Dave, I mistakenly said at one point "Aliases of things on the start up should work fine in this context." - in spite of saying correctly elsewhere that an alias of an OS is not good enough for boot up from cold. David Klaus made some important observations on the business of having apps on the Start up disk (or volume considering the SU disk can be virtual)
Best to keep it simple. Mac OSs have terrific file systems, use the folder system to keep your tunes in one place, your docs in another and so on. For very special reasons, yes, have partitions but maybe adopt a simple rule that no reason is good enough if it involves putting a duplicate OS on a partition. In IE 5.1.6 in the Preferences/Web Browser/Advanced you can change the location of your cache. You can put it on a nice clean partition, you can assign a RAM disk and so on. I have tried all these things and honestly, I have mostly given up bothering - not seeing any great results in practice. I have sometimes assigned a partition to the icab cache - the cache works so nicely and is so useful for me to grab things from, I honour it (perhaps unnecessarily) with a portion of my 1G partition. But even here, there seems to be confusion, the cache does turn up in nice files where you want, but also elsewhere where icab wants! Photoshop has easily found and explicit ways of assigning scratch areas. Fireworks too. Can understand how tempting partitioning must be to you given the huge disk you have. I think do what David Klaus says: put all you apps on one partition with the OS, it is always the Start Up. Perhaps that is one partition, leave plenty of space for a few more apps in the next year or two. Have a scratch partition of a gig or two - easily cleared, defragged, accessed, and the rest just one big thing with folders to keep your docs, films, tunes, whatever. Any more is dangerous and would unnecessarily raise your blood pressure. david_elmo -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
