Need help on placing apps

[dakota]

Forgive a Jaguar novice for a rater convoluted set of questions, but....

1) If I have apps in my applications (9) folder which are running native on Jaguar, such as Appleworks, etc, can I just shift them to my apps folder?

2)  If I now have two sets of apps for certain programs, such as Appleworks, Font Reserve, etc., can I delete the classic ones from my HD or do I have to leave them?  And what, if anything, do I do about all the extensions or control panels which belong to them?

I will be getting a G5 next month and will no longer be booting from System 9.2.2, so I want to remove as much "junk" as I can at this point, but I don't want to lose something I need.  Any help would be appreciated!

[kelly]

1. I don't see why not.

2. You can delete them if you're sure you'll never need them.

Are you?

If you're going to get rid of them.

Delete everything that belongs to them. Control Panels, Extensions, Preferences.

[ljocampo]

1.  Moving the apps into OSX apps folder should be fine.

2.  If the apps have a OSX equvilent version or they are carbonized, then the OSX version can take over any function the classic version did. Just make sure your prefs are set up to recognize any classic docs. If you have a doc that doesn't open in the OSX version, then open the doc from the OSX version and do a save as.  This will make it an OSX doc.

Some docs might open in classic if the classic app is still there.  As for the OS9 extensions, I wouldn't throw them out yet.  Just disable them with extension manager until you see that the OSX version has taken over the task.  Then it would be safe to scrap them  But remember OS9 app shares libraries, so classic may need some of these to function.