12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
8:25 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:34 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Classic Mac OS had binary preference files, but half the time they could
be easily modified with ResEdit, and with very few exceptions, most
applications could at least handle having their preference files deleted as
basically performing a "factory reset".
We had a procedure for that at the Mac Shop. We could almost always
repair a old
(system 7-9 era) "clean" install, and restore all the users
settings before the System munched itself.
...and, you could usually easily work out which "extension" was knackering
the thing up...
..and, you could mount an unbootable volume easily (although I think Apple
would have freaked if they knew what we did to do that...)
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