>You can't just copy the System folder, neither the system file. When you >install a program or a driver, I just don't know anymore where all the >files goes. (Which folder). So if I want to remove it, I just don't know >what to remove. >
Last week I had my OSX 10.2.2 install on my beige G3 get corrupted. The machine would only boot into the UNIX command line with no GUI. It was not single user mode but darwin loading with the finder nowhere to be found. I trashed prefs and did all the tricks listed in the apple TID's to no avail. I have spent so many years fooling around in the system folder under Mac classic OS's that just seemed the normal way to go about fixing it. A tidbit in -Mac OSX the missing manual- saved me. Under OS9 the apps have many fingers in the system folder and the OS and that is what I was used to but under OSX they do not. So a complete reinstall of the OS can be done without affecting my apps OR docs. That was a real mind shift for me. No fear of blowing out all my settings and prefs? Whaoa! I booted from my OSX install disk and selected the option to use the current user accounts on the drive and installed a fresh copy of the OS. Then I patched the install to the latest version. Not one app or doc or user account was affected and everything rolls on just fine. Amazing. My drive was fully restored to the way it was before the problem. -- Thanks, Chuck Leavens Director of Engineering and I.T. WDUQ FM Duquesne University Pittsburgh PA 412-396-5508 -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:g-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:g-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
