Appearance for MU

here's the workaround...

Login as the Owner and remove these three files:
(Save themÉ do not throw them away you will need them later!)

[Multi-User Startup] Extension version 1.3 or 1.3.1 from the
extensions folder
[Login] version 1.3 or 1.3.1 from the system folder
[Panels] version 1.3 or 1.3.1 from the system folder

Replace them with the version 1.1 files of the same name.

I found the files here: http://members.nbci.com/robo_x/MU1.1.sit

and here: http://hem.passagen.se/robo/MU1.1.sit

Now Restart your system. Once restarted login as each user and set their
appearance preferences. Now as the Owner remove the three version 1.1 files
and save them (you will need them later if you wish to alter the UserÕs
appearance preferences again in the future). Now replace them with the
version 1.3 or 1.3.1 files and Restart. Hopefully you will find as I have
that each userÕs desktop picture has been saved according to the way it was
set. The down side is that you still cannot change any of the UserÕs
appearance preferences without following these steps again.

Try going to www.macthemes.org and download a few cool looking themes. After putting them in your system folder under Appearances/Theme files, try changing to one of the newly downloaded themes in another MU desktop. DO this in 9.0, not 9.0.2, .3, .4, or even .1. Make sure your virtual ram is only one meg above the actual ram and reboot. This may not work for most of course, but MU has ALWAYS worked for me for ALL of the OS versions EXCEPT 9.1. Good luck.

Damon,

Does Apple have an official patch for this problem ? If so can you please publish it and add it to kbase. I'd prefer to have Apple QA the patch rather than following the thread and end up installing OS 9.1 then some downgraded version of either MU or the Appearance control panel, and then having to back the whole lot out because the patch doesn't work on tuesdays 😉

This issue seems to have steamed a few people.

Thanks for any info. Regards, Scott

Does this script solution help anyone?

http://www.macfixit.com/ultimate/Forum14/HTML/006324.html

-Evan

Unfortunately, there is no update or patch available currently. When one is available, I will post information here.



Damon

Apple Support Discussions

Just wanted to say thank you. You're solution works!! Even though it's a temporary fix until Apple does something, I can now set and SAVE the apperance settings for any user. You're a fine member of the mac community.

Might this (script) solution be of use to anyone ?

http://www.macfixit.com/ultimate/Forum14/HTML/006324.html

Evan

Thanks, your suggestion worked very well, it even lets you save entire themes. So you can have different appareance schemes and desktop picts for each user.