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From: d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se. (Martin Carlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Having more than one System Folder
Message-ID: <1478@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Date: 28 Oct 89 12:05:49 GMT
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In article <520@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> seiler@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler) writes:
>I have always advised people that they should NEVER have more than one system
>folder on their hard disk, lest mysterious evils befall them. There was a time
>when someone would spend hours tracking down a system bug or crash, only to
>have it disappear when an extra system folder was removed. My question is,
>is it possible to have more than one system folder on a hard disk with 
>absolutely no fear of any problems?

I and some friends of mine have had several system folders on our hard disks
for some years now and we have never had any problem with it. Everybody says
that I should not have several system folders, but I think they do not know
what they are talking about.
To boot from another system folder I do the following:

1. I open the current system folder and drops the finder in a folder I call
   "finder folder". I can put it in any other folder too, but I have a special
   one for this. Now I have no current system folder (no system icon on any 
   system folder).
2. I open the system folder I want to boot from and drops the finder in my
   "finder folder". Observe that I have this "finder folder" in all system
   folders so it is not the same as the one in 1. Then I drag the finder back to
   the system folder again.

Now I have changed system folder! I usually keep the finders in the "finder
folder" except in the current system folder, but it works fine if I do not.
Any comments?

- Martin Carlberg
- Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden