This article discusses how to "rebless" a System Folder that has been disabled.

In the course of troubleshooting your system software, many times you will perform a clean install of the system software. After doing this, you may find that a clean install of the system software did not help.

If this is the case, you may want to go back to running from your previous System Folder rather than moving all of your non--Apple software and other items from that previous System Folder into the clean System Folder you just created.

To reactivate your original System Folder follow the steps in the section titled Reblessing Your Original System Folder.

If the steps listed below do not work, you should use the system folder that was created during the clean install process, or perform another clean install of the system software.

If you are troubleshooting SCSI issues, make sure you have resolved those issues before proceeding. If you are not sure, do not follow these steps:

Reblessing Your Original System Folder:

Step 1

Start the computer from an external floppy disk or a startup CD-ROM disc.

Step 2

Close all windows on your screen, then open your hard disk.

Step 3

Verify that the System Folder has a small picture of an original Macintosh in the middle of its icon. This will resemble a picture of a monitor. This is the active or blessed System Folder on your computer.

Step 4

Open this System Folder. Move the System suitcase into the Preferences folder. Close the System Folder.

Step 5

Verify that this System Folder no longer has the original Macintosh icon.

Step 6

Rename the System Folder "Clean System Folder".

Step 7

Rename the original System Folder (the one you wish to use again, not the one from Step 6) back to "System Folder".

1. If you used System 7.5's "Clean Install" option, open the System Folder, double-click on your System suitcase. Close the window which appears, then close the System Folder.
   1. If a picture of an original Macintosh does not appear in the middle of this folder's icon, open the System Folder again.
   2. Drag the System suitcase and the Finder to your hard disk icon.
   3. Close the System Folder.
   4. Open your hard drive and drag the System suitcase and the Finder on top of the System Folder icon. The original Macintosh icon should appear on the System folder immediately.

2. If you used another type of clean install (or restore), you ordinarily would have had to separate the System suitcase and the Finder from each other. One of these files would have been placed in the Trash, or in your Preferences folder, or someplace other than loose in the System Folder.

   You need to find the System suitcase and the Finder, move them to your harddisk, close your System Folder, and drag them on top of your System Folder icon. The original Macintosh icon should appear on the System Folder icon immediately.

Step 8

Restart your computer. It should start up from the original System Folder. If it does not, repeat the original clean install steps.

Step 9

Put "Clean System Folder" into the Trash, then empty the Trash. You will lose all data in this System Folder, so make sure that additional software you installed into this System Folder is in your active System Folder.

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