On Windows, it can cause registry problems IF the program is installable ('can' being the operative word - some apps may be fine, others may not be). Programs that come distributed as Zip/RAR/7z archives and require no install routines will more than likely be fine.
On a Mac, though, I have no idea.
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Why would you need to partition a drive? All that would do is split one drive into two. It won't give you anymore space. You could just move the movies to the external and leave it plugged in for the kids to have access to. It's really as simple as that.
I have my Time Machine (mac app) backups on that external. When I turn it on the Time Machine icon comes up. I figure if I attempt to move something into there it could muck up the backups.
Even if you were able to safely move programs to the external, they would run noticeably slower unless maybe it's using an eSATA connection.
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..you'd think it shouldn't be this difficult~I'd understood there was no difference between an internal & external other than the location; maybe I should just do all this over on the PC and stick another HD in it-there's a slot for it (tip o' the hat to PC flexibility)...
..you'd think it shouldn't be this difficult~I'd understood there was no difference between an internal & external other than the location; maybe I should just do all this over on the PC and stick another HD in it-there's a slot for it (tip o' the hat to PC flexibility)...
There's backup software, and there's the connection. Other than those two, you're right. You can't really move an installed program to another internal drive or partition without mucking stuff up either. It's also subject to the same limitations of different partition types, so if you want to move your drive between the PC and Mac, you need special software. It's getting impractical to tell people to re-format as FAT32 and only use files under 2 GB these days.
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There's backup software, and there's the connection. Other than those two, you're right. You can't really move an installed program to another internal drive or partition without mucking stuff up either. It's also subject to the same limitations of different partition types, so if you want to move your drive between the PC and Mac, you need special software. It's getting impractical to tell people to re-format as FAT32 and only use files under 2 GB these days.
Although admittedly, the special software required is trivial and doesn't cost a cent. NTFS-3G for Mac is the only thing necessary and voila, OS X can recognize and read/write NTFS volumes reliably (OS X, as of Tiger anyway, does have *some* internal support for NTFS already, but it's ridiculously fickle; NTFS-3G works on top of FUSE and guarantees pretty much 100% usability - the same setup is also used on a lot of Linux distros now to work with NTFS).
The reverse, reading HFS/HFS+ volumes under Windows, still requires you shell out money for MacDrive or something. Last I heard though, FUSE is supposed to gain Windows support, and after that happens it should be pretty easy to port the HFS/HFS+ support over. I still don't see FUSE-based support as optimal (considering it uses a different method than the source OS to support additional filesystems), but if it works, it works.
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