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<blockquote data-quote="Stretch" data-source="post: 1405329" data-attributes="member: 25432"><p>Van, you should sticky this!</p><p></p><p>I have a few things to add about themeing OS X for those of you that are interested in doing it.</p><p></p><p>Since 10.5 there had been no easy way to theme. When you install a theme on 10.5 or newer, you are overwriting system files with the new image files. Since there have been plenty of changes between 10.x versions, heck, even between 10.x.x there have been some changes, if the theme isn't for the EXACT OS version you are running you run a very high change of destroying your system installation.</p><p></p><p>When you install a theme, it goes and searches for files and overwrites them. If they aren't there, it will install them anyways. And especially if the file it is replacing does something else now, it will replace that too. So as you can see, it is pretty easy to screw up your OS with themes.</p><p></p><p>If you do want to try them, make sure you have a fresh back up of your computer. Not a Time Machine backup, but a bootable clone of the hard drive. That way if your computer does get hosed you can easily revert to the backup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stretch, post: 1405329, member: 25432"] Van, you should sticky this! I have a few things to add about themeing OS X for those of you that are interested in doing it. Since 10.5 there had been no easy way to theme. When you install a theme on 10.5 or newer, you are overwriting system files with the new image files. Since there have been plenty of changes between 10.x versions, heck, even between 10.x.x there have been some changes, if the theme isn't for the EXACT OS version you are running you run a very high change of destroying your system installation. When you install a theme, it goes and searches for files and overwrites them. If they aren't there, it will install them anyways. And especially if the file it is replacing does something else now, it will replace that too. So as you can see, it is pretty easy to screw up your OS with themes. If you do want to try them, make sure you have a fresh back up of your computer. Not a Time Machine backup, but a bootable clone of the hard drive. That way if your computer does get hosed you can easily revert to the backup. [/QUOTE]
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