New answers tagged hard-drive
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Time Machine local backups
If you use Time Machine, my guess is that the discrepancy is from local backups. If so, you can free up that space by connecting your Time Machine drive and running letting Time Machine complete a backup.
Once you have done that, you might want to disable local backups by issuing this command in Terminal.app:
sudo tmutil ...
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Great performance boost, apps cold startup is 1-5 sec, depending on the app
I have a 2,5" 120GB Intel 520 SATAIII SSD and HDD setup in 2011 MBP http://imgur.com/0J2dV6L
Executed some instructions from http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-for-ssd/
If you have lots of RAM and not using Photoshop or virtualization (VirtualBox, ...
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So, to summarise, if I understand correctly, you have:
old 500GB drive in an external case, with good data
new 1TB installed internally, with bad data
I would do the following:
Plug in the external 500GB drive.
Hold the option (alt) key whilst turning on the Mac, then choose to boot from the external drive.
Erase the internal drive using Disk Utility.
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GTP isn't the issue, it's the HFS+ (aka Mac OS Extended) volume inside it; in order to read that, you need HFS+ drivers for Windows (or Linux or whatever). Paragon sells a driver for this, or you could use the drivers from Apple's Boot Camp software. I can't vouch for their authenticity, but I found downloads claiming to be just the HFS+ parts of Boot Camp ...
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A partial answer: Other World Computing has extensive tables for their own use of what is compatible with what. They are also good at answering questions by email.
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"Please: if you can't name a product, can you describe its method of testing?"
I can't blame him for not naming a tool. I have no idea where you live but in the U.S. companies can sue you for criticizing them.
However, based on his experiences with a "famous tool" I would suspect it's initials are TTP.
From what I can tell, that product doesn't seem to do ...
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According to the very detailed OS X internals book and website by Amit Singh, the optimizations for hot files require only HFS+
Ten Things Apple Did To Make Mac OS X Faster
I seem to recall that only the boot volume was optimized for working sets and hot files, but can't find a good link to any other authoritative document to back up my recollections. ...
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I have to agree that it is a problem with Apple and my macbook pro, I have several external drives, usb drives, my garmin, even a thunderbold drive that seems to randomly connect. usually it is corrected with a reboot or two.
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At least 4 GB of the SSD portion of a Fusion drive is left empty at all times. That space is used for incoming writes. If there's less than 4 GB of empty space on the SSD, Core Storage will start offloading data to the HDD.
So if all your data is less than your SSD capacity less 4 GB, then you have whatever your SSD capacity is (128 GB on all Apple supplied ...
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Jean-François Beauchamp's solution doesn't work properly.
Something like this would be more appropriate:
Testing
touch abc1
touch abC1
ls ab*
Interpreting Results
1 file - case insensitive
2 files - case sensitive
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Wouldn't you want to use CCC to restore the image as well? The single time I did this, I just swapped source-destination and it worked a treat. CCC should be better able to handle it's own data…
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Before trying a data recovery company, you can try:
putting the disk in another enclosure, in case the problem is in the SATA/USB bridge
starting the Mac on another OS, such as a Linux Live DVD, which comes with other disk utilities, including HFS+ read/write.
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Since it's now clear you have an external drive, I don't know how much of this applies, but I'll leave it in case it helps someone in that situation.
I typically boot the mac into Target Disk Mode and use another Mac to enter the password for any account on the Filevault Mac to mount the encrypted core storage drive under OS X. If the Mac was set up with a ...
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Some things I would be worried about:
While it's true that the MacBook Air does not have a spinning hard drive or a cd drive, it does have moving parts, namely, the fans. These should be pretty stable, but it does show that there are loose things inside the compute that could become broken due to excessive shaking.
If the computer is running, then ...
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It's as safe as shaking an iPad or an iPhone. Just don't drop it!
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Do you have Fusion 3 or 4 running with the Adobe Photoshop plugin active? I have been reading that the plugin does embed font sense metadata into the document, causing the error. If you do, you might want to try to turn off the plugin and see if you are still getting the error.
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Yeah, it's new and it's call BitTorrent Sync, just came out of Alpha. it uses a 32 character code you create to create folder based sharepoints...on any computer on your network, without futzing with Preferences. Bittorent does all the work, and you essentially can create your own cloud at will, with any internal or external hdd's.
Good luck.
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