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There's no difference besides the storage capacity.
As the iPhone does not have an option to extend the memory after purchase, you have to choose the right amount of storage right from the beginning.
You can always manage how much space you use by manually choosing which data to sync (music, photos, movies, apps).
Generally more available space gives you ...
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It's the folder where iTunes saves the backUps of your iDevice. And it takes so much space because each time you sync a device, previous backUps are not deleted.
Deleting the folder will, then, mean losing those backUps. Doing this regularly is advised for saving HD space. Just make sure to make a new backUp afterwards, and that you won't need those ...
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Other than cost (for the initial purchase and potentially to repair or replace it) and size, there is no measurable difference in performance, battery life or other function between any of the iPhone 5 models for sale (and certainly within the same carrier in case one LTE model uses slightly more power than another). The same goes for each iPhone (and iPad ...
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The exact answer will vary by device, because there are separate iOS builds for each one. The easiest way to figure this out is to examine an iOS 6 install image (a .ipsw file).
The iPad 3 (Wi-Fi only) is the iOS device that is most similar to a Microsoft Surface, although the two are still very different. The iOS 6.0 (build 10A403) install image weighs in ...
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The difference is 16GB of storage.
How big is your iTunes library? Do you want to carry movies and TV shows on your phone in case you happen to want to watch them while waiting somewhere? How big are the last 1000 photos you've taken in your iPhoto library? Do you like to shoot video with your phone?
Then, what about apps? Some apps are much larger than ...
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First question: yes, iCloud backs up your photo as it is. If you delete media from your photos library it will be deleted from iCloud. (I might add that videos are also stored in the cloud - and consequently take up the most room).
Second question: It is possible you can use the Scanner and Camera wizard to import photos from your iPhone. Here is are two ...
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Yes.
You need the discontinued "iPod" camera connector. (not to be confused with the iOS iPad camera connector)
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38187
They are for sale on Amazon (and of course at local thrift shops and electronics shops worldwide).
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Camera-Connector-iPod-White/dp/B000KIRGF4
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A few thoughts come to mind.
Firstly, this is all dependent on what sort of software solution you're using to store your photos. If it's just files in folders, that makes things simpler, and is pretty platform agnostic. But if you're using (or want to use) some sort of organization software, then that obviously complicates things, both in terms of platforms ...
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I own a botique short-run book publishing company. For all intents, the design and printing operations are a one-man operation. Time spent waiting for a spinning beach ball is wasted and unprofitable time. Funds are tight for getting the latest equipment, but I try to incorporate the technology that provides the best bang for the buck. I recreationally ...
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For installation of the OS, apps et cetera
Give one disk to JHFS+.
If you're limited to two disks and one is hard, use the hard disk.
For integrity of user data
Give at least one other disk to ZFS.
Why not HFS Plus?
A little HFS test – a command-line presentation by @jolly of DIY Fusion Drive fame – demonstrates HFS Plus failure in one situation.
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Under Mountain Lion it is possible to replicate the Apple Fusion drive with standard SSDs and HDDs under Mountain Lion. This automates the splitting of sata across the SSD and hard disk.
This keeps commonly used files an SSD and less used data on a hard disk. When you read or write to a file the OS will migrate the blocks being used to the SSD so subsequent ...
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You've probably got fragmentation of your free space. For some reason, Disk Utility can't figure this out on its own; it just fails.
I found a stunningly simple way to resolve this: create a new disk image with Disk Utility that's a little bit smaller than the remaining space on your drive.
It took several minutes on my SSD, presumably while OS X moved ...
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I assume that you are referring to ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/Backup. This is the location where backups of iOS devices created by iTunes reside. Each sub-folder represents a different iOS device. If you delete this folder you will be unable to restore your iOS devices to their backed up state from iTunes. if you wish to see a list of ...
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To keep track of your mobile data usage you could reset the "Statistics" on the phone on the first day of your billing cycle. To do this go to Settings → General → Usage → Cellular Usage and go to the bottom of the page. There you will see the amount of Cellular Network Data sent and received.
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The answer by Zo219 is nice for having two copies, but my solution is to link the folders where Mail wants to store the files to the external drive and not have two copies.
Here are the folders you'll need to have located off the main drive:
~/Library/Mail
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/
Since the volumes are separate, you can't hard ...
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I have seen the same thing happen to my hard drive since enrolling in iTunes Match. Fortunately there are a couple of options.
One option is to select any songs you'd like to down-convert, right-click (or ctrl-click) the selection, and choose "Create xxx Version". This will re-encode the tracks based on the encoding options you have set within iTunes ...
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Is this a MacBook? I ran into something similar and it turned out to be the local Time Machine snapshots. This was a new feature in OS X 10.7 Lion. Some programs show that space as used and some don't. Finder doesn't show that space as used but Disk Utility does.
Make sure to run WhatSize in "As Admin" mode to get an accurate representation of your disk ...
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Do you have Time Machine enabled? This could be a result of the Time Machine snapshots...
Have you looked at this thread here: How to fix Disk Utility, About This Mac, and Finder that disagree on hard drive space usage?
To disable Time Machine Snapshots :
Open the Terminal from Applications/Utilities
Enter : sudo tmutil disablelocal
Enter your password ...
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A quick survey of friends a while back has shown that you can expect the following amounts of usable space on an iPhone 5 with iOS 6:
13.70 GB of space on the 16 GB model
28.00 GB of space on the 32 GB model
57.20 GB of space on the 64 GB model
The builds for iPad and iPod touch are different than each iPhone build, but the space taken by iOS when ...
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First let's clarify one thing: RAID is not the same as backup. Building a RAID array out of several (presumably USB) external drives would have many drawbacks. See this question I asked a while back for the explanation. I suspect what you really want is passive and seamless disk/data backup in which case OS X's built-in Time Machine works great. And if you ...
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Sadly there is no one common format that works well for both Time Machine and any flavor of Windows.
Unless you are interested in buying filesystem support software to make Windows on a PC work with HFS+ or make OS X on a Mac work with NTFS, the best solution is to partition the drive into two sections.
I would select the GPT volume format (GUID Partition ...
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Keeping copies of your mail or anything else on your computer on an external hard drive is trivial, and why Apple has decided to make things difficult, to hide what was once common knowledge is, ironically, part of their effort to make things easy.
If the User Library is set to invisible, then Apple figures beginners can't go to ~/Library/Mail/ and delete ...
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I've used Macs since y'all were toddlers, always keep everything upgraded, and still like things simple. Maybe any of this will help:
People confuse TimeMachine, which is an incremental backup of changed files (once it's got the initial set) and is not bootable ... with a BackUp Disk, which can boot the computer and perhaps even repair it, with Disk Utility ...
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Yes, install server on it and you can use networked time machine backups direct to it's own internal storage
Yep, this would be ideal
Rather than looking at a disk, and then an external caddy, just get one that's all in one. Speeds are not really an issue if you use USB, it's far slower than the drive will be. All drives are compatible, some may merely ...
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The iOS 6 .ipsw file, used to restore it, is around 1GB, depending of the device. When installing through the iPhone itself, though, it asks for at least 2 GB of space.
It's fair to presume, then, that the required space is between 1 and 2 GB.
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Everything that is not either a) texting or b) phone calls uses data. (That is to say, everything that sends or receives something.) Streaming music uses a lot of data (streaming video uses even more). Photos only count when you send them or receive them.
Also, note that the phone will use a WiFi network if available instead of the cell network, so that ...
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Other is a catch-all by taking the drive's max capacity and subtracting the sum of all other counted file sizes. So, if your drive has corruption where many blocks are unavailable or lost, you will see large other "allocations".
If the other space remains the same after running disk utility to verify and/or repair the volume then you can assume it's really ...
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You can do this by making a symlink (using Terminal, not an alias in the Fnder) to the directory on the NAS as you describe, but I'd caution against it unless your laptop is alway connected to your network. You could (and most likely will) get some unpredictable and possibly data corrupting behaviour if the Mail app tries to access data only to find the ...
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Short answer: 16GB should be fine for photos.
Long Answer: Your question is hard to answer with any accuracy as photos come in a variety of sizes depending on resolution, subject matter etc. For example, a photo taken on your 3GS iphone will be smaller than one taken on your 4GS iphone, which will also be smaller than one taken on your nikon DSLR digital ...
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It depends on how big each of the photo files are. If they are all exactly the same, you can get a rough estimate by dividing the hard drive size by the file size.
If each photo is 120kb in size, and the operating system on the iPad is 3.4 gb, you can use the formula:
(16-3.4)gb/120kb = 105,000 photos
(32-3.4)gb/120kb = 238,333 photos.
Or more ...
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