cancel classic startup = classic starts up anyway

[meancode]

hey all,

this sounds normal right? an image tryes to open in os 9 picture viewer and not preview app of os x. so i click stop classic, then confirm that i actually want to quit classic (i hate that stupid dialoge) and so the classic window goes away. well i hear my system chugging away and all i got open is itunes, and aim. after a little time the PANTONE startup app starts (in os 9 startup items) and sure enough classic is a running. even though i told it to stop. why the heck does it do this? im about ready to trash classic os 9 its bein a pain in the ass about this "not starting up" crap.

my setup is this: TiBook 500/512 RAM. OS X HD (OS 10.1.3/OS 9.2.2) and OS 9 HD (OS 9.1) i have it set for classic to start the OS 9.2.2 sys from this drive. anyone seen similar behavior?

i check and it is running Classic Support, and if i launch an OS 9 app it fires up. is there any way to eliviate this problem, or is this a bug fix that apple will have to deal with in a future dot release? thanks for your insight.

[mervTormel]

select that bothersome image, Show Info, and select ( open with application ) and select an OSX app and hit ( change all )

as for the "stop classic, it starts anyway," hmm, odd. never seen that. i suggest beer.

[hschickel]

I've found you can eliminate Classic startups entirely by removing write permissions from the Classic System Folder.

chmod a-w /System\ Folder or sudo chmod uo-w /System\ Folder if you've chown'd the System Folder to root.

*If your System Folder is not located at /System\ Folder please substitute your path.

Hugh

ps - Beer also works.

[meancode]

he he, thanks. i decided to go with the beer to start with. i have made myself a similar script to chmod the Classic Startup app, and made an AS out of it. so that does take care of that. thanks.