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I'm wondering if there are any drawbacks to having the OS (in this case OS 10.8.5) and applications and documents on another. I'd be most grateful for help with this. Thanks.
Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 24GB RAM/MOTU 2408 mk3 audio interface
It may complicate the process of backing up your data, and some applications, including all OS components, need to be on the Mac OS X boot volume.
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It may complicate the process of backing up your data, and some applications, including all OS components, need to be on the Mac OS X boot volume.
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As I said the OS and all applications would be on one partition and the documents, music, pictures on another partition. The reason I brought this up is that I'm using a partition on an SSD as the boot drive. The boot SSD requires a driver. This driver has been problematic - - there appear to be software conflicts of various kinds. One issue, for example, is that rebuilding the directory with DiskWarrior 5.0 causes the computer to be unable to awake from sleep. Having the documents on a separate partition would mean (presumably) that the directory of that partition could be rebuilt without affecting the OS. All the companies involved are attempting to find a solution but has come up with one so I'm looking for a workaround.
Thanks
That should work, but as Niel posted it could complicate backing up.
Drawbacks to OS & Apps on on partition and documents on another?
