Where’s the OS 9 Desktop?
Maybe you used Mac OS 9 for a while and added Mac OS X to your Mac, or perhaps you switch back and forth between the operating systems. If so, you might feel nervous at first because you cannot get back to the OS 9 Desktop while running OS X. You can’t get to the Desktop itself, but Mac OS X made a folder for you that contains all of the items you left on the other Desktop.
In fact, if you have more than one partition, OS X made a “Desktop Folder” for each partition. Just open the partition, and on the top level you’ll see the folder.
If your hard disk is not separated into individual partitions, then Mac OS X made a folder for you on the OS X Desktop called “Desktop (Mac OS 9).” This folder is actually an alias, but ...
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