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computer woes
May. 19th, 2008 11:44 amHusband and six-year-old have been playing Lara Croft games. Tomb Raider 4 did not run well on husband's PowerBook using Classic under Tiger. When I got my G4, I got a dual-boot system. So we tried putting TR4 on the OS 9 partition. Success!
Worked so well, we tried doing the same with Baldur's Gate. But last time we did Baldur's Gate, there was a trick to the installation so you could just run it with one disk in the computer, instead of having to change disks all the time. That wasn't working. Husband decided to uninstall and try again.
Evidently, the Baldur's Gate uninstaller believes in the slash-and-burn approach.
Yes, the Baldur's Gate folder was deleted. So was the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder.
So was the Applications folder.
Nothing else was harmed. He hooked up his laptop to the G4 and copied my Documents and other stuff over to the Time Capsule. (Yes, I wish I had backed up the computer. No question about it. But most people don't back up their applications anyway.) So for now, I'm working on his laptop. Most of what I *need* is covered by Safari and Word, though I do need to get my Virtual PC/SKY Index back. He's working on finding someone who can recover an utterly vanished Applications folder.
Meanwhile, I'm here but not here. I'll probably fire up iChat, but won't be downloading Yahoo Messenger (or Adium, which is what I normally use) to his computer.
And, yes, I told him that after we get this straightened out, I want to get Leopard so I don't have to worry about something like this happening again.
Worked so well, we tried doing the same with Baldur's Gate. But last time we did Baldur's Gate, there was a trick to the installation so you could just run it with one disk in the computer, instead of having to change disks all the time. That wasn't working. Husband decided to uninstall and try again.
Evidently, the Baldur's Gate uninstaller believes in the slash-and-burn approach.
Yes, the Baldur's Gate folder was deleted. So was the Applications (Mac OS 9) folder.
So was the Applications folder.
Nothing else was harmed. He hooked up his laptop to the G4 and copied my Documents and other stuff over to the Time Capsule. (Yes, I wish I had backed up the computer. No question about it. But most people don't back up their applications anyway.) So for now, I'm working on his laptop. Most of what I *need* is covered by Safari and Word, though I do need to get my Virtual PC/SKY Index back. He's working on finding someone who can recover an utterly vanished Applications folder.
Meanwhile, I'm here but not here. I'll probably fire up iChat, but won't be downloading Yahoo Messenger (or Adium, which is what I normally use) to his computer.
And, yes, I told him that after we get this straightened out, I want to get Leopard so I don't have to worry about something like this happening again.
