On Jan 9, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Don wrote:
By the way, the first time you run Classic in Panther, it will ask you for permission to "update" some files for compatibility reasons. You WANT to do this, it does not CHANGE anything.
_Chas_
Actually, Chas is confused again. It can certainly change and/or overwrite the Extensions set which could affect performance when you do boot into OS9 natively. I have experienced problems in OS9 precisely from this and my solution is to never run Classic mode. I found out the hard way by having Cyberdog (more specifically OpenDoc) crippled by trying to run it under Classic and causing me hours of troubleshooting to fix it where one of the Extension overwritten by the update broke certain functionalities of Cyberdog.
This is an offshoot thread from the previous discussion.
I have a machine running 9.2 on one hard drive, and a 'test' hard drive that has 10.? on it. All I want to use the 10.? for right now is experimenting with getting used to the newer methods before actually committing to it.
Therefore I occasionally start up on the "10 drive" to play and get used to it. I'm reluctant to allow 10.? to tamper in any way with any changes to my "master" 9.2 system (temporarily reduced to passive) drive while it is no longer 'in charge'.
Is there ANY risk that ANYTHING might be bollixed up by allowing the sytem 10 hard drive to make changes that it wants to make to the system 9 drive? So far I've refused to allow X to change anything on the other system until I get this question answered for sure.
Thanks Don
That's the safe way to do it as well as being the way I do it. If and when I want to run 9 apps, I *never* run it from within X, but reboot into 9. As long as you do that, OSX will never mung your OS9 System Folder files
~Catharine
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