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    New to Mac - organizing documents?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dario.vukelic, Oct 2, 2009.

  1. dario.vukelic

    dario.vukelic Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys,
    I have a "weird" question.
    I`ve bought my first mac 2 months ago and I love it!
    I`m still learning, so I have a question:
    When I was using Windows I had Hard drive C: and D:,
    so all my stuff(music, pictures, documents) were on D:
    So Im confused a little bit.

    What should I do on mac, because I`m still putting all my stuff on Macintosh HD.
    What if I need to reinstall OS X? When I was using Windows, I didn`t have problems.

    So should I keep my stuff on Places - Documents or should I copy my stuff to Mac HD?

    Thanks :)

    D.
     
    dario.vukelic, Oct 2, 2009
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  2. RogueMonk

    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

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    Places - Documents is on the Mac HD. Its just a shortcut to the that directory.

    I wouldn't worry about it. That being said, like anything else, you should have a proper backup strategy.
     
    RogueMonk, Oct 3, 2009
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  3. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    The Places -> Documents is like My Documents in windows. The Macintosh HD is like the C: drive. If you want to partition and put everything on a separate partition you can, but you don't need to, and I wouldn't, this isn't windows!

    If you click on your Mac hard drive -> Users -> (Username) -> Documents you get to the same place as you would by clicking Documents under Places.
     
    Seshan, Oct 3, 2009
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  4. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    In windows reinstalling the OS and getting everything like your movies and stuff as a pain so thats why it was a good idea to just have the OS on one partition. But on OS X thats not the case, Time Machine makes back up a real piece of cake so even if you have to reinstall the OS a simple time machine back up and you have your old mac files back within 1 - 2 hours.
     
    MKang25, Oct 4, 2009
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  5. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    just get an extra hard drive to use for Time Machine and nothing to worry about.
     
    doh123, Oct 4, 2009
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