I have music editing programs like Reason, Soundtrack Pro, MainStage, Logic Pro, and Live, and I also have some movie/photo editing software. The only thing I really use often is Photoshop. (Another story for my previous Windows use) Since switching to Mac, I myself have never pirated anything. txt file with a list of serial numbers in it, (which, I know pirated torrents come in files like that with a list of serial numbers.) another thing I found shady is some of my 'paid' programs are in folders that have a. HD, giving my Mac plenty of space) I do have SuperDuper downloaded, and after reading your post, I think it'll be wise to do a back-up with S.D. (I usually just keep the necessities on my Mac and keep the rest on my Ex. Unless this is fixed, I need to keep Jaguar, and a Jaguar-compatible Mac, around to do this.'įortunately, several readers have reported that Mac OS X 10.2's Disk Copy can be successfully used under Mac OS X 10.3, eliminating the need to keep a Mac OS X 10.2 partition handy for some of the above problems.I actually just used Time Machine today before running Maintenance, so the (very little) data I had on my Mac is backed-up to my Western Digital external HD. I also have to be sure I don't erase the OS 9 partition in Panther. I believe this is because the erase added the free space partition.īolzan 'Bottom line, at least as far as Mac OS 9 compatibility is concerned-to prepare a FireWire drive with a good OS 9 boot partition, I need to partition it in Jaguar. The blinking floppy appears for awhile, then finally the smiling Mac, but nothing further. If you partition the disk in Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2.x), with Mac OS 9 drivers, but erase a partition in Panther before copying an OS 9 system to it, a Mac booting from the OS 9 system will hang.If you use Panther disk utility to erase any partition in the volume, all volumes are marked 'ignore permissions on this volume'.In fact, if the volume is selected for boot while in OS 9 and the Mac restarted, none of the FireWire volumes mount. A volume partitioned in Panther can not be used to boot OS 9. Disk utility in Panther does not have the checkbox to load OS 9 drivers.Now Mark Bolzan reports several other limitations/changes that make it difficult to create an external FireWire drive with multiple partitions to boot machines into either Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. We previously noted several limitations of Mac OS X 10.3's Disk Utility, which is supposed to replicate much of the functionality present in Mac OS X 10.2's Disk Copy.Īmong the noted limitations are that Disk Utility sports no preferences and therefore, no settings for imaging options such as default segment size, maximum segment size, burning defaults, etc.

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