Snapshot icons on volatile mediums (e.g. Ram Disk) SnapVol is a small program which creates an AmigaDOS notify request on a file and whenever the file is changed, copies it to another place. This can be used for example to snapshot the disk.info icon of the Ram Disk. Installation 1. copy SnapVol to C: 2. choose a file which you want to monitor, for example ram:disk.info 3. choose a place where the permanent copy of the file should be stored, for example s:ram_disk.info 4. add the following line to your s:user-startup: run >nil: C:SnapVol s:ram_disk.info ram:disk.info This line replaces any copy instruction which you might have in your user-startup to replace the Ram Disk icon. When run, SnapVol first copies s:ram_disk.info to ram:disk.info, then it monitors ram:disk.info and on every change, it copies the file back. For systems with DefIcons44 running (i.e. OS 3.5 and OS 3.9) a better place to store the permanent copy is envarc:sys/def_ram.info as this is the place where the icon is taken from by default. Is it useful for OS 3.9 and above ? Not really. With BoingBag2 for OS 3.9 a new Ram-Handler is supplied which supports soft links. So for OS 3.9 the better solution is to add this line to s:user-startup: makelink ram:disk.info envarc:sys/def_ram.info soft +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The program is provided as-is. It has only been tested on my machine and | | there is no guarantee that it runs on others or that it does not cause | | any damage. Use it on your own risk ! | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+