Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Remove Classic cleanly' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Remove Classic cleanly
Authored by: windrag on May 06, '05 02:10:49AM

Well, I went for it, with no ill effects so far. I tried the instructions from the original hint, but I was still getting the Preference Pane showing up. Every time I would launch System Preferences, the ~/Library/Classic folder was being created again. I decided to get dirty and delete the System/Library/PreferencePanes/Classic.prefPane and System/Library/CoreServices/Classic Startup.app. No problems yet. YMMV. Be careful!

---
Ryk A. Groetchen
700MHz iBook 16 VRAM G3
640MB RAM
OS X 10.4



[ Reply to This | # ]
Remove Classic cleanly
Authored by: geohar on May 06, '05 03:43:51AM

To me, the whole point was not to touch /System. A fresh install of Tiger or panther will still have those components in /System, but just decides on the fly not to show the Classic Prefpane.

George



[ Reply to This | # ]
Remove Classic cleanly
Authored by: mbogosian on Feb 20, '06 01:31:42PM

Unfortunately, having Classic.prefPane around still impacts the system, even if OS9 is not present. For example, in a fresh install of Tiger without OS9, every time a volume is mounted, several "Classic" things happen for that volume:

  • the (hidden and useless-for-OS-X) files Desktop\ D* are created at the root level
  • /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Classic.prefPane/Contents/Resources/ClassicPrefHWTest is run (which can be very time consuming and disk-intensive for large file systems)

As far as I know, there is no way to turn off that behavior without either removing /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Classic.prefPane or renaming it (e.g., to Classic.prefPane.off). That is unless I am missing something.

Can someone speak more intelligently on this?



[ Reply to This | # ]