Just over a month ago Dave gave me some hints on how to resolve my
problem getting at Classic from my administrator's account.
Despite trashing every preference file I could find that may have had
an effect there was no improvement in the situation.
I will probably continue to fiddle with it, but as I can access Office
98 from my kids' account I'll do that for now and, in time, buy Office
X or something to reduce my reliance on Classic (work has finally moved
onto Office XP after all).
Anyway, belated thanks for the advice.
Martin
On 30 Sep 2005, at 13:18, Dave Edwards wrote:
On 30/09/05, Dave Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 28/09/05, Martin sheppard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm used to chasing down extension conflicts in OS7.x and 8.x, but
doing it through OS X seems to be a slightly different ball game.
When
I tried to "sort" the problem using Norton Disk Doctor I succeeded in
crashing the whole machine leaving me with something akin to a black
"screen of death" complete with Unix(?) type prompt. Only some
frantic
CD booting and re-building saved the day.
From what I can tell, Norton's thrown in the towel as regards OSX ...
I guess they can't figure out how to offer a viable and useful version
in the Unix world of OSX.
As to the problem at hand, have you tried trashing the '9' prefs
folder then launching classic as normal with all extensions 'on'? Then
(assuming it works) re-introducing only those prefs you need.
To add to this:
Have a look in the System Folder and see how OS9 is handling the
multiuser configuration - no experience of this but it seems
interesting that this first arose after you created a new OSX account.
Scratching my head trying to recall where all this is kept ... recall
a folder called 'multiuser' with individual prefs folders for the
users.
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