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Re: repairing alias in MM

BINGO!!! That worked just fine.. Thanks for all of your help......



> From: Richard Fish <email@hidden>
> Organization: Minneapolis Public Schools
> Reply-To: email@hidden
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:34:42 -0800
> To: 'Robert Barr' <email@hidden>, 'mm listserv'
> <email@hidden>
> Subject: RE: repairing alias in MM
>
> Lots of good info posted about how to prevent this from happening, but the
> answer to your question about how to get a new Chooser alias for this user
> wasn't answered.
> I used to have a lot of problem with this before I ran ChangeCreate on
> several labs that I manage. The Chooser that appears in Apple Menu Items is
> just an alias. In my experience I just deleted the one that was messed up
> from the user's Apple Menu Items folder on the server and the next time that
> user logged in the log in process recreated the Chooser alias. I tried
> putting an actual Chooser file in the Apple Menu Items, but as I recall this
> caused OS 9 to freeze.
> From my experience not all corruption of preferences and the like in MM are
> caused by the creation date issue. When I ran ChangeCreate in the labs I
> was having trouble with, the corrupt Chooser alias issue almost went away.
> However, I still see it happening once and a while.
> In my opinion, I don't think MM for OS 9 reached its maturity before Apple
> switched to OS X and Workgroup Manager. Since I work in a large
> metropolitan school district, it will be a while before we can make a major
> shift to OS X and Workgroup Manager ($$$).
>
> Richard Fish
> Minneapolis Public Schools
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