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MindVision FileStorm - 1.9.5

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.9.5
Release Date:	2008-02-19
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	869
Downloads (all versions):	6,354

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Product Description:

FileStorm and FileStorm Pro take advantage of the latest advancements in OS X to offer a rich WYSIWYG user interface to create customized disk image files (.dmg files) for delivering software products via the Internet. In addition, the built-in CD burning capabilities allow the developer to seamlessly create CD-ROMs from disk images. The developer has the capability to easily customize the look and feel of their disk images with customized backgrounds, icon placement, and more. The fully visual interface allows the developer to see exactly how their disk image will look in real-time.

What's new in this version:

Setting the text size for disk image icons (see the Disk Image Properties, General tab)
Hiding files and folders on disk images (see the item's properties)

FileStorm Preferences now allow setting defaults for image file path, icon path and background image path, so you re-use these settings without having to edit them for each new project.

The minimum OS check for FileStorm installers now extends through Mac OS X v10.5.

FileStorm now requires Mac OS X v10.4.3 or greater for encrypting a disk image (with AES-128 encryption) so that it requires a password to mount.

For compatibility reasons, the MacBinary and BinHex encoding options are disabled when running FileStorm on Intel machines. If you use an Intel machine to open a project that uses these encoding options, FileStorm will set the encoding back to None, and display a message that advises running FileStorm under Rosetta if you need to continue encoding as MacBinary and/or BinHex. (The Encode Format setting is available in the Disk Image Properties, Format tab.)

Changes were made to address the following issues:

Non-admin users were unable to launch FileStorm.
GZip formatted disk images were not decompressing as expected on Mac OS X v10.4.
Adding a license agreement file to the disk image via AppleScript was failing.
Registered versions of FileStorm produced an error when the user tried to manually check for software updates (using "Check Now").
When installers included multiple install items, FileStorm failed to retain the Install To paths for all the items.
Uninstallers were unable to remove files that were installed after their parent folders.
Localizing certain strings would break the functionality of FileStorm installers. Because these problem strings are not needed for localization, they are no longer included in the Localizable.strings file.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

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Good stuff - Version: 1.9, 2/23/2006 02:45PM PST

Jason G (Jason German)

I used FileStorm to make DMGs for <a> href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29086">Sound Affects</a> and <a> href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29165">Clipboarder</a> I think that using this helps with branding. It's much better that the other method of breaking an image up into folders that if moved mess up the back ground image. Sure my downloads for apps no bigger than 1MB end up being 3.2MB using this method, but dammit, they look good!

<a> href="http://www.jasongerman.com">Jason German</a>

DMG's are now as easy as zip files - Version: 1.8.2, 1/31/2006 01:45AM PST

Robbie Hanson (Robbie Hanson)

I use this software to create the disc images for Alarm Clock. It has worked flawlessly for me since I got it. Plus, it is so much easier than trying to use the standard apple tools. You can save projects, and when you need to release a new version, just copy the new app into the filestorm window, click finalize, and you're done!
An interesting note: before I got this software my disc images for my application were around 5.1M. Using filestorm with the same content, they end up around 4.8M!

encoding bug? - Version: 1.8.1, 11/6/2005 12:47PM PST

Frank_Martin (FUNDimensions)

Since I upgraded my development machine from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3, I cannot use the compression options-either gzip or bzip. If I do, the resulting file generates "Warning: the following disk images failed to mount. Reason: Not recognized." If I leave encoding off in the Property Inspector > Format > Encoding Format, the resulting .dmg works fine, but is a little larger file size than the compressed files.

Anyone else seing this?