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In article <B0C141A7966811777@cara.demon.co.uk>,
peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:

> How do I restore the "blessed" status of the old system folder (now again
> called "system folder")?

Move the finder out of the System folder to the desktop and then move it
back in again. In fact, even opening and closing the system folder might do
it, but moving the finder out and back in will definitely work if it's a
valid system folder.

Paul Durrant

In article <B0C15936966820356C3@192.168.1.1>,
pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk (Paul Durrant) wrote:

>Move the finder out of the System folder to the desktop and then move it
>back in again.

In fact I solved it in a different way (brute force- I copied the system
file from the Zip again and this time it worked; probably the previous copy
had failed because the "Old System Folder" was still blessed) but your way
is the real thing. Thank you.

-- 
Peter

Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <B0C15936966820356C3@192.168.1.1>,
> pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk (Paul Durrant) wrote:
> 
> >Move the finder out of the System folder to the desktop and then move it
> >back in again.
> 
> In fact I solved it in a different way (brute force- I copied the system
> file from the Zip again and this time it worked; probably the previous copy
> had failed because the "Old System Folder" was still blessed) but your way
> is the real thing. Thank you.

System picker (from http://www.apple.com) lets you have multiple system
folders on one HD; it's happy dealing with the `blessing' problem.

I've had more than one blessed system folder on one HD - it's hellish
confusing.

The approved way of blessing a system folder that I've read about (from
Apple  - which doesn't mean all that much) is to open and close it; I
gather this works with System 6 and up.  I don't know about earlier
versions.  System 2 doesn't seem to care.

Rowland.

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In article <1d1lrl8.157uau51ca77qzN@p19.nas2.is3.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:

>The approved way of blessing a system folder that I've read about (from
>Apple  - which doesn't mean all that much) is to open and close it; I
>gather this works with System 6 and up.  I don't know about earlier
>versions.  System 2 doesn't seem to care.

Ah! System 2...

I once used a two-floppy SE on the Tomorrow's World LAN, all of which was
run from an Mac II server which nowadays wouldn't be thought adequate for
word processing. I can't remember the underlying system software (Jack
Weber knows because he used to maintain it as well as producing a large
part of the programme output). We used MacWrite. The whole programme was
produced on it every week. It was *so* slow, yet so wonderful that in the
end I dumped the PC and got a Mac...

Gosh... The memories.

Nowadays of course TW is linked into the Beeb's main system and the front
end in Windows 95. To be honest, it's quite good. But not that good...

The thought of having more than one blessed system folder on a HD is pretty
confusing I guess. I suppose one reason would be to have several possible
TCP (all right, OT) setups available.

I know this isn't the place but what the hell, the same people read both
groups; what's the way to have alternative TCP/IP setups? Can it be done
with OT without rebooting? I seem to remember that this was a feature
nowadays- is it?

I've set the follow-up to demon.ip.support.mac. 

-- 
Peter

Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1d1lrl8.157uau51ca77qzN@p19.nas2.is3.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:
> 
> >The approved way of blessing a system folder that I've read about (from
> >Apple  - which doesn't mean all that much) is to open and close it; I
> >gather this works with System 6 and up.  I don't know about earlier
> >versions.  System 2 doesn't seem to care.
> 
> Ah! System 2...
> 
> I once used a two-floppy SE on the Tomorrow's World LAN, all of which was
> run from an Mac II server which nowadays wouldn't be thought adequate for
> word processing. I can't remember the underlying system software

It might have been System 2.0 - that was the original OS release for the
SE and Mac II in 1987.

Not so many years ago (1992/93) I was using an Amstrad PC512 (I think it
was called) networked to a 286 file server with a 20MB HD.  We were
stuck with Wordstar 2000.  It was awful, but all of Angel Publishing
used it for editorial copy.  A stupid management decision meant that the
secretarial staff got a Windoze network and MS Word 2.0 about the time I
left.  Amusingly, it never worked right even on the day it was
installed.  The editorial people were due to get Macs, and after seeing
the PC mess, were really rather glad.

[snip]

Rowland.

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