Here’s two

-1) Netscape follies:
For a long time, ever since we got the RoadRunner cable Internet, my e-mail was Netscape 4.73; e-mail downloaded directly from the PoP-server (the great e-mail server in the sky).
Before that it was America-Online, except they were dial-up, and had a tiny megabyte limit on attachments, which made it nearly impossible to attach picture-files.
At that time I was driving OS 9.2, and it crashed occasionally (an app lockup would crash the whole ‘pyooter).
Pulling the plug meant a pretty good chance of dislocating a Java-script (“java40.jar”) that updated my “sent” folder.
Somehow we figured out putting the java40.jar back where it belonged got Netscape’s e-mail back up to snuff.
My current e-mail is MyWay; like Yahoo an Internet e-mail.
E-mail isn’t in your ‘pyooter; it’s at MyWay’s Internet site like Yahoo. You can easily fiddle it from any ‘pyooter (you could fiddle RoadRunner e-mail too from their site, but it was a mess — jumping through all kinds of hoops — you’re fiddling the PoP-server).
So I constructed a ne’er-do-well list in MyWay, and it included seven Messenger employees.
For years that worked like a charm, but then someone at the mighty Mezz decided a wall should be erected to keep Messenger employees from surfing the Internet.
Those Messenger employees could no longer respond.
But they could respond directly to the great e-mail server in the sky, and that didn’t bounce.
So I decided I needed to go back to Netscape and make a ne’er-do-well list of just those seven Messenger employees.
By now my Netscape was 7.2, a recent download. (I had installed 7.0 under 9.2, but it failed to grab my address-list, and couldn’t understand smart-quotes and em-dashes. I went back to 4.73.)
7.2 had apparently grabbed my address-list, and I wasn’t noticing bombs on non-QWERTY characters — at least on my end; who knows about the mighty Mezz....... I remember fiddling Word-attachments at the mighty Mezz to remove unfathomable gibberish and thereby make them printable.
But that java40.jar was still dislocated from a long-ago reboot — so my “sent” wasn’t updating.
We searched “java40.jar,” and got four hits, none of which seemed to make any sense. Some were ancient.
I’ve relocated the java40.jar in the filmy past to my 4.73, so hope I can do it again.
After that I’d trash my 7.2, download a new 7.2 (or later; WHATEVER), and hopefully it would grab everything. (The 7.2 apparently updated 4.73 and 7.0; so maybe putting the java40.jar back where it belongs will bring the 7.2 I already have up to snuff.)

-2) Photoshop Elements:
The Photoshop Elements 2.0 that came free with our new scanner is lobbing a hairball.
It wants to automatically update from the Adobe-site — like the automatical updates I have to so many other apps.
But Photoshop Elements stops at the update, because it doesn’t know what to do with it.
At that point I have to force-quit Photoshop Elements, because it’s lost.
Seems to us the Photoshop Elements had a dialog-box scotching automatical updates.
We (I) have two options: -a) reinstall the free Photoshop Elements from the CD, disallowing the automatical updates, or -b) download the newest Photoshop Elements from the Adobe site — it would probably have the update, and perhaps not be free.
Meantime, I’ve had to fall back to my old Photoshop 5.5, a classic app, that fires up 9.2.
But I prefer my Photoshop Elements, since it has a “browse” that displays all the photos on an input as thumbnails. 5.5 didn’t, and I had to browse myself through all the files — a time-consuming pain.
So hopefully I can toss my old Photoshop Elements and reinstall a new one that doesn’t hang.
I’m more inclined to download from the Adobe site — even if it costs money; can’t be that much.
(I’m also beginning to think a Quark update is rather silly — I hardly ever use it any more. I only have the most basic stuff on it; all 4.1, a classic app.
Not working at the mighty Mezz any more makes a Quark-update pointless. 700+ smackaroos — not worth it.)

“We” is my wife Linda and I.

The vaunted “ne’er-do-well list” is all the people I e-mail my stuff to. It’s an e-mail list; whatever is pasted in goes to all the recipients.

The “mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired. Best job I ever had.

RE: “classic app, that fires up 9.2.......” equals classic application; one that won’t fire up in OS-X. OS-X has an earlier 9.2 operating-system buried inside that fires up to open “classic apps.”