Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Re: bitch, bitch, bitch (two-disk management) Message-ID: <1598@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 03:49:17 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.1598 Posted: Wed Aug 29 03:49:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Sep-84 09:40:40 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 31 From: Larry Baer The Mac certainly does a less-than-good job of handling disk space and finding files on a two-drive system, but you can make better use of disk storage once you understand the Mac's limitations. I will describe the method I use, and I hope that others with two-disk experience will send their own suggested improvements and alternatives. (No guesses, please.) The System File and the Finder may reside on either disk, but when running an application from some disk (call it the ApplDisk), the Scrapbook, Notepad, Clipboard, and Imagewriter files must reside on the ApplDisk. Trying to print a file from MacWrite will fail if ImageWriter cannot be found on the ApplDisk; calling up the Scrapbook or Notepad accessory will create an empty Scrapbook File or Notepad File on the ApplDisk if such a file does not already exist. Given this, I have a "Boot Disk" that stays in the internal drive all the time. Its only permanent files are all of the System Folder files, including a System File that has many fonts. I have various "application disks" that I use in the external drive; these contain applications that I typically use together, such as MacWrite/MacPaint, and MacTerminal/File/ QuickPrint. The application disks have a System Folder that does not contain either Finder or System File; leaving these two files out of the application disk's System Folder frees up much space (over 200K). The Boot Disk has plenty (about 100K) of free space; it can be used by programs that are smart enough to use that space, and by humans copying files from one application disk to another. Larry Baer