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- September 27th, 2002, 12:58 AM #1
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Removing the .Mac screen saver in 10.2
Does anybody know how to remove the .Mac screensaver in 10.2?
I can't find it on the HD and I really dislike it in my random list...
Ps does anybody know a better random screen saver - one where you can choose what to randomise with?
TIA,
Adam Q Salter
- September 27th, 2002, 11:58 AM #2
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- September 27th, 2002, 01:02 PM #3
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I just looked in all the screen saver locations and it isn't there. that is very strange. I wonder where it is at?
I just searched all hard drives for anything ending in .saver and came up with nothing about .mac
Are screensaver modules named anything else other than .saver?
- September 27th, 2002, 04:48 PM #4
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Duh! I've been wracking my brain over this for several hours. Then something dawned on me. The name of the saver.
It's in /System/Library/Screen Savers, but…
it's called .Mac.slideSaver. (intentional emphasis on the .Mac part)
It's invisible since the name starts with a dot!!
Just go into the Terminal and cd /System/Library/Screen Savers and do an ls -al. See it now?
So a simple rm -rf /System/Library/"Screen Savers"/.Mac.slideSaver should do the trick for ya.
- September 27th, 2002, 05:22 PM #5
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no wonder I didn't find it .SLIDEsaver
I wish I would have known that before
I knew I wasn't missing it because of it being hidden. I was using snax with hidden files shown.
Nice call about being .mac though!
- September 28th, 2002, 04:13 AM #6
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Unbeleivable!!
Yep that it!...
I too did a full search of the HD... obviously the .filename filename was being ignored...
SOOO how about the second question... ? Is there a better randomise screensaver?
Adam
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