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Re: is there a reason not to change "Applications (Mac OS 9)"
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Re: is there a reason not to change "Applications (Mac OS 9)"


  • Subject: Re: is there a reason not to change "Applications (Mac OS 9)"
  • From: Harald E Brandt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:23:17 +0200

+--> Paul Berkowitz wrote 01-06-12:
>There's usually be a good reason for something like that. The reason here, I
>think, is that if/when you move to OS X, especially if it's on the same disk
>partition as OS 9.1 you'll probably totally screw up your whole system by
>having done that.
+- .... and others wrote similar scary stuff...

Your are scaring the hell out of me!
What shall I do with the zillions of apps I already have, which are not even on the same partition as the OS 9.1 I have!? They are all on a partition I have called "Apps". And what about all aliases, scripts and much else!? When I move to OS X, will I have to repartition my disk and move all my zillions of applications and cram them down into the single folder "Applications (Mac OS 9)", then tediously separating out current carbonized apps into a separate Applications folder!!!? Help!!!
Will I no longer be able to group apps into types such as Draw tools, Sound, Computing etc, but rather separate carbonized editors from non-carbonized!? I thought I had a good organization by keeping the OS on a separate partition from the Apps!?
So will OS X in practice make me repartion and restructure all sorting of my apps that I thought was logical? It would take weeks of building up a descent environment again!....
And what about all my docs I have on a separate partition "Docs"? Do I have to live with the OS X forcing me to store lots of documents on the startup volume in that dreadful folder "Documents" that always is automatically generated by e.g AppleWorks, despite I always delete it? What's wrong with my nice Docs partition that I always backup?

If that is the consequence of moving to OS X, I don't know when I would find the time to ever do the change I previously had waited so long for!! I already know Unix, so earlier I thought the change wouldn't be very traumatic for me, but this seems like an approaching Catastrophe for me.....

Have you any good suggestions, hints, practical recommendations etc?
Is partitioning now considered bad?

______heb________________________________________________________________
Harald E Brandt email@hidden PGP/MIME aware http://heb.bragit.com


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