What's the best OS for an older (compact) Mac --WAS: Slow Boot Up with Apple Macintosh SE/30

[Liliana Pubill]

OS 7.1 huh (?)..... do you think my older Macs will run better in 7.1?  
I mean honestly 7.5 in my opinion its pretty bad (unless you go up to 
7.5.5 and still I remember I didn't see much improvement AT ALL in my 
IIci I used to own 10 years ago,after everyone I knew kept recommending 
it) and I must admit, every OS I tested from that point on keep going 
downhill IMHO until OS 9.2 came up (9 was pretty buggy and don't get me 
started with 8, sometimes I couldn't even scroll on finder windows who 
knows why)  I have 7.5 in all my older macs because I own the Mac 
Advocate CD 2 that brought it, but does anyone in this list recommend 
any specific version of OS that wont crash as often as 7.5 and its more 
reliable?

ITOH I found that ".DS_Store" files from OS X are killers to older OSs 
than the 9.2, I formatted my IIcis drive in my G3 with OS X and as I 
brought it to my IIci it wouldn't last long at all as soon as I 
launched applications it would crash badly, thats after I had formatted 
the drive and freshly installed everything from scratch in my G3.  I 
ran Norton Utilities 3.1 (I think that's the one in there) and errors 
kept coming up.  EVERYTHING was fixed (Norton's concluded).  Restart, 
more freezes new errors kept developing, until I paid VERY close 
attention to that message that says "you have files that start with a 
dot, Apple recommends against this",  I had previously chosen to bypass 
that, and boy I wish I had repaired it sooner, as soon as I did, the 
freezes were gone, so heed my warning ".DS_Store" files and such that 
begin with a period (and to make matters worse they are invisible) are 
toxic, no, killers, no, horrendous to our old Macs.  Check often and 
delete then while you still can! LOL I am starting to sound like a 
maniac but the freezes were driving me nuts.  Oh BTW it still freezes 
sometimes, but I guess its just the OS.

OH BTW, if I should downgrade how do I do it to transfer my settings 
and such what's the best way?
Thanks!

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On Sunday, August 15, 2004, at 10:47  AM, Stuart Bell wrote:
ROTFL.  Old Macs running a well-tuned 7.1 are as robust as anything 
7.5 or 8.x or 9.x could offer.

OTOH, I agree that 128Mb is overkill, except for the 'if it can be 
done, I want to do it' factor.

Stuart

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