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[G40]

When I set up my G4 I stuck two (IDE) hard drives in, thinking one for data and audio files and the other for apps and system files.

I've noticed recently that the Audio/Data drive has ended up with duplicates of all the system folders, including applications. They don't seem to be identical to the folders on the system drive, but they do seem to have some identical files...

Apologies for my ignorance but (as someone who is a PC native and a mac dabbler) this seems very odd!

Performance considerations aside it defeats the object of having everything neatly sorted into the two drives. In an ideal world, in the event of issues, it would be nice to be able to nuke the system drive, and reinstall but keep the data...

As things stand I'd be tempted to merge the two drives to keep everything clear and simple - but will that break my system? I've got way more space than I need anyway and at this stage I have firewire and SCSI drives than I can use for audio projects, if needed...

Or am I looking at things the wrong way?

Apologies again if I'm being very stupid. I haven't plugged the machine in for over a year so I'm definitely rusty on what's what!