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Question about ScreenSaver!

Hi experts~

I'm kinda new to Mac, so my question would appear to be silly to u guys~ so please bear with me! thx

I've recently downloaded a screen saver and has no clue which folder i should place it in, in order to be selected from the screen effects under system preferences.

Thank you~

R6

weed

They go in Home/Library/Screen Savers.

ASKER

Hi weed,

first thing first~ i'd like to thank you for replying my question!

i've placed the screen saver file into the location u specified. But still can't choose it from the Screen Effects.

Thank you so much

R6

weed

Perhaps it's not a screensaver for OS X. Or perhaps you havent unstuffed/decompressed it first. It may also have a different name that appears in the screen effects window.

ASKER

Hi weed,

The file extention of the screensaver is .sea and i've double checked that i've downloaded the one for OS X. So, should i decompress it or something??

Thank you

steven

weed

Yes. .sea stands for Self Extracting Archive. Double click it to decompress it. The resulting file, probably placed on your desktop, will be what needs to go in your screensaver folder.

ASKER

Hi weed,

i've unstuffed the .sea file and the resulting file is a folder that contains 3 files, 1 classic application, 1 .mov and a read me (in German). And i've placed this folder into the screen saver folder but can't see it on Screen Effects tab, so i put those 3 files individully into the screensaver folder and still fail to do so...how come? please teach me!

thank u

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ASKER

Yeah, it should be a screen saver for OS 9 cauz when i execute the resulting classic application, it resembles a screen saver program. Anyway, just wanna thank u for ur help~ and i've learnt lots of thing out of it!

thank u so much weed~