INSTALLING THE XTRA ON MAC OS 8 AND 9 - Director 8.5

Running under OSX, double-click the installation .dmg file. This will mount a disk named "Arca Database Xtra" on your desktop. To install the Xtra just copy the file "Arca Database Xtra" from the Mac Classic folder to the Xtras folder of your Director 8.5 installation. The final pathname for the Xtra will be for example:

Macintosh HD:OS9 Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:Xtras:Arca Database Xtra

Finally, you need to edit the xtrainfo.txt file to include information about Arca Database Xtra. This information is used by the Shockwave publishing features in Director. The xtrainfo.txt file is located in the directory where Director 8.5 was installed, for example at:

Macintosh HD:OS9 Applications:Macromedia Director 8.5:xtrainfo.txt

Double click the file to open it in SimpleText, or another editor capable of saving plain text files. You need to add the following line to the end of the file:

[#namePPC:"Arca Database Xtra", #nameW32:"Arca.x32"]

Restart Director for the changes to take effect. The Xtra should be listed when you issue the command "put the xtralist" in the message window.