Received the following from Kevin O'Neill @ Apple. I haven't tried it yet,
but skimming through it sounds like it could be the fix!
-Jackie Fonley
I haven't read fully or tried this but it should work.
Tested on 10.2.6
When you run PageMaker in OS 9 (booted into OS 9), you would run into
an issue of having to delete the ALDTMPxx files once you reached 100 of
these temp files. When running PM in Classic, as a non-admin user, it
would start then quit without giving any indication as to why it quit.
Under normal operation, an ALDTMPxx file gets created in /Temporary
Items every time PM is launched. When I checked the Temporary Items
folder on the local drive, it had 100 ALDTMPxx files and they were all
created at the same time. This was telling me one of two things:
1) someone launched PM 100 times in one minute or less which is
impossible since PM takes 5-10 seconds to launch
or
2) PM was caught in some type of loop that caused it to create 100
ALDTMP files in a matter of a few seconds...this is where I started
looking
Customer had an eMac setup that allowed any user (not just an admin
user) to run PM successfully so there was something unique on this
system that was allowing this to happen. Looking at the privileges of
the Temporary Items folder on this eMac, we discovered that the
Everyone permission was set to R/W, but was set to R on the other
systems. When logged in as an admin user, the ALDTMP file that was
created after launching PM would disappear after quitting PM (a good
thing). After doing some testing on a "PM not working" computer, we
discovered that if we set the Everyone permissions for the Temporary
Items folder to R/W, ANY user on that computer could successfully
launch and use PM...almost finished. One thing we discovered was that
a folder was created in the Temporary Items folder bearing the UID of a
user that launched PM on the computer and it was in this folder that
the ALDTMPxx files for THAT USER got created. These ALDTMPxx files
were NOT removed by the system or PM when the user quit PM, so just
like in OS 9, if a particular user launched PM 100 times on a
particular computer, someone would have to delete the ADLTMP files for
that user if that user wanted to run PM on that same computer again.
Here's what the Temporary Items folder would look like if the admin
user (UID 502) and Joe Doe (UID 2004123) launched PM several times on a
computer:
Temporary Items
502 (a folder named 502)
Temporary Items (a folder...empty)
2004123 (a folder named 2004123)
Temporary Items (a folder)
ALDTMP00
ALDTMP01
ALDTMP02
Notice that the admin users Temporary Items folder is empty. we
figured it was because the admin user had more rights than Joe Doe and
apparently PM is able to delete the ALDTMP file when the admin user
quits PM.
We noticed that on some systems, the Temporary Items folder was not
visible in the finder, but from Terminal (ls -al) it was there. It
didn't make any difference in our testing whether the folder was
visible or not.
The overall fix was to set the Everyone permissions of the Temporary
Items folder (at the root of the HD) to R/W. This causes some concern
for me because now there is location on the local drive which allows
users to save locally. If this folder is invisible, then this would
not be very likely.
So how do I delete the ALDTMPxx files? You'll need to enable the root
account on the computer, then delete everything inside the Temporary
Items folder. The easiest way (for me) to delete the files is to log
in as root and perform a search of the local drive for ALDTMP. From
the search results window, drag ALL the ALDTMPxx files to the Trash and
empty the Trash. Use your favorite deletion tool here.
You should now be ready to use PM
Again, the steps to set this up:
log in as root
from the command line, rm -r /Temporary\ Items This will delete the
Temporary Items folder if it exists
Launch PM this will create the Temporary Items folder (we want an
empty folder)
Quit PM
from the command line, chmod 757 /Temporary\ Items to set the
Everyone permissions to R/W
log out, log in as a regular user, launch PM to verify it works
Once you've verified PM works for a regular user, you might want to
disable root for security reasons
Occasionally delete ALDTMP files as described above
> Jackie,
> I installed OSX and ended up calling tech support to open all ClarisWorks
> applications. Have they any ideas?
> Sr. Brigid
> Humboldt
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> From: "jackie fonley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "info tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:40 PM
> Subject: [info-tech] pagemaker
>
>
>> Over the summer we upgraded all lab computers to OS X Jaguar. I am now
>> experiencing problems opening Pagemaker (6.5) It works on some of the
>> computers, but not on all. All my other OS 9 applications seem to be
>> working fine. Also, when I log on as administrator it works. I'm
> guessing
>> it has something to do with home folders/directories? Any suggestions as
> to
>> what I'm missing? I have a yearbook teacher getting impatient. Thanks!
>> -Jackie Fonley
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