>One of the most inexpensive options of all is a second hand scsi external >HDfor back up. (You can even get an 18G new later to fit in the case for >about the price of a scsi zip drive). 1 and 2G ones are practically given away. well, they were when I last looked a year or so back! Fast, big, and you have something you can even put a an OS on to not only back up but use as a start up for diagnosis and defragging the main internal...
Can you back up your application programs on a zip or second SCSI?
I'm a windows guy, and in Windows you have small files littered all over the system and windows folder, not to mention the registry. How does that work on the MAC?
Steve
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That's what mystifies Mac users when they look at Windozepain. How do you ever find anything ?
And Mac OS for the most part uses readily identifiable names and suffixes.
Yes Mac OS distributes some files but in usually predictable destinations. A disk manager utility like FileDeamon is more helpful than Sherlock
for searches. Installers may make logs telling you where things where put. But usually the extensions folder and preferences are the first places to look for the most important bits.
And they disk formats work the same on both platforms. given appropriate drivers.
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