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Re: Chooser launches Picture Viewer?!?

It has been written:

NOW, I told you how to fix it, I want to know how to make it NO HAPPEN
ANYMORE.

Hi all,

Here's one way to fix it. Re-format your HD's. Another way is to use
an obscure utility called "ChangeCreate".

Here's an explanation: There is a known issue involving HD creation

dates and MM. Here's what happens. Jimmy logs in on imac #1 and
everything
works fine. Jimmy logs out and goes to logs in to imac # 2 (which was
either
bought in the same batch from Apple as imac # 1 OR has been cloned using

Apple's Software Restore) and which has the same HD creation date as
imac #1
The result is that aliases don't point to the right things. Why? Well,
when
Apple wrote MM, they decided the HD creation date would be a good unique

identifier as to which computer was being logged in to. The idea being
that if

MM recognized the computer being logged in to as the one that was most
recently

logged in to previously (via the HD creation date) then it doesn't
bother to
re-create any aliases in order to speed up the login a bit. Well, if
two
different computers have the same HD creation dates, then MM thinks they
are
the same computer and doesn't bother to recreate the aliases, which is
why
after logging in you can fix them manually. This is a problem with the
OS's
alias manager. The reason it happens for some of your users
and not others is *that's* the nature of the problem. I suspect that
the other users
in the same workgroup
for which it doesn't happen always sit at the same computer. Of course,
I've
been wrong before. But, I'd check the HD creation dates and if they are
the
same. If you re-clone using Apple's Software Restore, first initialize
using Drive Setup and then choose to restore in
place rather than erase and restore.

Or, I can send you the utility if you want it.

Peace,
Jimmy
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