Product

Pandora^® 1.0

Operating system

Mac^® OS 9

Symptoms

If you change the location of the Pandora folder, a new application folder is created for storing temporary files.

Cause

When you upgrade the Mac OS^® to version 9.1, the Applicationsfolder is automatically renamed during the upgrade process. The path to Pandora changes on the upgraded system to: “Macintosh HD/Applications (Mac OS 9)/Pandora 1.0."

This changes the path to Pandora and creates a problem when you print from Pandora. On the upgraded system, every time you print, Pandora recreates the following folder path and uses it to store temporary files:
Macintosh HD/Applications/Pandora 1.0/temp. These folders are empty, but even if you throw them away, Pandora recreates them every time it prints.

Solution

Pandora stores a hard-coded path to the temporary directory in the scenicsoft.properties file in the Pandora directory. You can open this file with a text editor such as BBEdit™ or TextPad^® and change the path name from the old path:
Macintosh HD/Applications/Pandora 1.0/temp
to the new path:
Macintosh HD/Applications (Mac OS 9)/Pandora 1.0/temp

Empty directories no longer appear when you print.

This problem also occurs if you move the Pandora folder to a different directory from where it was initially installed. The same solution outlined above works to solve the problem (just edit the path in the scenicsoft.properties file).

Technical contact(s)

Mike Reed

Date submitted

07 Feb 2003