[X Newbies] moving applications to other partitions

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 16:59 Canada/Eastern, J Patrick Draine 
wrote:

> Can I just open-apple drag the iTunes and Mail (4K of messages) icons 
> to the big partition?

You can move applications to other locations, but why would you do it, 
since the space gained would be minimal. Instead, place your 
space-gobbling items -- such as the iTunes music library -- on the 
larger partition. Go to iTunes>Preferences>Advanced and choose a 
different iTunes music folder location. (After that, you'll have to 
move manually the contents of your present music folder to the newly 
defined one.) You can also instruct your web browsers and other apps 
(e.g., Photoshop) to keep their caches and scratch files on the larger 
partition.

Finally, running OS X off a 6GB partition is tight. Unless you've a 
special reason for it, you shouldn't run X off a partition smaller than 
10GB or (better) 15GB.

f