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[goodcow]

Okay, so yesterday I helped a friend install Verizon DSL in their house and on their Mac (G5), and their two Powerbooks...

They had been using 56K this whole time, so there were a ton of downloads from System Update they had never bothered to get. Finally with broadband, I snagged them all, including the update to 10.3.9. (I don't recall which point release he had prior)

Now, Outlook Express (OS9) doesn't seem to work anymore according to him. Classic starts, and then Outlook just freezes. Now I'm aware Outlook Express for OS9 is horribly old and obsolete, and don't ask me why he was using it in the first place, but he says he needs it working again, or at least to get his contacts and some E-Mails saved before upgrading to something else for OSX.

So... can we assume the upgrade to 10.3.9 broke it? Can you roll back point releases like Windows?

I'm not there right now to look at it, and I suppose I can try just setting the startup disk to OS9 natively, but would there be a way to get it working through OSX again?

 

[fse]

Try going into Disk Utility and repair permissions. Usually it's a good idea to do it after updates.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Is his version of OS 9 completely up to date? Perhaps there are some software updates for it that need to be run as well.

Otherwise, find the Outlook preference files and move them into OS X and start using a newer version of Outlook. In OS 9 they are probably in the System Folder, Preferences Folder, and finally the Microsoft Folder.

 

[goodcow]

Is his version of OS 9 completely up to date? Perhaps there are some software updates for it that need to be run as well.

Otherwise, find the Outlook preference files and move them into OS X and start using a newer version of Outlook. In OS 9 they are probably in the System Folder, Preferences Folder, and finally the Microsoft Folder.

Well Outlook used to work fine in OSX via Classic, but stopped after the 300+ megs of system updates yesterday. Including 10.3.9.

 

[ckohler]

Try going into OSX's Mail and choose "FILE -> INPORT MAILBOXS..." and choose to import his old Outlook Express data, bypassing Outlook Express all together. If that doesn't work, you could try deleting Outlook Express's Preferences file from the Classic Preferences folder. It shouldn't delete is account data.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Well Outlook used to work fine in OSX via Classic, but stopped after the 300+ megs of system updates yesterday. Including 10.3.9.

I understood that. But OS X and OS 9 have to work together for Classic mode to function and OS X will, from time to time, update the OS 9 system. It was just a suggestion to make sure that everything was in place in 9.

 

[goodcow]

I understood that. But OS X and OS 9 have to work together for Classic mode to function and OS X will, from time to time, update the OS 9 system. It was just a suggestion to make sure that everything was in place in 9.

Oh, I didn't know OSX updates OS9. I assumed OS9 was dead and abanonded, and OSX never touched it, including preferences.