Re: Scripting Additions Folder: Help!
Re: Scripting Additions Folder: Help!
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions Folder: Help!
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:26:07 +0100
Phil Dobbin wrote on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:03:07 +0100:
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Sorry to ask such a question but isn't the scripting additions folder
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supposed to live in the Extensions folder?
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AS 1.3.6 OS 8.6
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My Mac has had a nervous breakdown tonight and being new to AS, I'm
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thouroughly confused (new machine).
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Any help, greatly appreciated.
It was moved out of the Extensions folder as from 8.1 or 8.5. With 8.6,
you should have AS 1.3.7 and the Scripting Additions folder should be in
the System Folder. I believe the Additions folder will still be found if
it's in the Extensions folder, but the System Folder's where it's
expected to be. You may find you have one in both locations - one
installed with or by 8.6; the other left over from a previous Mac OS
version on that machine.
If you do have two such folders, you may need to transfer some additions
from the Extensions folder version before scrapping it - but I'd guess
probably not by now. At about the time that the Additions folder was
moved, several of the basic, Apple-supplied additions were incorporated
into one file called "Standard Additions". Most third-party OSAXen
(another word for scripting additions) will have more recent versions by
now. The Apple set on my B-8.6 machine is:
Desktop Printer Manager
FileSharing Commands
Keyboard Addition
Monitor Depth
Network Setup Scripting
Remote Access Commands
Standard Additions
URL Access Scripting
There should also be a "Dialects" folder containing the file "English
Dialect".
NG