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Oct 4th, 2004

iCal auto-start

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I need a little help on a simple problem.
I am running OSX 10.3.5
How do I get iCal to automatically load up and display on my screen everytime I switch on my Mac without having to click the dock icon?

Is there a start-up folder like oS 9 somewhere?

Thanks

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Oct 5th, 2004

Re: iCal auto-start

Quote originally posted by Neech ...

I need a little help on a simple problem.
I am running OSX 10.3.5
How do I get iCal to automatically load up and display on my screen everytime I switch on my Mac without having to click the dock icon?

System Preferences -> Accounts -> Choose your account -> click the Startup Items tab -> Click the + -> Navigate to iCal and select it.

You're done.

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Oct 7th, 2004

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Hello,

Yellow is correct. There is another way to do it if you want things to startup for all users. You can find that folder on the System Volume --> Library --> StartupItems

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Oct 8th, 2004

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There is another way to do it if you want things to startup for all users. You can find that folder on the System Volume --> Library --> StartupItems

This isn't really for the faint of heart though. Anything that is placed in /Library/StartupItems/ has to have an associated "StartupParameters.plist" (with pertinant info) and it (AFAIK) cannot be a .app.

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Oct 8th, 2004

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Hello,

I believe my Retrospect Remote is a .app Not sure though. Would have to check. Agree it is not for every thing on the system.

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Oct 11th, 2004

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It's not. It's a shell script.

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# Start Retroclient (pitond) daemon
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#       please make sure this is saved with unix line endings
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. /etc/rc.common

if [ -f "/Library/Preferences/retroclient.state" ] && [ -d "/Applications/Retrospect Client" ]; then
        ConsoleMessage "Starting Retrospect Client"
        /Applications/Retrospect\ Client/Retrospect\ Client.app/Contents/Resources/pitond &
fi

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Oct 13th, 2004

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Thanks for your assistance everyone.

Solved my problem.

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