[Heman]

I know in OSX I have to put all my personally stuffs in my home folder, but if I put them in other partitions, it seems that no applications other than Finder will be able to access them. Say if I wanna open a file in word, all I can see are only those folders in my Home folder.

I admit I'm a bit old fashioned (I still prefer the calssic way) But I'm just trying to simulate the old way of working. Can some experts here help?

[version]

You should be able to see all your partitions. In the open/save dialogue, you might have to navigate to the root of your computer and then you'll see all your drives/partitions, and then navigate through them to where your file is saved. You could make a favourite to them as well.