jrwil
Well-known member
Word 6 for Mac was panned as the worst version ever, but I think it gets a bad rap. I like to use it on my Power Mac 6500 with System 7.6.1. Given that the hard drive could rattle its cage at any moment, I wanted to automate the shuttling of my documents to the cloud.
Somebody's got to have a better solution than what I did, so chime in, but here's my workaround: In System 7, mount a separate "bridge" Mac that's always on and save documents there. Then connect the bridge Mac to a WebDAV server and tell it to periodically copy documents to the server.
The highest Mac OS that System 7 can mount is 10.4.11 Tiger. For a Tiger machine, I bought a 2005 iMac off eBay for $30. Popular cloud services such as Dropbox dropped Tiger support years ago, but it is plenty capable of mounting a WebDAV server with Go --> Connect To Server. I use GoDaddy's service. Tiger gives me a certificate error every time it mounts, but it never seems to drop the share, which is nice.
Mount the Tiger machine on System 7 with Chooser --> AppleShare --> Enter IP Address.
On the Tiger machine, to push the documents to the server, I first created a workflow in Automator:
Finder --> Get Specified Finder Items --> [Add your backup folder]
Finder --> Copy Finder Items --> To: [Add your mounted WebDAV server] (Check "Replace Existing Files")
File --> Save As Plug-In.
Name it something and save as a Plug-in for "iCal Alarm."
Then, I created events in iCal that repeat every day and call the plug-in as the event's Alarm. When creating the events, set the iCal alarm to Open File. The alarm you created should be in the list already. Since I wanted this process to run three times per day, I have three events at different times that each repeat every day.
Those of you who are more adept at scripts could spin off plenty of other capabilities.
I don't know if it matters, but I dumped all the updates on this System7Today page on the PowerMac, which includes AppleShare 3.8.3.
Why not just leave the files on the Mac Mini? I don't trust it, either! The other bonus is the Mac Mini makes for an easy way to shuttle files between High Sierra and System 7.
Cheers.
Somebody's got to have a better solution than what I did, so chime in, but here's my workaround: In System 7, mount a separate "bridge" Mac that's always on and save documents there. Then connect the bridge Mac to a WebDAV server and tell it to periodically copy documents to the server.
The highest Mac OS that System 7 can mount is 10.4.11 Tiger. For a Tiger machine, I bought a 2005 iMac off eBay for $30. Popular cloud services such as Dropbox dropped Tiger support years ago, but it is plenty capable of mounting a WebDAV server with Go --> Connect To Server. I use GoDaddy's service. Tiger gives me a certificate error every time it mounts, but it never seems to drop the share, which is nice.
Mount the Tiger machine on System 7 with Chooser --> AppleShare --> Enter IP Address.
On the Tiger machine, to push the documents to the server, I first created a workflow in Automator:
Finder --> Get Specified Finder Items --> [Add your backup folder]
Finder --> Copy Finder Items --> To: [Add your mounted WebDAV server] (Check "Replace Existing Files")
File --> Save As Plug-In.
Name it something and save as a Plug-in for "iCal Alarm."
Then, I created events in iCal that repeat every day and call the plug-in as the event's Alarm. When creating the events, set the iCal alarm to Open File. The alarm you created should be in the list already. Since I wanted this process to run three times per day, I have three events at different times that each repeat every day.
Those of you who are more adept at scripts could spin off plenty of other capabilities.
I don't know if it matters, but I dumped all the updates on this System7Today page on the PowerMac, which includes AppleShare 3.8.3.
Why not just leave the files on the Mac Mini? I don't trust it, either! The other bonus is the Mac Mini makes for an easy way to shuttle files between High Sierra and System 7.
Cheers.