I finally upgraded to OS X
Andit was completely painless. I can't get over how much better and more modern the interface looks. Everything - internet, email, iTunes 4 - works great.
My only problem is that I did a very basic installation, which means I didn't partition my hard drive. So I've got OS 9 folders and applications all over the place. What is the best way for me to handle these? Should I just gather them all up in a couple of folders and name them conspicuously?
I can envision never needing Classic again. All I really do is Office stuff (I've got Office X), internet and email. But for now, I'd like to keep OS 9 intact and available should I need it.
My only problem is that I did a very basic installation, which means I didn't partition my hard drive. So I've got OS 9 folders and applications all over the place. What is the best way for me to handle these? Should I just gather them all up in a couple of folders and name them conspicuously?
I can envision never needing Classic again. All I really do is Office stuff (I've got Office X), internet and email. But for now, I'd like to keep OS 9 intact and available should I need it.
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You can reorganize your OS 9 files/ apps. Just make sure you don't rename the OS 9 System Folder (or the OS X System folder either.)
You will probably find as I have that you don't need any OS 9 or Classic things on your computer. I haven't been there for almost 2 years. Doesn't really take up that much space though it may come in handy for troubleshooting so I would probably leave it be.
I'm on one partition and have had no problems. This goes back to the early OS X days.
Hope you enjoy X.
Welcome to the party
In theory, all your OS 9 applications should already be in the Applications (OS 9) folder (the whole reason that was put into 9 was to make the transition easier), and it's a handy place to leave them.
Everything else, just throw it into your Home folder: in the Unix way of thinking, you shouldn't really keep personal stuff in the root of the hard drive, but for most OS X users who have the box to themselves, it doesn't really make any difference.
"Classic" and I have no problems selecting it to boot OS9 when I need to.
Originally posted by mrmister
You can actually rename the OS9 System Folder--mine is named
"Classic" and I have no problems selecting it to boot OS9 when I need to.
Although if you ever find need to boot into 9 (not sure whym just if you did) that could cause problems....Of course, while yours obviously can, since you just switched, new Macs can't boot 9 anyway, so yeah, just thought i'd throw that out there. And welcome to X, it took me a while to be convinced, but 10.1 finally did it for me, I've been in X for a year and a half now, and love it. And I find myself using classic less and less all the time. When I first switched, I used it a lot, but now I only keep it around for a couple of apps, that I have to use every once and a while, and are 9 only. Anyway, yeah, done rambling now...
That was a scary thing at the time because it was only a few versions past the 10.0 beta version. (10.0.3 or something.) All of that crazy printing flew on the screen and nobody on the forums really knew what to tell me.
Danged if I can remember what I actually ended up doing to solve it. That seems so long ago and OS X is so much better these days.
Have fun.
...now the world has lost another sucker
My OS 9 installation lives on another hard drive, on the shelf...