Mac Faq?

enossified · 11-29-2007, 09:04 AM

Hello,

Can somebody direct me to a primer page that lays out the anatomy of a (clean) OS9 system?

I'm not a noob at MACs, but I support a number of G3s & G4s that are all running OS9 or OS9.1, and there's one G3 in particular that occasionally crashes and leaves me stumped. I suspect the user is accidentally moving the system folder around, and over the course of (ten?) years the OS has become very cluttered with multiple copies of system and preference files nestling within each other.

As a result, I occasionally spend a week going back and forth getting a printer to work here, getting the scanner to work there, and could save a lot of time if I knew, for instance, that the Netscape app should be located in this folder, and it's preferences should be located in that folder ... (and _not_ in these folders here).

Thanks,

Peter

sinclair_tm · 11-29-2007, 09:41 PM

wow, that would be difficult to do, but i'll see if i can get a list generated from my mac, which has a rather clean install of os 9 on it.

enossified · 12-04-2007, 07:49 AM

That would be great. Thanks for your help!

sinclair_tm · 12-04-2007, 11:10 AM

hope you can wait a couple of weeks. Its finials now, so it will not be until after that.

enossified · 12-07-2007, 04:02 PM

absolutely no hurry...thanks for your help & 'break a leg' with finals.

11-29-2007, 09:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
enossified Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vermont Posts: 5 OS: XP	Mac Faq? Hello, Can somebody direct me to a primer page that lays out the anatomy of a (clean) OS9 system? I'm not a noob at MACs, but I support a number of G3s & G4s that are all running OS9 or OS9.1, and there's one G3 in particular that occasionally crashes and leaves me stumped. I suspect the user is accidentally moving the system folder around, and over the course of (ten?) years the OS has become very cluttered with multiple copies of system and preference files nestling within each other. As a result, I occasionally spend a week going back and forth getting a printer to work here, getting the scanner to work there, and could save a lot of time if I knew, for instance, that the Netscape app should be located in this folder, and it's preferences should be located in that folder ... (and _not_ in these folders here). Thanks, Peter

12-04-2007, 07:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
enossified Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vermont Posts: 5 OS: XP	Re: Mac Faq? That would be great. Thanks for your help!

12-07-2007, 04:02 PM	#5 (permalink)
enossified Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vermont Posts: 5 OS: XP	Re: Mac Faq? absolutely no hurry...thanks for your help & 'break a leg' with finals.