Digital BW, The Print

Makes great sense Bob. I'll do it right away.

Jerry







Bob Whitmore wrote:
> 
> >
> >>
> >>  - 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.
> >
> >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
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