Mac OS X 10.1.5 or Earlier: Installing Mac OS 9 in Classic May Leave Temporary Items

If Mac OS X File Sharing is turned on when you install Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS 9.2 from within Classic, 200 MB of temporary items used by the Installer may be left behind after the installation has completed. These items do not affect the installation and can be deleted normally.

Symptom

When installing Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS 9.2 from within Classic, some disk image file systems may remain on your Mac OS X desktop. When this occurs, several Installer Temp folders may also be left in the folder called "System Folder" on the volume where you installed Mac OS 9.


Note: This does not affect Mac OS X 10.2 or later, because File Sharing in Classic is no longer supported.

Solution

These symptoms will not occur if you turn off Mac OS X File Sharing in the Sharing pane of System Preferences before installing Mac OS 9.

If these items are left after installation, follow these steps:

Published Date: Feb 17, 2012