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Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 845

program for opening savefiles.

Ive been using Puppy for a while and now I have a collection of old save files that I want to pull some things out of and then delete...
the problem is I dont want to have to reboot my system over and over to copy the files out.
So I'm looking for something that can allow me to open a save file to a defined directory so i can pull out what I want.

This is what im looking for.

a gtk interface would be nice

Needed functionality:

Ability to mount unencrypted safe files to a user defined directory (I know thats easy to do with the mount command at CL)
Ability to mount encrypted safe files (both heavy and light encrypted) to a user defined diretory (i havent figured out how to do that at the CLI)
Ability to read ext2 and ext3 formatted save files... and preferably with the newer versions of puppy including it... ext4 compatibility as well.
Ability to dismount savefile

GTK interface should only need 3 fields.

savefile path
password if encrypted
path to user defined directory where the save file should be mounted.

GTK interface should only need 2 buttons.

mount
unmount

Compatibility should be with the 4.x and 5.x series puppy versions.
(I dont see why there should be any difference between them)

I dont have the time to work through figuring out how to do this... but i know there are those around here that are bored enough to do so...
And for the person who can produce such a program that can run on, I have 25$ of beer/pizza/whatever money for ya.
Figure a little incentive never hurt anyone. Wink

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 22:05 Post subject:

Hello,
I hate to suggest the obvious, but cant you just click on them?

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 845

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 22:23 Post subject:

Hello,
LOL, yea, I figured it wasnt that simple...
I have no encrypted savefiles to test on, so I have no idea how to mount it with a script.. Seems that would be the only hurdle...
I`m guessing the snippet of code needed is in the initrd, as Puppy mounts the save first... Hmmm..

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 27 Nov 2011, 22:34 Post subject:

Hello,
Lets examine this section more closely:

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 845

this post might help you out as well.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 27 Dec 2011, 18:32 Post subject:

Not quite what you were asking for, but close enough. Just a simple upgrade to the /usr/sbin/filemnt script, so that you can click on encrypted savefiles to mount/unmount them just like you can with the unencrypted ones.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=592056#592056

puppyluvr · Posted: Wed 28 Dec 2011, 03:56 Post subject:

Hello,
Wow, you dont pop up much any more, but when you do... Cool

Nice edit of filemnt, could be very useful...

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

If I remember correctly, when I read about Barry fixing the problem with encrypted pupsave files not being created on USB installs of Puppy he also added the ability to mount encrypted pupsave files by clicking on them and entering your password you used for each encrypted pupsave file.
It would be nice to have that ability added to Lucid and Slacko in the form of a pet file or some other means.
I think he included the fixes in Racy.
So using Racy, one should be able to mount each of the encrypted pupsave files in turn to get the data you need.
Not to worry if you are not running the version of Puppy you want to put the data into.
Just mount that pupsave file to and you should be able to transfer the data you wanted by drag and drop.

How about it guys. Can Barry's modification that lets you mount an encrypted pupsave file be added to your releases??