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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Mac OS 9, Hacks & Upgrades => Topic started by: OS923 on July 03, 2019, 07:45:48 AM

Title: Unused files when not running under OSX
Post by: OS923 on July 03, 2019, 07:45:48 AM

Which are the files in the System Folder that may be removed if I never run OS 9 under OSX?

Title: Re: Unused files when not running under OSX
Post by: IIO on July 03, 2019, 08:43:20 AM

not much, eventually there 2-3 files in the systems root like "carbon prefs" or something. but beside that OSX is not writing stuff into it. (cant boot my macs right now.)

but there is a lot which can be removed for a bluebox-only system folder. :)

Title: Re: Unused files when not running under OSX
Post by: OS923 on July 05, 2019, 07:00:12 AM

I mean: I removed OSX, thus I run OS 9 always by booting directly into OS 9.
Now there are several files that end with "Classic" and so and I wonder what may be deleted.
There is also a "Mac OS ROM" file, and I don't see why ROM should be in a file if I have it in a ROM chip.

Title: Re: Unused files when not running under OSX
Post by: OS923 on July 08, 2019, 06:45:00 AM

It's 3 files that start with "Classic". I also removed "Login". Anything else that I may remove?

Title: Re: Unused files when not running under OSX
Post by: IIO on July 10, 2019, 06:55:03 PM

no, not in the system folder.

but of course you will have gazillions of insivible .DStore files all over on your disk, and eventually 32 bit icons of only bigsize. :)