On Sep 28, 2004, at 3:50 PM, MMB wrote:
I am a long-time Mac owner and have kept my previous machines happy by regular desktop re-building. I have been using my Powerbook G4 867 for three months now and I am concerned. SOme cleaning up and tidying must be needed but how.
If you don't leave the system on overnight at least once a week, get something like MacJanitor and manually run the various cron scripts that normally run at 3AM. This rotates logs, cleans up temp files, etc etc.
Ah! I was wunderin what our new PB was doing last night! And here I figured it was playing Chess.
There is no 'desktop' to rebuild, per se.
How does OS X associate file -> app?
Da reason I'm asking... I copied a bunch of ancient MacInTax and TurboTax documents from our old PB (G3; OS 9.2.2) to our new PowerBook (15" G4; Panther). Also copied a folder that contains each tax app, going back to '95, and their prefs.
On my old PB, under OS 9, double-clicking an older tax data file automagically opened the older/matching tax app. But now under Panther, they all launch the newest app only. I have to manually launch the older app then open the file from within. How do I fix this in OS X?
Aside: Apparently Intuit's installers were pretty dumb. All the installs since going to OS 9 on the old PB include the OS X vers of the app too. So the most recent few years of apps don't start/require Classic. Of course those older installers won't run at all under Panther or its Classic -- which is why I did the mass-copy.
Thx, - Dan.
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