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- From: jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy Nixon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: 3.1 upgrade problem
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:05:56 GMT
- Organization: Asbury Park Press
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- Bill Near (wnear@epix.net) wrote:
- >On 9 Mar 1996 05:01:48 GMT, Ian Ferris articulated:
- ><> I just upgraded my Amiga 2000 from OS 2.05 to OS 3.1 and encountered
- ><> the following problem:
- ><>
- ><> The pointer comes up in a messy green/brown color; and the busy pointer
- ><> is a sickly yellow. The Pointer tool "knows" the correct defaults;
- ><> it just doesn't use them automatically. I partially kludged the problem
- ><> away by saving the defaults in a file and putting a line is my user-startup
- ><> file that calls the pointer preferences tool, but this isn't completely
- ><> satisfactory - if I change any other preferences then the pointer goes
- ><> back to "the mess" and I have to reset it manually.
-
- > The fix is a simple one. Go into your
- > SYS:Prefs/Env-Archive/Sys directory and
- > delete the pointer.prefs file. Now go to your pointer editor
- > and resave the settings. All should be well after the next
- > reboot.
-
- In fact, while you're at it, delete all the old OS prefs files. They're
- not compatible with 3.1. You'll have to write down the settings first,
- and reset them manually with the 3.1 prefs programs.
-
- Jeremy
- jeremyn@injersey.com
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