ImageDisk project is canceled

This thread is like a soap opera. If you offer to program a utility for the "comunity" you should expect a decent amount of email in reply that runs from praise to ridicule. People will be bugging you to add features you probably dont have time for. Others will want to see the sourcecode because they want to see how it is done, to take the guts and modify the interface, just to have it, or maybe even to modify and sell. You should think about what you are getting into before going public. The reason there are not alot of multi platform disk archivers is because the person doing the programming on their own gets bored with the project, or quits in the middle of it when somebody gets on their nerves. The tools I use for backing up and restoring disk images are platform dependant and that is fine with me. I find groups of programmers for specific platforms tend to finish their utilities because they need them for their hobby, and if one person loses motivation another takes his place. I am not criticising anybody for attempting to go it alone, but it is easy for the developer to get a bruised ego because they take any criticism personally while a team of developers (with a smaller platform specific project) tend to ignore the chatter and turn out a project they are happy with. There are pitfalls to going public with a project, if being in the spotlight and everything associated with that is not your thing then think twice about going public in the first place.