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| Author: | John_Vella [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
Hi, I have taken on a small project which involves creating a CD/DVD with some HTML files that is going to be given to people who use PCs and Macs. I need the CD to automatically open a web browser and display the first page, which would be index.htm, (or html if it matters) I can do this on a PC, no problem, but it didn't do anything on the Mac I tested it on and I was wondering if you guys and gals knew of a way of making it happen. Thanks in advance, John. 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
I don't think there's a way of autorunning from a CD on the Mac. I may be wrong, but it's been that way since virtually the beginning. Your best bet is to make it obvious that someone needs to double-click the HTML start page to get things running. |
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
Apparently Apple stopped CDs autorunning in Mac OS X (for whatever reason). This link may be of some assistance to you. Mark |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
At best you could make the CD open a Finder window showing the contents... I have seen trickery to hide the Windows content of CDs on OS X, you could try that and only show index.htm ? I'll have a dig around... |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:36 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? | |||||||||
This might help: clicky |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
I think after there was a worm scare in OS 8/9 the autorun thing was rightly thought of as Bad Idea. I may be wrong, but I remember there being updates after that came to light. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
Autorun is a bad idea. I have it disabled by policy on all the Windows machines as work. |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
Thanks for the replys guys. I'll have a look at the links when I get home, but it's beginning to look as though the OS X users may have to double click the html files... ho hum
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:09 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? | |||||||||
You could auto run CDs - it was an option in your System 8 control panels. The problem was that there was a virus for the Mac doing the rounds which relied on CDs auto running. The advice at the time was to switch that option off. I guess that’s the reason why. |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
This might be a silly question, but as I don't have a Mac I don't know, but what happens when you put magazine* CDs/DVDs into your computers? Do they autorun, or do you have to double click an icon? I'm thinking MacUser type mags... Oh, hang on - that still sounds dodgy 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
Most Mac mags that had/have discs won't have an auto-run feature at all, because it generally won't work. Usually the disc just mounts to the desktop and you double-click it. From there, if there's a "Start Here" type icon, you can run the application by double-clicking it. Anything that autoruns in my book is a pain in the ass. I may be stuffing disc into my machine as I work on something else. I don't want to find my work interrupted by whatever the disc contains. But that's just my jaundiced and grumpy view of such things.
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| Author: | Nick [ Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? |
I even find the OS dialog window "youve just put a disk in the drive - what do you want to do with it" annoying. |
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| Author: | davrosG5 [ Sat May 01, 2010 6:45 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? | |||||||||
You know you can turn that off right? System Prefs>CD/DVD> Change the drop down from Ask What To Do to Ignore |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Wed May 05, 2010 11:24 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Creating a CD/DVD that will autorun in OSX? | |||||||||
The Autostart Worm. |
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