If you use Leopard, any downside of Installing Office 2008 onOS-free partition?

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

With Leopard, What would be the downside, if any, of installing Office 2008
on a partition used only for non-OS applications?

(One partition is for Leopard and Apple-installed applications; a 2nd
partition is for apps that do not require installation on the Leopard
partition; and the 3rd is for all documents, music and photos. The
Microsoft User Data folder resides on that Data partition; it is aliased to
the ~/Users/Documents with the word " alias" and its leading space deleted.)

Thanks for sharing your experience and insights.

Respectfully, Norm

 

[Diane Ross]

With Leopard, What would be the downside, if any, of installing Office 2008
on a partition used only for non-OS applications?

(One partition is for Leopard and Apple-installed applications; a 2nd
partition is for apps that do not require installation on the Leopard
partition; and the 3rd is for all documents, music and photos.

I save Movies on a separate drive because that's what I use the most. If I
had a big Music and Photo library I might consider moving that. Since using
iMovie involves big files, I am using a separate drive where this constant
rewriting of files doesn't fragment my main drive. Even a large Music and
Photo library doesn't usually have lots of rewriting of files so it wouldn't
benefit as much from having their own partitions.

I'm not sure I see any benefit of using separate volumes for files unless
they fall in the same type scenario.

When you partition a drive you seem to loose some GB in the process.

The
Microsoft User Data folder resides on that Data partition; it is aliased to
the ~/Users/Documents with the word " alias" and its leading space deleted.)

As long as your setup works for you, then do what you like. Just be sure to
backup your data wherever it's located.

Thanks for sharing your experience and insights.

Have you checked out the 'sandbox' method using SuperDuper! to backup your
data. It aliases your third party applications but copies over your Apple
applications. The Apple apps are updated on the sandbox only. Thus if you
update and it trashes some Apple application, you can easily revert to the
previous version by booting back into your main drive. Here's a description
of how this option works:

A Sandbox is a bootable copy of your system, stored on another hard drive or
partition, that shares (aliases) your personal documents and data with the
original. With SuperDuper!, you actually use the Sandbox as your startup
volume. You can safely install any system updates, drivers or programs in
the Sandbox, without worrying about what might happen to your system. If
anything goes wrong, you can simply start up from the original system.
SuperDuper! has preserved it in its original, pre-disaster state but all
your new and changed personal documents are totally up to date. Within
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[John McGhie]

Hi Norman:

Office 2008 comes as multiple .pkg files that will be installed by the Apple
OS installer.

No matter where you put it, components that need to be on the boot partition
will end up there.

I suspect you will get to manage some little irritations with things such as
fonts and preferences if you don't put it on the OS partition, but they
should be survivable.

Cheers

With Leopard, What would be the downside, if any, of installing Office 2008
on a partition used only for non-OS applications?

(One partition is for Leopard and Apple-installed applications; a 2nd
partition is for apps that do not require installation on the Leopard
partition; and the 3rd is for all documents, music and photos. The
Microsoft User Data folder resides on that Data partition; it is aliased to
the ~/Users/Documents with the word " alias" and its leading space deleted.)

Thanks for sharing your experience and insights.

Respectfully, Norm

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[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Thanks very much, John. This had not occurred to me.