hey man,

bought a powerbook and i am trying to partition my 80 gig hardrive..

My question is How big should ur systems partition be compared to app compared to data.. whats a good size for a each partiton.. i plan to install big apps like photoshop, dreamweaver.etc..

another question is... what kinds of files or folders go in the data partition.
yeah not good with computers, so can someone explain to me wut a data partition would be used for..

I read your words of wisdom before I installed OS X 10.4.6 onto a ibook G4 that was given to me because it was "working not so good" and it had old software on it" . Well the good news is after I followed the advice of you and the others .. my install went flawlessly and i now have a year old notebook that kicks but.. i only invested in some family packs. Since then .. I've revived some more G4 ibooks and G4 mac minis and distributed them to my teaching staff and students.. Mahalo for the Great Advice.

Hello, has anyone any ideas about .tmp files being created when saving illustrator files and .qxp files being created when saving Quark Xpress files on a mac Xraid. And why a message when trying to save some files, particularly Photoshop files, that says "file already open for writing" so I save to my desktop and then try to move the file back on the Xraid and overwrite the now "old" file, but a message says I dont have the right privileges and when I try to delete the "old" file on the Xraid it says it is busy?

Help: I cannot download software from software Update. I get: /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate. I have tried everything listed on the web and NOTHING works. So I get no downloads. Can you help? : (