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Gordon Laurie <gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1d2937t.qmz4fp1mfbe6gN@p50.nas2.is2.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:
> 
> >From: Rebecca and Rowland
> >Organization: The Pietertje Geeltje van der Sluis fan club
> 
> Never heard of him (?)

I can tell - it's a her.

> >> What hassle?
> >
> >A man with no third-party extensions, obviously...
> 
> In my dreams mate. I have 4 rows of extensions at startup.

Clearly careful in your choice of extensions (either that, or a very
small monitor ;-)

[snip]

> This simply hasn't happened in my experience, the only thing that I
> remember breaking was Popup Folder under OS 8.
>
>  I never used crap like After Dark, Greg's Buttons, Now Utilities etc etc
> so maybe that's how I avoided most of the hassles you mention.

Ah...  There was quite a lot that needed changing going from 7.1 to 7.6;
I've not used After Dark, Greg's Buttons and anything like that either.
Some things like SuperClock could simply be dropped; others like
MenuDropper broke and needed replacing (this is from memory).  A long
slow tedious process of testing each extension, fiddling around, maybe
finding a new one, etc.  And then it took *much* longer to deal with the
flaky system I had afterwards - solved (in the end) by zapping the PRAM,
something I'd not had to do before.

> As far as Apple installers go, I tend to do custom installs whenever
> possible to avoid the problems you mention, 

<gritted teeth>  It was the custom install using the 7.6 installer that
dumped the crap in my System Folder - it just ignored what I told it to
do and installed every bloody thing in sight, for PowerPC Macs and all
(I've got a 60LC040 Perform 475).  The standard install was much better.

>Conflict Catcher is handy for
> dumping useless stuff from just one menu as well. 
> 
> Overall I don't think that any update to a System has taken more than half
> an hour.

Installling System 7.6 took me several hours in the first place, several
hours on a subsequent day to deal with the various broken and obsolete
extensions etc., and much longer than that to find out which things I
could safely remove from the extensions folder.  Maybe if you've gone
from 7.5 to 7.5.x to 7.6 you won't have had any problems like going from
7.1 to 7.6.  And maybe the custom install actually *works* on PPCs.

Rowland.

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