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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1260580"><p>Hi and welcome. Before we get into this, I just want to compliment you on a brilliant post that is clearly thought-out, easy to read, and to the point. Bless you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I approve of this, but unfortunately your conditions make that impractical.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While most of the really popular PC games make their way over to the Mac sooner or later (and I mean that literally -- some are released on the same day, others two years later), not all of them do. While CrossOver Games and Steam can help with some of this, if you're really into a lot of the latest stuff and don't want to wait, I think a Bootcamp-enabled Win partition is the way to go.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My only "dire" warning is that you should read my essay (link at the bottom of this post). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The elegant solution is to buy the software that enables the NTFS write support -- someone here will chime in if there's a better option than Paragon, but as I recall all of the NTFS solutions are pretty cheap. The free solution is the one you mention. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've had some luck with it running basic Windows programs as experiments, but no luck running anything major. They sell and support CrossOver Games as well as "regular" edition. Codeweavers' own site lists MS Access 2000 as having "Bronze" support, meaning (in their own words) it will install and run, but there are enough bugs that they warn customers to use the program with caution (save often, in other words). </p><p></p><p>Given your two specific needs, I have to recommend that you give up on the idea of keeping the machine all-Mac. You'll have a much easier experience setting up a separate Windows partition using Boot Camp and just booting into Windows when you need it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You've heard incorrectly. iPhoto automatically (unless you opt to turn this off) stores your photos in a single PACKAGE, but that's not the same as a single file (more like a folder, just one that isn't immediately accessible). I find iPhoto to be FAR superior to Picasa, but you can judge it for yourself and always use Picasa on the Mac if you decide you prefer it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what that means, but iPhoto DOES protect the originals from being tampered with by obscuring their location. This is to protect people from themselves and their own tendency to want to do the file-level managing themselves, which I always have to point out is what a computer should be doing. How iPhoto stores or manages the files should properly be of ZERO interest to the user as long as the program presents them in the manner desired, which it does, and as long as the program makes it easy to transfer copies of desired photos to other programs (like email), which it does. But iPhoto RELIES on its database to do its management, and if the user mucks around in the database, the database gets corrupted in the same way that examining and moving around/deleting some of the contents of a PST Outlook file may render your email unreadable. So don't do that, instead work from inside iPhoto itself to do what you want to do and everything will be fine (or alternatively simply turn off the default "let iPhoto manage stuff" preference).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Due to the duplication and potential confusion factor I can't recommend running both simultaneously except as tests to see which one you prefer using a limited and "expendable" set of photos.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not to be picky, but there's no such program as iMail. It's just called Mail.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the answer to your question is no. But email doesn't really take up significant space, so it's really kind of a non-issue unless you're emailing yourself movies or something. I could easily put every email I've gotten or sent (WITH attachments) in the last five years on a double-sided DVD-R, and I get a LOT of email (actually I just verified this -- 7.5GB over five years).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1260580"] Hi and welcome. Before we get into this, I just want to compliment you on a brilliant post that is clearly thought-out, easy to read, and to the point. Bless you. I approve of this, but unfortunately your conditions make that impractical. While most of the really popular PC games make their way over to the Mac sooner or later (and I mean that literally -- some are released on the same day, others two years later), not all of them do. While CrossOver Games and Steam can help with some of this, if you're really into a lot of the latest stuff and don't want to wait, I think a Bootcamp-enabled Win partition is the way to go. My only "dire" warning is that you should read my essay (link at the bottom of this post). :) The elegant solution is to buy the software that enables the NTFS write support -- someone here will chime in if there's a better option than Paragon, but as I recall all of the NTFS solutions are pretty cheap. The free solution is the one you mention. :) I've had some luck with it running basic Windows programs as experiments, but no luck running anything major. They sell and support CrossOver Games as well as "regular" edition. Codeweavers' own site lists MS Access 2000 as having "Bronze" support, meaning (in their own words) it will install and run, but there are enough bugs that they warn customers to use the program with caution (save often, in other words). Given your two specific needs, I have to recommend that you give up on the idea of keeping the machine all-Mac. You'll have a much easier experience setting up a separate Windows partition using Boot Camp and just booting into Windows when you need it. You've heard incorrectly. iPhoto automatically (unless you opt to turn this off) stores your photos in a single PACKAGE, but that's not the same as a single file (more like a folder, just one that isn't immediately accessible). I find iPhoto to be FAR superior to Picasa, but you can judge it for yourself and always use Picasa on the Mac if you decide you prefer it. I'm not sure what that means, but iPhoto DOES protect the originals from being tampered with by obscuring their location. This is to protect people from themselves and their own tendency to want to do the file-level managing themselves, which I always have to point out is what a computer should be doing. How iPhoto stores or manages the files should properly be of ZERO interest to the user as long as the program presents them in the manner desired, which it does, and as long as the program makes it easy to transfer copies of desired photos to other programs (like email), which it does. But iPhoto RELIES on its database to do its management, and if the user mucks around in the database, the database gets corrupted in the same way that examining and moving around/deleting some of the contents of a PST Outlook file may render your email unreadable. So don't do that, instead work from inside iPhoto itself to do what you want to do and everything will be fine (or alternatively simply turn off the default "let iPhoto manage stuff" preference). Due to the duplication and potential confusion factor I can't recommend running both simultaneously except as tests to see which one you prefer using a limited and "expendable" set of photos. Not to be picky, but there's no such program as iMail. It's just called Mail. Anyway, the answer to your question is no. But email doesn't really take up significant space, so it's really kind of a non-issue unless you're emailing yourself movies or something. I could easily put every email I've gotten or sent (WITH attachments) in the last five years on a double-sided DVD-R, and I get a LOT of email (actually I just verified this -- 7.5GB over five years). Yes. [/QUOTE]
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