Along with keyboard shortcuts, I like to collect lists of
diagnostic steps, so I can give them to newbies.
One that I never see mentioned was told to me by a guy that was
tech support for Macs on our local campus for years. For every type of
system installed he kept a virgin copy of the System Suitcase, with a text
file noting the precise number of bytes in its size.
He said that especially after Netscape hangs, some code would get
written to the Suitcase and it was not uncommon to see that it had grown
anywhere up to 600k!
WHen I began to keep these, and accurate records of the size, I
also began to notice that certain non-Netscape hangs would make the
Suitcase smaller than it should be.
In either case, after trashing the usual prefs, popping in a fresh
Suitcase often straightens things right out and is a pretty painless repair.
In this perspective, the Finder never seems to corrupt.
chriss
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 23:36:08 -0700
From: bob bellerue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Duo2400] Re: From OS9 to OS8.5 (then 8.6)
i highly discourage throwing away your system folder. if anything,
trash the Finder, core System items and System suitcase. i always
save my 3rd party inits, control panels, as well as Prefs for many
things.
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