, most CD publishers want you to find them! I have no idea why Apple caved under pressure from the community to axe such a useful feature. Still the people that want the feature can get it through QT or any number of third party apps of their choice.
I used to work in prepress and actually did have some problems with viruses on CDs. People would send me files (my job was to create the negatives of their design that the press needs). On a number of occasions I received Mac CDs that had viruses on them. Of course, I knew who had sent me the CD, but they never knew where the virus had come from. Probably off the Internet (?) but the virus was set to write to CDs and then they distributed the CDs. This was not a large number of cases, but we did have to disable the autoplay part of the Mac because of viruses getting auto-installed onto our system. I don't ever remember getting a virus on PC CD.
Still, autoplay's a useful feature so I wish they'd kept it (at least as an option).
I used an applescript on a previous application that I built in os9 that saves files to a selected location from the cd, and it worked great. Then I "upgraded" to X.3 and the script doesn't work. Is there a syntax change for unix? Does anyone have a good applescript that works in X and classic? I know my autorun is not going to work and can live with that.
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