Apps do not show up in the Macintosh.js folder

[Ath3nian]

I was trying to move an application folder over from an old drive. The folder itself was not seen so I then moved the contents of the folder over. The files were seen but the apps were not. How can I install apps to the emulator?

Thank you for the effort, so much fun to see the old desktop 👍

[travis-mark]

I had a similar issue when grabbing (Hypercard. If I put it in an apps folder to organize, nothing was visible in the macintosh.js folder. If I put it in the main folder directly, nothing is still visible in the macintosh.js folder, but a mounted image is visible on the desktop.

[Grandesigns]

Similar issue under OSX 10.15.6 - trying to add Asterax (http://macintoshgarden.org/games/asterax) - neither the sit file nor the decompressed folder show up when put into the Macintosh JS directory.

[TJung1968]

I’m having the same issue with SimCity2000: The SimCity folder gets listed but it appears to be empty (with v1.0.4, didn’t try 1.0.5 so far).

[loshlee]

Running on Mac (latest Mojave). My 68K or FAT apps are seen as documents when added to the Macintosh.js folder in my Home folder. On a 68K Mac, I would normally rebuild the Desktop as instructed in the OS 8 help to remedy this issue. Holding down command-option keys at startup doesn't seem to make it happen. Is there a different way to emulate it?

No new files added to the Macintosh.js folder in the home folder would appear when I restarted Macintosh.js, so I used AppClean to delete the existing copy of Macintosh.js along with all it's related files, then downloaded a new copy. Now files and apps again appear when added to the folder.

[polanfong]

My apps are seen as documents. Also I had a bunch of .image files in the ~/macintosh.js folder which seems to make it hang on startup.