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From: Al on 25 Dec 2005 10:53 I have a new used blue G3 which is a dual boot 9.2.2 and OSX. I recently loaded some software the the icons are messed up, they are the default little blanks. My son said to rebuild the desktop. However I hesitate to do this. Why? Because I rebuilt the desktop on my G4 dual boot apple about a year ago and it really screwed it up. I lost all my comments and had to "reconnect" all of my files to their apps. Now when I did that, I was logged into 9.2.2. Should I rebuild the desktop from within OSX? Can you rebuild the desktop within OSX or is there something else that happens? Al
From: Tom Stiller on 25 Dec 2005 11:14 In article <no.spam-0E857C.10532525122005(a)news.verizon.net>, Al <no.spam(a)wanted.com> wrote: > I have a new used blue G3 which is a dual boot 9.2.2 and OSX. I recently > loaded some software the the icons are messed up, they are the default > little blanks. My son said to rebuild the desktop. However I hesitate to > do this. > > Why? > > Because I rebuilt the desktop on my G4 dual boot apple about a year ago > and it really screwed it up. I lost all my comments and had to > "reconnect" all of my files to their apps. > > Now when I did that, I was logged into 9.2.2. Should I rebuild the > desktop from within OSX? Can you rebuild the desktop within OSX or is > there something else that happens? > As I recall, Mac OS 9 had an option to preserve desktop comments when rebuilding the Desktop. Mac OS X uses a different mechanism for storing desktop comments. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Jon on 25 Dec 2005 14:22 Al <no.spam(a)wanted.com> wrote: > Can you rebuild the desktop within OSX or is > there something else that happens? You can indeed rebuild _Classic's_ Desktop from within OS X (System Preferences --> Classic). However, OS X itself doesn't use a Desktop file. -- /Jon For mail address, run the following in Terminal: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc Skype: storhaugen _________________________________________ Usenet Zone Free Binaries Usenet Server More than 140,000 groups Unlimited download http://www.usenetzone.com to open account
From: Derek Currie on 27 Dec 2005 10:25 What you want it to rebuild in MOS 9.2.2 using TechTool Lite, the last version of which is 3.0.4. Among the many things it does is: 1) Backup your comments, and restore them after the rebuild. 2) Completely delete your desktop database so that a clean, uncorrupted database can be created. (It is fairly common for the desktop database to corrupt, a problem that is not solved by a rebuild. Your 'reconnect' problem sounds like DB corruption). <http://www.micromat.com/tt_lite/tt_lite.html> Be sure to check out the other features it offers. Share and Enjoy, :-Derek In article <no.spam-0E857C.10532525122005(a)news.verizon.net>, Al <no.spam(a)wanted.com> wrote: > I have a new used blue G3 which is a dual boot 9.2.2 and OSX. I recently > loaded some software the the icons are messed up, they are the default > little blanks. My son said to rebuild the desktop. However I hesitate to > do this. > > Why? > > Because I rebuilt the desktop on my G4 dual boot apple about a year ago > and it really screwed it up. I lost all my comments and had to > "reconnect" all of my files to their apps. > > Now when I did that, I was logged into 9.2.2. Should I rebuild the > desktop from within OSX? Can you rebuild the desktop within OSX or is > there something else that happens? > > Al -- "To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I have ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard." -Bill Gates
From: Nullibicity on 30 Dec 2005 09:19 In article <derekcurrie-BA49C1.10251427122005(a)syrcnyrdrs-03-ge0.nyroc.rr.com>, Derek Currie <derekcurrie(a)mac.com> wrote: > What you want it to rebuild in MOS 9.2.2 using TechTool Lite, the last > version of which is 3.0.4. Among the many things it does is: > > 1) Backup your comments, and restore them after the rebuild. > 2) Completely delete your desktop database so that a clean, uncorrupted > database can be created. (It is fairly common for the desktop database > to corrupt, a problem that is not solved by a rebuild. Your 'reconnect' > problem sounds like DB corruption). > > <http://www.micromat.com/tt_lite/tt_lite.html> > > Be sure to check out the other features it offers. > > Share and Enjoy, > > :-Derek > > > In article <no.spam-0E857C.10532525122005(a)news.verizon.net>, > Al <no.spam(a)wanted.com> wrote: > > > I have a new used blue G3 which is a dual boot 9.2.2 and OSX. I recently > > loaded some software the the icons are messed up, they are the default > > little blanks. My son said to rebuild the desktop. However I hesitate to > > do this. > > > > Why? > > > > Because I rebuilt the desktop on my G4 dual boot apple about a year ago > > and it really screwed it up. I lost all my comments and had to > > "reconnect" all of my files to their apps. > > > > Now when I did that, I was logged into 9.2.2. Should I rebuild the > > desktop from within OSX? Can you rebuild the desktop within OSX or is > > there something else that happens? > > > > Al Commentator is also a great program to try. It creates a text file backup containing all the comments in a disk's desktop file, and can add them to a newly created desktop file. -- Nullibicity http://www.nullibicity.com/
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