Thank you very much. I appreciate your answer as several
of us as in me and my coworkers have been beating our collective
heads over this issue. This probably also means that other
platforms are having issues, also. Since java is not an Apple
product, I thoroughly understand the situation even if it still
makes one grind one's teeth and resort to
swearing. The end result is that it
just plain doesn't work and you can't think your way out of the
problem. I will forward your message to others in our
organization because, as a university, we make heavy use of
Blackboard and, in this case, another educational site which is
heavily infested with java.
We are working to upgrade my work Mac to Moutain Lion
which brings the question, Will that make any difference?
Esther writes:
> I think you've run up against the accessibility issues in the Java
> Preferences Utility, which is why you can't find options to clear your
> temporary files. This issue was discussed on list last year in
> connection with updates a user had to run to update Blackboard, and that
> discussion centered on Lion. However, the same underlying accessibility
> issues for using Java Preferences were true for Snow Leopard. I've
> changed the subject line of the post so people will know this is a
> general issue, especially for academic web sites of different sorts that
> use Java for course materials, and not specific to the fact that you were
> using Snow Leopard. You'll find most of the relevant posts if you search
> the Mail Archive for this list, and enter a search string like:
> from:Esther java preferences
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