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Authored by: bhines on Jan 05, '02 07:29:29PM

You should have done some more investigation before editing the file - IE look at the modification time and search for other files modified at the same time to see what did this to your system.



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hmm
Authored by: mervTormel on Jan 05, '02 11:48:24PM

yep. i gotta agree with this. old school mac users ( of which i am one ) often apply the quick solution to a problem without considering these consequenses.

though you discovered another customization, the reason of the original munging is probably lost.

both would have been interesting-er and clever-er.

a lot (too many) mac users are compelled to customize visuals, but to what end?

seems to me it is rather foolish and creates a maintenence nightmare post-system-upgrades.

what compelling reason was there for moving the mail application and creating nightmare upgrade issues?

leave a distributed OS as is. customize what is useful you you and know/manage what will be stomped on by upgrades.

my two cents

-b



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Authored by: skab on Jan 06, '02 08:18:34PM

I put all those Apple apps to a dedicated "Apple" folder, since I rarely use any of them, but don't want to scrap them altogether. I want a clean dir structure, so I put all apps into theme-folders like Graphics, Audio, Web etc., then app folders like "iTunes 2.0.3" (with version numbers, so I know immediately what version I got on my drive), then the app itself (without version numbers, since that looks ugly in the Dock).

But since I'm a clever guy, I put all Apple apps back to the original, App folder level before I start an updater ;-)

BTW, I also tried out Xounds, and it if really is the culprit (please confirm! If it is, they'll get an ugly mail from me!), it didn't do any harm to *my* System Prefs app - since it wasn't where Apple put it ;-)) There you are, this way I prevented the Xounds "update", too...

But I 100% agree, this customizing-to-death is totally pointless, like this stupid swap-partition-thing. Leave the system as far as possible as it was when it was installed (I more or less only change the apps folder levels), and you won't get any problems. From all Unix-like systems I ever tried or heard of this is the by far best configured one, out of the box. You just put a CD in the drive, click on some buttons and after a while you got a great desktop OS, a great small scale web server including PHP4, whatever. Just great. So leave it as it is, and let Apple do the updating...



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My machine is always tweaked!
Authored by: robg on Jan 06, '02 01:15:18AM

In the course of investingating stuff for the site, my machine is always in a state of disarrary :-). I don't really pay that much attention to it when things aren't normal, since, well, that's the normal situation.

Glad to see that someone figured out that it was Xounds!

-rob.



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