Office 2004 Applications folder: downside of moving to anotherpartition?

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

The Microsoft Office 2004 folder presently resides in its default location
in my Panther Applications folder.

Is there any downside of moving it to a 2nd partition and aliasing it back
to the Applications folder?

Respectfully, Norm

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

The Microsoft Office 2004 folder presently resides in its default location
in my Panther Applications folder.

Is there any downside of moving it to a 2nd partition and aliasing it back
to the Applications folder?

Nope (unless the partition is formatted in UFS).
Actually that's the case for me right now and the apps run like a charm.

I would even add that the evil Carbon Registration Database issue in
Office X is gone in 2004 so I can even run Office with my use folder
relocated on a separate partition.
Be careful with the permissions on the drive though sinec MacOS X
doesn't fix anything permission-wise anywhere else than on the regular
locations of the boot volume...


Corentin

 

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

Nope (unless the partition is formatted in UFS).
Actually that's the case for me right now and the apps run like a charm.

I would even add that the evil Carbon Registration Database issue in
Office X is gone in 2004 so I can even run Office with my user folder
relocated on a separate partition.
Be careful with the permissions on the drive though sinec MacOS X
doesn't fix anything permission-wise anywhere else than on the regular
locations of the boot volume...

Corentin

Thanks very much, Corentin. That's good news, indeed, (including the bonus
info you mentioned on Office 2004 getting rid of the Office X Carbon
Registration Database issue, another bonus I got for upgrading!).

Do you keep your 2nd partition on which your Office 2004 Applications now
reside journaled? Does it make any difference what OS, if any, is on the
2nd partition if it is not the boot volume?

Respectfully, Norm

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Thanks very much, Corentin. That's good news, indeed, (including the bonus
info you mentioned on Office 2004 getting rid of the Office X Carbon
Registration Database issue, another bonus I got for upgrading!).

I couldn't be happier )

Do you keep your 2nd partition on which your Office 2004 Applications now
reside journaled? Does it make any difference what OS, if any, is on the
2nd partition if it is not the boot volume?

All my drives and partitioned are journaled. I don't see any decrease of
performance with Journalling so why not use it...


Corentin