I suggest you make a backup of your system folder or at least the extensions folder incase this happens to you!Īpples File Exchange control panel needed for USB camera and card reader support: Charlie had issues with his USB camera and then bought a USB camera card reader to try and fix the problem.
Has anyone else tried ATI's USB TV system yet? If so please email me if it worked OK or not. For some reason it removed his OT extensions? (They are needed for networking) Thanks Vash.
Some are symbolic links / aliases, and some are directories.ĪTI USB TV software install may remove OpenTransport extensions!: Vash emailed to let me know of his issue with installing ATI's new USB TV tuner on his 6400. Here's the complete list of directories you need to trash to really do a clean install: To completely trash everything, you have to use a tool that will show hidden files. Most of them are kept in ~/Library/Preferences, where ~ means the currently logged in user's home directory.
Yes, as you figured, your prefs aren't trashed by getting rid of the visible Mac OS X files. You will need an application that can see and trash invisible files to do this.
Update on trashing OSX to do a clean install: Patrick sent me this info on what files need to be trashed to completely remove OSX. It seems most people are having to zap their PRAM after the update to boot their Macs! I just wanted to emphasize this so you're not left thinking the install destroyed your Mac :) [After installing 9.2.1 and patching with the OldWorld patch, I had to zap the pram before the hard drive would boot up. I think it will take another year before that happens :(Ħ400/6500 needs PRAM zapped after OS 9.2.1 install or they might not boot!: Well this letter I got from Chris pretty much says what most 6400/6500 are going through. So once issues like these are fixed, I could finally leave OS9 behind. Not the best method but it works and it's safe. Luckily, most all OS 9 apps have an eject button in their open/save dialog boxes so I can just select the disk image in one of them and eject it that way. And then you must eject the card before removing it from the reader but OSX does not see the card to be able to eject it. Quite a lot of work to just get the images off the card. It works fine in this manner but I have to open each image in an OS 9 app and then save it to a folder so I can reopen them in an OSX app. Only OS 9 apps can see it and from their open/save dialog boxes. Since the card reader mounts a virtual disk on the desktop for you to access your pictures, this disk image is not displayed in OSX but it is mounted. It did not work at all in OSX 10.0.4 but in 10.1, it runs in the classic environment but with a hitch. Apple has done a great job getting classic to work with more hardware items then it used to be able to but that integration does not extend into OSX native apps. I think it mostly has to do with needing the classic layer to much but it seems to fight me more then just letting me get work done. General feel of the OS - To me, OSX just feels unfinished. Apple needs to find out why OSX needs so much juice while sleeping.ĥ. My iBook uses more battery power while asleep then it used to in OS 9.2.1. Battery usage on notebooks - OSX 10.1 has made great strides in battery drainage issues for iBook and Powerbook users but its still not as good as OS 9.2.1 and older. This may not affect all OSX users but it does affect me with my Oxford 911 chip based firewire case.Ĥ. Also I cannot boot if the FW drive is running and it must be off until after boot.
Firewire support - I know OSX has firewire support but if I try to connect my DV camera and FW hard drive at the same time, iMovie will lockup and I lose all FW use until I reboot. This to me is unacceptable so I cannot switch to OSX until this is fixed or I no longer need classic apps.ģ. Multiple users in OSX are single users in classic - this one really hurts me as I had set up each family member with their own settings in OS 9.2.1 but in OSX running classic apps, they all use the system settings which are the owners (namely mine)! Sure the OSX native apps adhere to the MU settings but all classic apps are treated as single user mode and all share the system preference folder and documents folder instead of the pref and documents folder in each users folder. OSX does not have this feature and I will have to use another method instead.Ģ. This makes it easy for me to see which ones need to be uploaded and which have not changed.
Finder Labels - I use labels to make all my web pages as being updated or not. Here is just a short list of what I would like. Apple releases OSX 10.1 update!: I know must of you cannot run this OS but I just wanted to say that this release, being a huge improvement, has still yet to address my issues with moving fully into OSX.