Phipli
Well-known member
I was playing with a feature I read about, I think in my Mac II manual, a while ago today. I don't remember hearing it talked about much.
In System 6 and older you can switch between running System Folders on the fly by holding Command+Option and double clicking on a non-running Finder. It doesn't reload startup extensions, so I suspect there are functional limits, but it is a handy way of ejecting a boot disk if you need to, or possibly have a system on a disk you want to use and don't want to be disk swapping. Also you can switch to a disk with a different Control Panel set or something.
Sadly, while quickly casting around I could only find almost identical copies of 6.0.7, so... the following is less informative than it could be. But, try it yourself if curious. Be warned that trying to switch to System 7 caused my SE to crash.
Note the disk mount order during the following :
In System 6 and older you can switch between running System Folders on the fly by holding Command+Option and double clicking on a non-running Finder. It doesn't reload startup extensions, so I suspect there are functional limits, but it is a handy way of ejecting a boot disk if you need to, or possibly have a system on a disk you want to use and don't want to be disk swapping. Also you can switch to a disk with a different Control Panel set or something.
Sadly, while quickly casting around I could only find almost identical copies of 6.0.7, so... the following is less informative than it could be. But, try it yourself if curious. Be warned that trying to switch to System 7 caused my SE to crash.
Note the disk mount order during the following :