D1660@AppleLink.Apple.COM (SoftPlus, Paul Cozza,PRT) (08/19/90)
Recently there was a report of a "loophole" in SAM. The report said that SAM would not scan floppies if the standard file dialog was present and a floppy was ejected. This report is not accurate. SAM's floppy scanning mechanism works in this way. If a floppy is freshly mounted, then SAM will scan it (depending upon the option selected for scanning). If a floppy is ejected, but NOT unmounted, then when the floppy is inserted again, SAM will not then rescan it, since it is not being mounted. This is true whether standard file is present or not. However, when one ejects a floppy from standard file, standard file does NOT unmount the floppy. It only ejects it. Hence any floppies which had been ejected with standard file would not be rescanned by SAM when reinserted. If some other behaviour is being observed then some other program (INIT, etc.) is probably interfering with SAM's scanning mechanism. Paul Cozza Author of SAM