Thanks to Tom Bridgeland and Al Poulin for responding to my question. Besides browsing through Jaguar to get familiar with it, I have not really used it at all. I usually can't afford to spend that kind of money on software and then not do anything with it. Probably the main reason why I'm not using it yet is because I have not understood whether it's easy or hard to flip back and forth between a document that runs better (or only) on 9.2.2 and another one that runs best in X/Jag/Panther. For example, I want to transition from PageMaker 5 to InDesign 2. PageMaker 5 might not run in X/Jag/Panther. InDesign 2 does, per the box. Since it does, and since I'm trying to be progressive, I should run it on X. But there are months of work created on PageMaker 5 in 9.2.2 that I will be referring back to for months to come. Another example is e-mail. Tons of e-mails are saved in tons of folders on IE -- do I have to keep hopping back and forth between IE in 9.2.2 and something else in X to continue correspondence threads that are not yet wrapped up? For example, a convention I headed in June 2002 & June 2003 will repeat again in June 2004. I still refer back, very occasionally, to some e-mails from previous years there. It was so convenient to tuck these e-mails in their own little folder rather than save them somewhere else. In that case, is it easier to move these to IE in Classic, then hop back and forth between Classic and X? I really do want to dive into the Panther world, but I still have so-o-o-o many tethers to the 9.2.2 world. I even start up my Centris from time to time to find a document in System 7, because the disk I saved that file to is formatted "the old way" or on an "old disk" and my iMac's external floppy drive can't open it. (Sometimes we wonder why the previous generation maintains its old routines, and then one day we find that we've become the previous generation and our old routines work just fine!)
I guess I could have 9.2.2, Classic, AND Panther. Then I could move things to Classic a little at a time without deleting them from 9.2.2 and see if they work. However, to help encourage myself to step deeper into the Panther waters, it seems like I should load it on my iMac and leave 9.2.2 on the external HD. To me, at this point, switching to Panther is about as daunting as switching to Linux or PeeCees (which I know nothing about). It feels like completely leaving everything behind and starting over. It's not that I emotionally don't want to leave 9.2.2 - it just seems like so much work to switch. I'm thinking that this is the same situation that a lot of other people are finding themselves in at this point. If you can figure out what my questions were in all of this, I would love to hear some feedback. Thanks in advance, Claire -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
