![]() If I buy an external hard drive and load Tiger onto that hard drive, that will also put the classic environment on the external drive. As I understand it, I have two 400 Firewire Ports on this iMac. *"force that folder to have the correct permissions, by running an administrator user account and selecting Get Info from the File menu after clicking on the said folder, and change ownership and permissions for all enclosed items in that folder."* It did not work, and I am not messing around with Batchmod.no way Jose'. I guess I'm not computer savvy enough to understand half of what everybody has been saying. I have an 80 gig Hard Drive and still have 48 gigs available. ![]() Sounds like now I maybe shouldn't have done that. Someone told me they just write over each other. I have upgraded from System 9 to System 10 and just kept installing them as they came. They asked how I could have Tiger and Leopard on the same drive? Maybe now is a good time to ask. I remember seeing another question in a reply. Right there in plain site, but inaccessible. It was excellent if you were creative, inventive, or had to keep an important project from wandering eyes. I can't understand why they would stop supporting such a good program. We got this far, please don't leave me hanging now. The files do not need to run in Classic, being that they are AppleWorks 6, but the "Apple File Security" program that locks and unlocks the files, needs the Classic environment in order to run the encryption program? I almost sound like I know what I'm talking about. In the past, for the few years I've been doing computer work (I'm 62), I have always locked (encrypted) them with an old "Apple File Security" program. They contain important information for a project I'm working on. This software is very dangerous and it could render your entire system unbootable if you accidently drag and drop either the user folder or hard drive over its window, so be careful if you get it. Sometimes the change all enclosed items command doesn't work, and you need to use Batchmod. If there are applications or an operating system in that folder, changing its permissions is unwise as it would make that folder unbootable! If you no longer need to run any Classic applications, but have a locked folder of just plain documents with no applications, you can force that folder to have the correct permissions, by running an administrator user account and selecting Get Info from the File menu after clicking on the said folder, and change ownership and permissions for all enclosed items in that folder. ![]() USB hard drives can't boot Tiger on a PowerPC Mac. If Tiger was installed on the same partition as Leopard, and you installed an Upgrade or Archive and Install of Leopard on the same partition, Tiger is no longer present on the computer. If Tiger is installed on a separate or Firewire hard drive, go to Apple menu -> System preferences -> Startup Disk and select Tiger there to get access back to Tiger, as well as Classic.
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