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- From: lau@aerospace.aero.org (David Lau)
- Subject: Before Dark incompatible w/ Duo(7.1)
- Message-ID: <lau-141292122416@michigan.aero.org>
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- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:30:13 GMT
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- Here is a message for those of you who have the new Duo's. (I am not
- sure if this applies to other Mac's running system 7.1).
- DO NOT install Before Dark on your machine. For those who don't know,
- Before Dark is a nifty shareware program that replaces the standard desktop
- pattern with a variety of neat looking patterns.
- Here is the problem. Somehow Before Dark modifies the system (I am not a
- programmer) so that when you are forced to do a hard shutdown during a
- system freeze the hard drive will not longer boot. In fact, booting off
- the Disk Tools floppy responds with the message "This Disk is damaged, do
- you want to Initialize". I ran MacTools 2.0 on it and it said that the
- Volume Information Block was damaged. Fortunately it can repair it but you
- first have to somehow run MacTools DiskFix from another Hard drive.
- Putting it on a minimal 7.1 floppy will not fit. I am not sure what other
- desktop modifying programs do.
- Hopefully this will save someone from having many headaches.
-
- David Lau
- lau@aerospace.aero.org
-