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In Odyssey 241 I outlined the reasons why I had decided not to partition the hard drive on my new iBook. The arguments seemed logical the time, and I had convinced myself that an unpartitioned drive was the way to go with this machine. However, after a week, I came to the realization that I wasn't going to be happy with a single volume hard drive. It was difficult to find stuff because it was all in the same place as far as teh Find utility and Sherlock II were concerned. There was confusion between OS X and OS 9 versions of the same software. And when I tried test runs of Disk Warrior and Norton Disk Doctor, they had to scan the whole drive, which takes forever. I was not a happy camper, so last evening I bit the bullet can reformatted the 20 gigabyte hard drive with three partitions -- an 11 GB one for OS X; a 3 GB boot partition for OS 9.2.2 and my OS 9 applications, and one of a bit less than 5 GB at the bottom for storage of archives and other stuff that's not accessed very often. That's one less than my usual four partitions, but it should do the trick nicely. I booted from the OS X 10.2.1 Restore CDs that came with the iBook, a used Disk Utility to partition the drive; then reinstalled OS X, all of which went smoothly. I didn't bother using the Restore Software CDs, but just dragged the bundled applications that interested me over to my FireWire drive before I partitioned the disk. I also already had a copy of the original OS 9..2.2 System Folder that came installed on the iBook on the FireWire drive, which obviated using the Restore Software CD to reinstall OS 9. I just dragged the System Folder over from the FireWire drive to my OS 9 boot partition on the iBook drive. Unfortunately, I of course lost all the software installation and configuration work I've done over the past couple of weeks, but better now than later. The unpartitioned drive would have been aNovember ongoing source of frustration. 11 MB should be enough to handle OS X for the foreseeable future. Sometimes one's first instincts are the correct ones. A guy who partitioned the little 20 MB drive on his Mac Plus is just not going to be satisfied with an unpartitioned 20 GB drive. Minimize-in-Place: use with some caution Oh wow! Another great launcher From Tobias Buckell Just caught your latest Odyssey colum: MIP is really neat, but it still suffers one problem that makes me prone to windowshading yet: I don't know for sure what is in the window minimized (either in dock or in MIP). With windowshade I have a line of text that says what it is. Other issues arise though: 1) My desktop is cluttered with other icons. With a browser, or typed document MIPd, at a glance it is hard to tell what is what. Understandable why they didn't let it rip, newbies would be thoroughly confused... 2) My monitor is just small enough I can't really tell what it is 100%. Wish I could choose a slightly smaller size (I may have to make desktop icons really small, sniff I can see why they chose not too, but they should have stuck a button in 'settings' somewhere. It is actually really neat, I'm just going to have to rearrange some things to use. Still leaving windowshading on though ;-)
Hi Tobias;
Thanks for the report. I haven't tried it yet, as both my machines are (one of them back to) running 10.2.1,
Charles Minimize-in-Place: use with some caution From Mark Abrams Charles, You should be aware that Minimize-in-Place was present only in an early build of Jaguar, and that the way to use MIP in 10.2.x is to replace your Dock with the Dock from the early seed. In other words, this is very much a hack, so be careful. I find MIP very interesting, but not yet quite finished, which is no doubt why Apple pulled it back to do some more work on it. I've got a feeling that it will be -- in some form -- in the next major upgrade. Another drawback to using the MIP-enabled Dock is that the (incredibly useful, btw) keyboard shortcuts that one can use with the Dock for hiding and revealing in Finder have been disabled -- option and option-command clicking, and command-clicking Docked apps, respectively. For me, this alone wasn't worth using the hack.
best,
Hi Mark;
Thanks for the caveats.
Charles From Anonymous Charles, http://cs.oberlin.edu/~dadamson/DragonDrop/ Great Scott, tabbed folders are back!
Sincerely,
See Shareware Beat today. :-)
Charles From anonymous Charles,
Quickerpicker:
Just add folders to scan for applications, rescan as you add them, and it works almost as well as Launchbar itself.
Sincerely,
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