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sanpaku_backupI was so happy to have this computer on OS X, finally... everything seemed to be working great. But there was a reason I avoided changing this one over for so long. It seems that something always goes wrong when I do. (Last time it was the monitor going kaput and requiring a six week repair.) Well...
Today I was in Word and TextEdit (for some reason all my Word documents open up as TextEdit in this computer, but no biggee) and copying and pasting something, when Word just disappeared (as did the Classic environment). Went to restart Classic, and every time I did, it brought up something I haven't seen in years: the "Mac bomb." Turning off extensions made no difference.
Several hours' worth of phone calls with Apple Care reps of varying ability later, all that could be done was a clean reinstall of OS 9. The one that came with this computer (iMac) is 9.0. FInally, done. Then you have to upgrade to 9.1 to get to the point where it will integrate with OS X in all your applications.
Except that 9.1 lives only on the Apple download site. And I can't get it to install successfully. First it wouldn't mount on the desktop. Then I got a complete download for 9.1, but in 9.0 it just says the file is corrupted and won't work.
So unless I can get up to 9.1 (and thence to 9.2.2.), this computer can't use Word, unless I buy Word for OS X, which I don't feel like doing. The result will probably be work having me buy a dock for their laptop and a keyboard and monitor, and me being bound to a Windows machine.
I'm really annoyed, though. There's no reason for a four-year-old machine to be obsolete already, especially one that basically does everything right. I'd bet that the problem is that they don't keep up the 9.1 file on the download site and that there's something wrong with it. Unless I can find one that works on this machine, though, it's a very elegant doorstop.
Today I was in Word and TextEdit (for some reason all my Word documents open up as TextEdit in this computer, but no biggee) and copying and pasting something, when Word just disappeared (as did the Classic environment). Went to restart Classic, and every time I did, it brought up something I haven't seen in years: the "Mac bomb." Turning off extensions made no difference.
Several hours' worth of phone calls with Apple Care reps of varying ability later, all that could be done was a clean reinstall of OS 9. The one that came with this computer (iMac) is 9.0. FInally, done. Then you have to upgrade to 9.1 to get to the point where it will integrate with OS X in all your applications.
Except that 9.1 lives only on the Apple download site. And I can't get it to install successfully. First it wouldn't mount on the desktop. Then I got a complete download for 9.1, but in 9.0 it just says the file is corrupted and won't work.
So unless I can get up to 9.1 (and thence to 9.2.2.), this computer can't use Word, unless I buy Word for OS X, which I don't feel like doing. The result will probably be work having me buy a dock for their laptop and a keyboard and monitor, and me being bound to a Windows machine.
I'm really annoyed, though. There's no reason for a four-year-old machine to be obsolete already, especially one that basically does everything right. I'd bet that the problem is that they don't keep up the 9.1 file on the download site and that there's something wrong with it. Unless I can find one that works on this machine, though, it's a very elegant doorstop.
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Date: 2004-08-20 02:25 am (UTC)Classic should work for you. I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe I can find my OS 9 disks that I got when I bought OS X off the shelf. Since Tapuz and I are arranging to sell you the sukkah, we can throw it in when we figure out the sukkah stuff. :)
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Date: 2004-08-20 02:33 am (UTC)