Ok, thanks! By extension, would this mean that I could also avoid directory issues if I disabled Spotlight all together? I don't really use it anyway.
That's a yes but it's probably easier to just lock it out of OS9 it's one click.
All you have to do is select the OS9 partition in System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy
Personally, I like Spotlight. The only minor annoyance is when it sometimes decides to update its index right after startup, grabbing CPU cycles. If left to itself though, it gets it together and does that less and less.
I forgot to mention this initially, but it's an iBook G3 that I bought. One of the 500 MHz models. The RAM ceiling is 640 MB. Would those specs be good enough to run Tiger comfortably you'd say? Or would you recommend sticking to strictly OS 9 for this?
FWIW, I ran Tiger and OS9 on a G3 Desktop with about that much memory for quite a while and it was fine.
Running Tiger and 6 big apps simultaneously could cause a memory shortage… Of course, running Jaguar and 6 big apps is a guaranteed kernel panic…
It's a basic iBook. Common sense goes a long way.
* I have iFreeMem in the menu bar. It will help you get the most out of what memory you have in OSX. Google it.