Do my apps have to be on same hard drive as OS?

I just installed a secondary drive in my G5 DP 1.8. My original drive is 80gb, and secondary is 160gb. Because of networking issues with Quark, I was wondering if I could install my software on the bigger hard drive.

Debra-- I am no expert, and I'm not saying Allen is wrong, but I recently installed a clean system on one internal drive, but keep most of my applications on the second internal drive (in its applications folder.)
This includes all the usual Apple apps along with their associated media (i.e. iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand, etc.) This has caused no problems so far. Yes-- installing new apps will often only go to the boot drive, but there seems to be no harm in moving them off. You just have to tell these Apple ones where to find the media.
The second drive also has an OS installed on it, but I don't usually boot from it. My boot drive stays mean and lean, and that other drive is filling up rapidly.
Make sense? Am I completely misguiding her, Allan?

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How simple is it to share a monitor with the two?
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Hi George
You can share your hard drive files through Personal File Sharing. By default, this will share out your user folder (or the whole hard drive, if you log in as admin), but you can customize this more using SharePoints (which I recommend).
You can share a single monitor (and keyboard and mouse, if you like) between two Macs using a KVM switch such as this one.
Matt

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All iMac G5s and Intel iMacs both use Serial ATA hard drives. You can happily and cheaply buy new larger capacity drives easily anywhere on the highstreet. I can't really see the point in using a 2-3 year old drive if you are going to the effort of cracking one of these things open:Examples of suitable drives.
Likewise you'll probably find a brand new Superdrive is faster and pretty cheap:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MG5SL8XDLK/
mrtotes
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Moving Events and Projects from one location to another on the same hard drive.

Hello.
I've searched in the FCP X User Manual, on this forum and in Google, but have found no explanation of how to do this, so I'm posting this here in hopes that someone in our community will be able to help.
I've previously stored my FCP X Events and Projects folders on an external 3TB hard drive, because there is more room on it than on the internal 1TB hard drive, but, since then, I've worked with other media apps, for video, photography and audio, the files for which are also stored on the external hard drive, and this has created a bit of clutter with no folder structure to keep it tidy.
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Fortunately I had run a backup before starting, so I restored the original folders and the app from the backup, and all was back to normal.
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Thank you.

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I'd be grateful if anyone could advise me on whether or not it's possible to move FCP X events and projects from one place to another on the same hard drive with the app's compliance.
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Anyone?

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