Ray_Net wrote:
Ray Davison wrote on 27/09/2016 21:45:
Ray_Net wrote:
What ? For me, your text is understandable ....
Is there a typo in your question?
No, I just say that I am not able to understand your text:
But your question says "your text is understandable ....". Note it says
IS, not IS NOT.
Here is the philosophy. Computer storage is like a paper document
storage room. The file cabinets are like hard drives. The cabinets
have drawers (partitions). The drawers have folders (sub-directories).
The folders have files.
In an organizational environment, computers are treated like home
appliances; plug it in, use the controls provided, and don't mess with
it. Coming to this list implies a willingness to "peak under the
covers". And since the computer is yours to do with as you please, to a
great extent you get to decide where files are stored.
The computer can have as many hard drives, OSs, apps and data as it has
room for. My desktops typically have five OSs, and laptops at least two.
There is normally one OS per partition, and it is fully contained in
that partition. however, I have had multiple OSs on a single partition,
and put parts of an OS on other partitions.
Apps tend to come with install routines that assume there is only one
partition, that it is the OS partition, and it is "C" drive. But you
have the choice of putting apps and data on any partition that the OS
can access.
The only apps I allow on an OS partition are utilities that I consider
extensions of the OS, such as a file manager. I have apps on an apps
partition and data on a data partition. And I consider the entire SM
profile to be data. And I have moved the mail files out of the profile
tree to a separate mail tree.
And I have multiple OSs and apps sharing the same profile files. OSs
and apps have come and gone, but my data has stayed.
I have been doing the above since Netscape, which is where my current
mail files were created, and have never "lost" mail.
Ray
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