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Wed 9 Jun 2004, 16:47
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i'm sure that most people have somewhat the same set up as i do, in that i have one 'boot' drive (40gig wd) for my applications and another 'capture' drive (160gig wd) for all my saved files (music, videos, pics, documents etc...). this is in case my boot drive gets corrupted, all my work is safe on another drive.
so i just cleared my drives and installed panther on both. when i put all my music files and my pics back on to my capture drive, it seems that it duplicates everthing onto the boot drive to access it. i'm having trouble telling my mac that all my files are coming from my capture. panther really wants to access everything from the boot. (i.e. if i have an mp3 on my capture and play it in itunes, it will remain on my capture and a file will be created in the itunes music folder on my boot, even though i've changed the directory in my itunes preferences). i don't remember this happening with jaguar. can anyone off some advice?
thanks, d
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Wed 9 Jun 2004, 21:41
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Don't know if this will help, but I just installed a second hard drive (Seagate Barracuda) on my G5 running 10.3.1. I am using it to store music files while keeping the apps on the original (boot) drive. Somewhere I read that one should not install the op system on the second drive, so I didn't. Everything works fine. Perhaps you should take the system off the second drive.
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Thu 10 Jun 2004, 20:21
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I never install the operational system in a second drive. Why should I. One drive manages all software (partitioned with classic or not), and the other drives just hold the files.
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Fri 11 Jun 2004, 00:50
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Don. Let us know if this solves the problem. Thanks!
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Fri 11 Jun 2004, 13:25
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Thanks for this topic. If you have all of your files on a separate Hard Drive can you still open the file, or must you transfer it the Drive with the Application every time you need it?
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Fri 11 Jun 2004, 15:17
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QUOTE (terrywil @ Jun 10 2004, 23:50) Don. Let us know if this solves the problem. Thanks! not a problem... but it may be later on in the week before i have a chance to sit down for a few hours and get it done... i'll keep y'all posted... .d.
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