Illustrator Mac Os

I received a firewire HD from our prepress house that contains 93GB worth of files. All these files were created using OS 9 and OS X. All files were transferred from a MAC server to this HD and it is formatted and journaled as an OS 10 HFS. ...

so you're comparing apples to oranges. I've also run Mac OS X on a 600 MHz iMac with Jaguar and also with Panther, only having 256 MB of RAM. ...

Mac OS X v10.2. ...

This was all occuring on a clean install of Mac OS X. I had prevoiusly erased the HD via DiskUtility, installed 10.4 and updated to 10.4.7. So I didn't initially suspect a corrupt drive. ...

Mac OS X 10.4. ...

Mac OS X constantly "eats" harddrive space. ...

at least not without Classic which requires having Mac OS 9.2. ...

of Mac Photoshop users would boot into Windows or move to Windows within three release cycles if Adobe dropped development of Photoshop for Mac. What is even worse... ...

y weren't Windows compatible. Then Apple was doomed because they DID allow clones. Then they were doomed because of Windows 95. And then because of other things. OS X wasn't working right, so Apple was definitely doomed. ...

I guess the question needs to be asked... were you a Mac user during the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X transition? ...