On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: >>> Backup. Backup. Backup. >>> >>> I keep my OS on its own hard drive: All my apps *and* data are on >>> another physical drive. And I have an image of the OS drive (updated >>> weekly) available at all times. If any update to the OS causes >>> problems, or even if the drive experiences a catastrophic failure, I >>> can set everything right in 5 minutes (or 5 minutes after replacing >>> the HD in the "catastrophic failure" scenario!) >> >>It's not sensible to divide up the OS and some application installs, >>like Photoshop, which install bits in various locations throughout the >>OS libraries for color management, etc. > > It works just fine in practice.
... perhaps with a different operating system than I use, Mark. I don't run Windows. I like the integration of how things work with my configuration of Mac OS X. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
