[darrick]

i had a big problem saturday: i was going to boot into os9 to make some adjustments to make classic run better; i changed the startup disk to os9 and hot restar; half way through shutting down, safari wouldn't quit so the restart stopped; i quit safari and restarted again; and got as os9 looking flashing question mark; ran disk first aid off my jaguar disk and it said all was ok; but the computer could not find a system file it seemed; it would only boot onto the cd even while i held down the x key.

so i reinstalled jaguar, saving the old system. i've copied over the extra alert sounds and fonts and such from the old system files onto the new one.

now, i want to to trash the old system files, but i'm afraid something i'll need tomorrow will vanish.

advice?

[zachs]

The files in the Previous System folders don't affect your current system in any way. So go ahead and trash the Previous System folders.

[darrick]

granted they don't affect the current system...

i just worried there was a trap for the unwary lurking.

is there anything nonobvious to be copied over to the new system that i might not have thought of?

like the extra fonts and system alerts.

it makes sense that i should just trash it but it feels wrong.