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Jaguar CD Essentials 0.3

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JCDE is a small tool aimed at making available a few of the necessary but currently missing CD utilities to Jaguar. In this version you are able to erase a CD-RW without having to use the Disk Utility application and most importantly without having to enter an administrator username or password.

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PPC, Mac OS X 10.2.3 or later.

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Anonymous reviewed on 27 Feb 2004

this program totally screwed up my macos!! don't install it!!!!

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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Jan 2003

as an aside: I don't think its right for you, the author, to keep giving your own product five stars in all categories when you are simply responding to me. That inflates your rating artificially, and not everyone will open the reviews to know that's what you are doing. You don't have to issue a rating to respond.

[Version 0.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 25 Jan 2003

um...I wasnt trying to do that. I thought by drag and dropping the cdrw onto Jagessentials it would erase it. I thought Jagessen was intended to make it easy to re-erase an already used cdrw for reuse. I now see that isn't the intended purpose.
I wasn't worried about losing the data because I wanted to erase the existing cdrw anyways.
We may be speaking past each other here. I was only trying to clean erase the existing Cdrw.
However, if what I did was dumb, it was a perfectly normal dumb assumption to make: drag and drop on the application. and, it shouldn't have rendered the cdrw unusable.

as I explained, I simply drag and dropped the cdrw. That was probably the wrong thing to do in order to reerase, but even so, it shouldn't have hosed the cdrw.
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That eases some of my worries that I may have missed something crucial.
Now, as to what happened in your case I can think of a reason or two. If you tried to name the session the same name as the CD you already inserted, that may be a reason. I need to add to the documentation to eject all CD's before using JCDE.
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yeha, that's what I have: an unusable disk. Not what I wanted, and why I wanted to warn people.

[Version 0.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 25 Jan 2003

what happened is pretty much as I described it.
yes, the cDrw had data on it already, 33 mb of data.
I inserted the CDrw and dragged and dropped it onto Jaguar essentials. before I could do anyting else, a temp folder was created on the desktop and all the old contents of the Cdrw were being automatically copied to the temp file, I could tell because I got the copy progress window and it was displaying the files as they were being copied.
I got a little disconcerted at that, but oh well.
Then, the copy process stopped, the temp folder disappeared, and then the desktop icon for the Cdrw dissappeared. I had to physically stick a paper clip in the drive to remove the CDrw. When I reinserted, the G4 would not accept the CDrw and kept spitting it out without mounting it. Then, I opened Disk Utility up before I inserted it. Disk utility saw the Cdrw but it showed it as only 33 mb. It appeared to let me quick erase it. That process ended. When I quit Disk Utility, the Cdrw would not mount and would not eject. I restarted OSX and after restart, got the warning : this is not a readable Macintosh disk, and it ejected. would not be accepted back in.
Btw: I'm not trying to cause trouble for you, but wanted to warn people to be cautious.

[Version 0.3]

Anonymous reviewed on 24 Jan 2003

WARNING: this completely hosed my CDrw so that I cannot even erase it with disk utility now. the machine keeps ejecting it calling it a non-macintosh volume. It did a very weird thing of making a temp file of what was on the CDrw already, then tried to write back to CDrw an empty folder of the same size as what was on there before (ony 33mb), making a useless sized CDrw, and then kicked it out, and then it couldnt be reinserted normally. I was able once to access it through disk utility but unable to resurrect it.

[Version 0.3]

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