Re: [WinMac] Mac OS 8.6
David Bell(db28[at]alphainfo.co.uk)
Mon, 24 May 1999 19:38:18 -0500
Lesley Vita wrote:
>I suggest that before anyone rushes to upgrade, they have a look at a
>thread currently going on TidBits Talk
><http://www.tidbits.com/search/talk.html> called "Files disappearing after
>installing Mac OS 8.6"
>
I suggest that before anyone gets into a panic over this, you check the
facts. Most of the reported instances in Tidbits Talk of files _going
missing_ were system files which had been incorporated into other
components. The so called missing files were therefore redundant and had
been correctly removed by the installer.
The only other reported problem relates to users with non
standard/additional graphics cards when the installer didn't correctly
recognise the cards and upgraded the drivers it found as if they were the
for the standard graphics card. In each reported case the issue was dealt
with by re-installing the drivers supplied with the card in question.
The thread referred to is pretty well dead now. But if anyone is
particularly interested in following it up, the following reference may
help:
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05147>
In my view, while perhaps the 8.6 installer might have handled this a bit
more cleanly, one always needs to take care in such situations, and be
ready to re-install the additional drivers if necessary. (Surely it
should not be necessary to point this sort of thing out on a list that
deals extensively with Windows issues :-)
David Bell
Alpha Information Services Ltd
Glasgow
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