4.14 | APPLEWORKS & MULTIRAM |
Saving very large files does involve some planning and time when you are using standard Apple 5 1/4 inch disk drives.
The first requirement for using large files and floppy disk drives is disks and lots of them. Don’t consider starting a session with one or more large files without having at least three to five blank or recycled disks per large file you will be working with. Any file over 260K will require three blank disks to save the file.
Although you can save a modified large file back to the same disks you originally loaded it from, we do not suggest you do this.
If you overwrite the original file and something happens before you finish saving the file — the power goes out, the disk drive develops a problem, you accidentally open the disk drive door, etc. — you will have lost some, most, or all of the large file you worked long and hard on. Forever. For this reason. please always save your newly modified large files to blank or recycled disks. This will protect the time investment you made in creating your file.
You should consider overwriting an existing set of disks only if you have made one or more backup copies of the set of disks involved.
The second requirement is time sod peace of mind. It will take over a minute to save each full 5 1/4 inch floppy and an equal amount of time to load the segmented file back into memory. A 300K file can take from 3 to 5 minutes to save and load. Don’t be in a hurry when saving large files as you can make mistakes that say later cost you more time. Forgetting to label each disk to show which segment is on what disk, starting to save s file without having bought enough disks, and forgetting to format disks as required causing you to start all over again are but a few mistake you can make when you are impatient.
Saving FilesTo save a large file, whether for the first time or after the file has been loaded from disk, modified and is to he rewritten, follow these steps
1.Determine the file size and number of disks needed to save the file.
Press the Escape key to return to the main menu from the file you are working on. Press “3” to save Desktop files. The save menu shows the size of the file to be saved. Make the size adjustment described under “File Size Differences” in the previous section. Divide the corrected size of the file by 1301 to determine the number of disks required to save the file. Always round up to the next highest number. For example, to save our 3101 film SAMPLE discussed earlier, three disks would be needed.
Press Escape to return to the main menu. D0 NOT save at this time.