Public Folder

Public Folder was an early file sharing utility for Macintosh System 6 created by Michael Peirce at Claris.DiskStatus & AppSizer by Adam Engst, TidBITS. 1992-05-25.
==Description==
Public Folder was accessed through the Chooser and brought up a simple dialog box in which the user selected what file to fetch from another Mac on an AppleTalk network that also had the Public Folder extension installed.AppleTalk by BasalGangster, The Long View. 2012-03-01. Version 1.0, dated September 20, 1989, was distributed to users for free. It was updated to version 1.01 in 1991.Disk #25.07 — Pi 7: The Best of the Pi, Washington Apple Pi Journal, p.88. 1991-10.
===Compatibility and discontinuation===
Claris issued an advisory that installing Public Folder with Vaccine 1.01 and Mirror by Central Point Software on the same Mac would cause it to crash upon startup.Claris Technical Brief, mini'app'les newsletter, vol.14, no.6, p.22. The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group. 1991-06. The utility fell out of use after System 7 introduced file sharing as a standard feature in 1991.Utilities: Public Folder by Erica Kerwien, Hints & Tips for the Macintosh, p.177. MacUser. 1992.
==References==
Category:Classic Mac OS utilities
Category:Discontinued Claris software
Category:Freeware
Category:Networking utilities
Category:System 6
Category:1989 introductions