CompuServe Messages

I'm not sure why you removed the system and finder files from your system folder and renamed it; I've never seen that bit of advice mentioned. You should have simply run the installer without doing anything to your existing system. Here's what happened ——————-The Mac keeps track of where the system and Finder are. It "knew" when you removed them from the system folder. There's nothing sacred about the system folder; it's whatever directory the system and finder files happen to be in. I assume you simply dragged them _out_ of the system folder into what we call the "root" directory. That didn't hurt anything, really, but from that moment on the Mac considered your root directory to be the "system folder." When you ran the Installer, it checked to see where the current system was, decided that was the root directory, and put everything there. Here's how to fix it ——————-Drag everything back into your original system folder. Since the Mac keeps track of these things, this folder will suddenly sport the little Mac icon that identifies it as the system folder.