It's hard to imagine what XTree had in mind when it designed XTreeMac. Some features of this disk-management system are unique, and a couple could be handy, but the execution of the program as a whole leaves much to be desired.
WHAT IT IT The chief task of Finder replacements and enhancements is to make the Mac even easier to use. XTreeMac has promise but doesn't deliver. Worse, the program is plagued by bugs that disqualify it from serious consideration.
The basic metaphor of XTreeMac is a good one: Each mounted disk appears on a file card, and you pick the disk you want to make active by clicking on a tab. All folders, documents, and applications appear in alphabetical order and you can select how many levels will he shown when you start the program.
XTreeMac lets you launch applications and documents by simply doubleclicking on them and adds a function to move files across disks to supplement the Finder’s limited copying ability. A complete Get Info function gives you control over a file's type and creator as well as over programmers' status bits.
One fascinating feature of the package is Revive-A-File, an INIT and invisible-file combination that can restore as many as the last 100 deleted files on your system. When you drag a file to the trash, space opens up on your disk, but you can recover the file by dragging it out of a special Deleted Files folder. (If you save anything to disk, however, you might overwrite a deleted File before you can recover it.)
Documents, folders, and applications from many disks can be gathered on a “deskpad" for group copying, moving, or deleting. It's a minor convenience for working with lots of tiles,
XTreeMac lets you create “filters,” which you can use to display only certain applications or documents. It's possible, for instance, to build a filter that displays only paint or draw files, or only files created by FreeHand. You can also put applications onto a pull-down menu so you won't have to root through file trees to find a favorite program.
HOW IT WORKS The program has some serious difficulties. XTreeMac scans every mounted drive — whether it is local or on a network — and tries to keep up-to-date with every change on every drive. Pulling that volume of information across a network can bring the network to its knees. To its credit, the manual says that the program shouldn't be used on a network, but you don't find that out until after you’ve bought the program.
XTree also has problems dealing with floppy disks inserted while the program is active, ejecting and requesting the same floppy over and over. If the floppy ts locked or is in the old MFS format, XTree goes into conniptions. It's impossible to get XTree to stop asking for the disk: the only solution is to reboot.
XTreeMac can create attractive disk labels, but the method for using more than a single label on a sheet of stock is not immediately obvious.
XTree Company will ship updates to version 1.02 to all registered users, The new versions solve reported MultiFinder-re1ated bugs that cause problems when large applications such as Excel and PageMaker are launched from XTreeMac.
XTree is the preeminent disk-management package in the MS-DOS world. XTreeMac, even though it harbors some excellent ideas, comes up short in the execution.
Resenbaum, Daniel J. (September 1989). XTreeMac. MacUser. (pgs. 81-82).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Mini vMac
