Digital BW, The Print

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>>  - Unless you have an awfully good reason for this setup, Having
>>  a System Folder on *each* of your HDs is a recipe for confusion,
>>  not to mention overkill.
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>Yes, but if everything went wrong on my main drive, it would be awful
>nice to have a bootable working backup drive.

I agree with both statements. But the way to do this I think is to 
rename the systems that are serving as the backups something other 
than "system" (perhaps their version; i.e. "9.2.1"). This will 
prevent the system folders in which they reside from being "blessed" 
with the special system folder icon and it will prevent the Mac from 
booting from them. Should one's working system ever fail 
castastrophically, one can boot from a CD just to rename the backup 
system back to "system". That system folder will then become 
re-"blessed" and -voila- a bootable backup system on call - and - one 
that stays in the garage with the doors locked until it is needed.

Unless Jerry does something like this, I think it is inevitable that 
he will continue to experience strange happenings such as 
disappearing plug ins, probably caused by multiple preference folders 
in multiple system folders. Unblessing those system folders should 
prevent the preferences therein to be confused with the active ones.

It's just Good Mac Hygiene!


Bob Whitmore