TOPIC
Will At Ease Basic v3 work with Mac OS 9?
DISCUSSION
Mac OS 9 comes with a new facility, called Multiple Users, which is designed to replace At Ease. So, no testing or validation of At Ease under Mac OS 9 was done. The functionality of Multiple Users is much the same as At Ease, with improvements and better integration. At Ease and Multiple Users cannot be used or installed together. If Multiple Users is installed at startup, even if not activated, it removes any older At Ease pieces and places them in the Trash. Apple still offers five Education Series bundles, which are not being revised and still install At Ease Basic by default. If these bundles are to be used with Mac OS 9, the Multiple Users facility should be used in place of At Ease. When installing from one of these bundles, note from the install instructions which CD-ROM is installing At Ease. When installing from this CD-ROM, choose Custom install from the pop-up menu that normally defaults to Easy Install. In the list of items displayed after choosing Custom Install, choose all items except At Ease by clicking all checkboxes for items in the list. Then, complete the install. Instead of configuring At Ease to access the bundle material, configure the corresponding Multiple Users facilities, to acquire the same functionality. If At Ease is installed from the CD-ROM, upon restart the user there are two At Ease files from the System Folder placed in the Trash and not loaded at startup. This action is taken by the Multiple Users facility. The At Ease Setup program is present in a folder at the root level of the volume. If the user tries to run At Ease Setup, a message appears stating that At Ease is not installed properly, please reinstall. Reinstalling results in the same error. |
||||||
| Document Information | |
| Product Area: | Mac OS System Software |
| Category: | Mac OS 9.0 |
| Sub Category: | Networking & Internet |
| Keywords: | |
Copyright © 2000 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.