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From: bskendig@dew.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: Two system folders on same disk (= death?)
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Date: 17 Nov 90 00:49:04 GMT
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In article <39636@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> biswa@galileo.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes:
>.... Is it o.k. to keep
>two system folders on the hard disk, as long as only one of them has the
>name "System Folder," so that only that one is the "blessed" folder? Then if
>I rename the system folder to something else, and rename the other folder to
>System Folder, will it become blessed?
> ...
>Or is there a better way to do it?
>Or is this a *bad* thing to do?

This is a bad way to do it, for the sole reason that it won't work. ;)
The Macintosh doesn't usually care what your System Folder is named.

The trick to using two (or more!) System Folders on a single disk is
that you have to make the computer think that one of them isn't a
valid System Folder.  The way I do this is to create a new folder
(which I usually call `Finderfolder'), and drag the Finder of the
unwanted System Folder into it.  As long as the Macintosh doesn't see
the System and the Finder files in the same level of the same folder,
it won't bless that folder.

So, in short, to switch from the English system to the Thai system,
here's what you would do:

- Open the English system folder, create an empty folder, and put the
Finder into it.

- Open the Thai system folder, and drag its Finder out of the folder
you hid it in before.

That should work.  If by some chance the System Folder isn't `blessed'
in the transition (that is, if it doesn't have the Macintosh icon on
it), you'll have to move the Finder out onto the desktop, close the
System Folder, and drag the Finder back onto the folder's icon.

Good luck!

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