I may have screwed up....

In moving from OS9, assuming that my "housekeeping" strategies would work on Tiger, I may have done two things that could cause me problems...
I have long partitioned my hard drive, one for all my data (easy to find, organized by MY filing scheme, regardless of app), the other for System ƒ, applications, utilities, etc. This also makes backups easier, dragging my data drive contents to CD, then dragging email and bookmarks to another CD.
Well, this works, but perhaps OSX automatically dumps all user-created files to the "Documents" folder? If so, I've limited myself with arbitrary partition sizes for nothing! ;-(
I'm using a SMALL portion of each partition at this time. Other than backing up my data, if I delete the partition, will I run into other problems? (Grrrr.....)
Next question: I'm using a number of older applications (run in "Classic"), and figured they ought to be in a separate applications folder from OSX apps. I now have 3 apps folders (Applications, Applications ƒ, and Apps ƒ [OS9]). I'm not sure how there are 3, but I've noticed that when I try to open a document, the system can't seem to find the right application.
Have I caused a problem, and how do I rectify it?
I have other problems I'm researching on Eudora Forums, with Adobe, and have been recommended a good, simple OSX Tiger book.... Hopefully, I can be up and productive on my 'new' iBook someday soon.... (At least as productive as BEFORE I changed Macs and OS.)
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I have long partitioned my hard drive, one for all my data (easy to find, organized by MY filing scheme, regardless of app), the other for System ƒ, applications, utilities, etc. This also makes backups easier, dragging my data drive contents to CD, then dragging email and bookmarks to another CD.
OSX itself needs a lot of room because it is constantly writing temporary files. For example on my computer OSX is regularly using about 6 GB for these files. Moreover it really needs at least double that in free space on my computer in order to run fast because if it gets crowded it has to hunt around for where to put files. Bottom line, if I am getting below 20GB free space I start thinking about moving files off. What this is saying to you is you have to start thinking in larger terms than a CD or even a DVD.
With OSX there isn't really any reason to partition and partitioning (as you are finding) can be restrictive. The only partitions I have are on my external 250 GB drive so that each matches the size of my two 120GB internal drives for backup purposes.
Well, this works, but perhaps OSX automatically dumps all user-created files to the "Documents" folder?
That's the default location for many applications to save files, but you can of course save them almost wherever you like (can't get them into a different account directly).
I'm using a SMALL portion of each partition at this time. Other than backing up my data, if I delete the partition, will I run into other problems?
No, the contrary.
You really should get an external Firewire drive for doing backups. Make this at least as large as the internal drive you are using. Get a Firewire drive so you can boot your computer from it if necessary. You're going to find this is cheaper (in the long run), faster and easier than using CDs. You've probably noticed you can't even back up the OS on a CD now. You can use a technique called cloning to copy and update your whole drive in one go, and should your internal fail ("when", not "should") you can clone back to a new drive easily.
Next question: I'm using a number of older applications (run in "Classic"), and figured they ought to be in a separate applications folder from OSX apps. I now have 3 apps folders (Applications, Applications ƒ, and Apps ƒ [OS9]). I'm not sure how there are 3, but I've noticed that when I try to open a document, the system can't seem to find the right application.
That isn't so much to do with your various folders. I have all my OS9 apps on a different drive even. OSX needs a bit more training than OS9 in learning how to open new file types, and it helps to keep file extensions (I have mine displayed by default, a habit from my DOS days 20 years ago that I kept all the way through OS6 to the present). Find a file of the type of a general category for an application. Highlight the file, then use the Finder "get info" to get a display of the file details. Near the bottom is an option to select the application with which to open the file. If the application isn't in the general list you can select "other" and go find it. If you want to open all files of that general kind with this application click the "open all of this type" button.
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