Hi There, I have an iMac, G3 350MHz, slot-loading, with O.S. 9.1 and O.S.X also. (Drive NOT partitioned) The problem is that I would like to safely remove O.S.X without harming the remainder of the O.S. [including those invisible files, etc] Please email me by return, or post here if you have any sugestions on how to do this. Kieran

Find your OS 9 System Folder and any OS 9 applications that you use and move them somewhere safe. Throw everything else on the root level of the hard drive in the Trash and then put the System Folder and other stuff back where it came from. Reboot. Verify functionality of everything you can think of. When you're done, empty the Trash. p

If you've installed Mac OS X over Mac OS 9.1 on a drive and want to remove the Mac OS X items from the drive: - reboot into Mac OS 9.1 - paste this script into a new Applescript window in the script editor and save it as a classic applet. quit script editor. - run this script All Mac OS X items will be placed in the trash. BEFORE YOU EMPTY THE TRASH, MAKE SURE THAT IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ITEMS YOU WANT TO KEEP! property root_items : {"bin", "dev", "Network", "private", ¬ "sbin", "usr", "Volumes", ".DS_Store", ".hidden", "cores", ¬ "etc", "tmp", "var", "Applications", "Developer", ¬ "Library", "mach", "mach.sym", "mach_kernel", "System", ¬ ".Trashes", "Users", ".vol"} property systemfolder_items : {"Classic", "Classic Support", ¬ "Classic Support UI", "ProxyApp"} tell application "Finder" activate try set this_version to the version as string if this_version does not start with "9" or ¬ this_version is not greater than or equal to "9.1" then ¬ error "This script requires a Mac OS 9.x system greater than 9.0.4." display dialog "This script will move Mac OS X items from the startup disk to the trash." with icon 2 display dialog "Should this script delete the Users folder?" buttons {"Cancel", "Yes", "No"} default button 3 set the users_flag to the button returned of the result repeat with i from 1 to the count of the root_items set this_item to item i of the root_items if this_item is not "Users" or ¬ the users_flag is "Yes" then if exists (item this_item of the startup disk) then delete item this_item of the startup disk end if end if end repeat repeat with i from 1 to the count of the systemfolder_items set this_item to item i of the systemfolder_items if exists (item this_item of the system folder) then delete item this_item of the system folder end if end repeat beep display dialog "The Mac OS X items have been placed in the Trash." on error error_message number error_number if the error_number is not -128 then beep display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 end if end try end tell

bob, i pasted your script text into a new 'script editor' blank, and got syntax errors. would not work any way i tried it. could you e-mail me the executable script?

Bob, I would be grateful if you could mail me the script also. I have in fact installed Mac O.S. X over 9.1 on a non-partitioned drive. Thanks, Kieran

Are there any applescript savvy people out there who can verify if this pasted script of BOB's actually works? I tried to fumble my way thru it in script editor via cut-n-paste, to no avail. And Bob's no help as he seems to think he never had an executable applescript file...Only the TEXT and it seemd to work in and of itself somehow for him (sorry Bob. i am calling you to task on your very promising post and so far....... No offense.)