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Disable TimeMachine Drive in Finder
When I open a Save as dialog, Finder starts to scan my external TimeMachine drive which needs to "boot up" some seconds. This makes the dialog very unresponsive, because it waits for the drive to be ...
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Time Machine wiped my external drive despite pressing “Don't Use”
I have an external hard drive(formatted as FAT32) that has been in use on/off for years. I even had backups on it (not using time machine). I mounted this hard drive, it was taking a while to mount. A ...
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How do I make the hard drive visible in the Finder?
On OS X Lion I don't see the hard drive in the Finder and I seem to have no permission to create a folder under / from terminal.
I know I can do this if I activate the root user, but I need to be ...
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How do I not accidentally eject external drives?
I have a Mac Mini with a few external drives connected that I use as a home server. Normally the Eject buttons next to the drive icon are really handy as they let me eject an external drive very ...
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Hard Drives shows up in Finder, but not Desktop
In the past when I have plugged in external hard-drives they would always show up on the desktop. I'm not sure if it is because of a software update or the drive itself but it's no longer showing up.
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How can I hide a local disk in Finder at root level?
I want to hide some local disks from left pane (Devices section) in Finder.
I want to remove them from the list of all disks at root level.
What is the command in terminal?
PS: I can't unmount ...
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How to make ntfs-3g drive visible in Finder
I was using Tuxera NTFS for a while on my external drives but then my trial ran out.
So then I installed ntfs-3g from macports.
When I connect my external drive, OSX automatically mounts it, but it ...
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MacBook Pro: Strange crashes
I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro about a month ago. I'm pretty happy with it for the most part, but I've been having a few issues which I find very worrisome. I'm a computer science student, but my ...
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can i delete “developer-old” folder?
I've got a "developer-old" folder besides for my "developer" folder. "developer-old" contains "headers", "SDKs", etc folders.
It'd be nice to delete this folder bc it takes up 10GB. Can I?
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Synchronise/Merge MP3 collections without duplication or huge copies
I have one drive containing about 90GB of MP3s which is used at home, it serves three Squeezebox players though the Slimserver software running on one of the desktop Macs.
I have a separate firewire ...
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How do I change the name of the hard drive
Right now my hard drive is called "Macintosh HD." How do I change it to something cool like "Death Killer"
