Dan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Final questions. Should documents and their applications reside onthe same volume or is it OK for them to be in separate volumes?
I prefer my docs on one disk (partition) and the apps with the system. Some apps cramp up if they aren't on the same partition as the System Folder.
Should any particular apps be mentioned for OS X? For OS 9?
I donno 'bout OS X.
But with OS 9... I've had problems with AppleWorks and Photoshop when they weren't living on the boot volume. Basically, their installers foo things. Then the apps themselves had problems finding their own libraries and plug-ins.
Delorme StreetAtlas. It will install on any partition, but then its database Extractor program will corrupt things if "any partition" is not the boot volume.
What about if the docs and the apps are on different drives?
No problemo. In fact, this is a Good Thing. It will improve system performance - apps can fetch data from their own folder tree and system libraries, and from your doc file simultaneously without causing the disk to thrash.
- Dan.
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