Re: [NTLK] Trashing prefs.

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On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 10:35 PM, Glen Warner wrote:
<sniP>
> was happily recommending
> to his customer that she put all of her Preferences in the trash!
>
> If you're not Mac-savvy, this would put the customer in a no boot
> situation.
>

Actually not true...

You can throw away your entire preferences folder in classic MacOS (ie
1 through 9.22) and the mac will still boot right up and create a new
preferences folder and go about it's merry way writing out new
preferences files.

Newton,
Marty

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