Uninstalling/Reinstalling Mathematica 7?

[AES]

I need to repair, restore, or reinstall the default "Default" stylesheet
in my copy of Mathematica 7.0.1 on a single-user 2008-vintage MacBook
running 10.4.11.

(I apparently screwed it up big time trying to edit it.)

I have the registered and licensed master Single-User CD used for the
current installation, and am thinking the easiest approach might be just
a full uninstall and clean reinstall of the entire v7 app -- but can't
find any clear discussion of how to do this anywhere in the
documentation.

(There's discussion of installing the latest version over *earlier*
versions -- but nothing on uninstalling the current app, or installing
over the same current version already installed.)

Or could I find that stylesheet on the CD itself, and just copy it over?

Thanks for any advice.

[Bill Rowe]

On 1/1/10 at 5:33 AM, sie...@stanford.edu (AES) wrote:

>I need to repair, restore, or reinstall the default "Default"
>stylesheet in my copy of Mathematica 7.0.1 on a single-user
>2008-vintage MacBook running 10.4.11.

<snip>

>Or could I find that stylesheet on the CD itself, and just copy it
>over?

This should be adequate. And you've nothing to lose by trying
this. If you retain a copy of the stylesheet you edited, if the
copy operation doesn't do as you want you can always put things
back the way they are now by copying the version you edited back.

[richard i pelletier]

In article <hhkj1l$4u1$1...@smc.vnet.net>, AES <sie...@stanford.edu>
wrote:

my experience with a related issue suggests that you can indeed simply
put a clean copy of the default stylesheet into the installed package.
(I do something related: I edit menusetup.tr every time i get a new one,
so that cmd-u gets me underlined text.)

on my macbook, i get to those things by using control click on the
mathematica package to get the contextual menu item "show package
contents" � which displays the mathematica package as an ordinary
folder. moving down thru system files ... front end ... stylesheets gets
me to the folder containing, among other things, default.nb . (and i
believe that _is_ what you want to replace.)

I do not have a CD, but if I double-click the dmg file, after it
expands, instead of dragging the mathematica icon to the applications
folder, i can do � i just verified � exactly the same thing to get to
default.nb on the mounted disk image. i stopped short of doing a copy,
but i was in the appropriate subfolder and would be shocked discover
that i could not have actually done the copy.

vale,
rip

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[David Reiss]

Just go to SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets and grab Default.nb and
replace the one you ravaged.

All should be fine.

General rule of course is to not alter the supplied style sheets...
any such changes will be overwritten in any upgrade to mathematica
anyway.

Happy new year,
Dvid