Advice for TechTool Pro users

I just felt compelled to throw this out there, as it doesn't seem to be common knowledge. I could be wrong, but this is pretty important imho so if people don't know it they are wasting massive amounts of space on their TM backup drive.
If you have TTP and have its Protection feature turned on, Time Machine is probably backing up that data every time it finds it changed. To point out the problem further, this data is 1.6GB on my internal HD. Protection was updating its info every four hours. In other words, TM was backing up 1.6 GB of essentially useless data up to several times a day, chewing up space on my backup drive. I added an exclusion to TM for the directory /.TechToolProItems, and all is well.
But I can only imagine the terabytes of space being collectively wasted by people who don't know about this (I think if they have a Windows image for use with Parallels/Fusion this same kind of issue is occurring with those gigabytes of data too). I know of at least one person who, not being all that computer savvy, does not know when TM is working and when it isn't and how much it is actually backing up and whether that number is sensible, so he wouldn't realize that his Time Capsule was wasting space and consequently cheating him out of having older backups on his system once it filled up (way too soon) with new backups.
Anyway, sorry if this is well-documented already, but I didn't see it in a few pages of search results so I'm throwing it out there as an FYI. It was driving me nuts until I tracked down the problem with tms.

Your signature indicates Leopard, not Snow Leopard.
Apple Menu > About this Mac ... look at the grayed-out "Version" under the Apple to confirm.
You have Core2Duo and 4 GB memory, so you *can* upgrade to Lion of you want.
You would start with: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A to upgrade to SL (base level, then let the "Combination Updater for SL" upgrade you to 10.6.8. Then you have the Apple Store and you can download Lion.
But verify 10.5.8 first.

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ADAM BURTON wrote:
> Hello, I have been looking through some of the
documentation on the Adobe web
> site and I have read several posts that have answered
some of my questions but
> I just want to be certain that Contribute is the product
that I need, or rather
> my client needs, for a web site that I am making. Thank
you very much for any
> advice that you can give, I apologise if my questions
are tedious and you have
> answered them before, by all means refer me to another
post that is relevant to
> my questions.
>
> Um... I am making a web site in Dreamweaver. Can I
upload the web site in the
> same way as I would if I was not using Contribute and
then allow someone else
> to come along and edit the page using this software? Or
put another way; can
> you use contribute to edit any page on the web providing
you have the
> appropriate access?
>
> I read in another post that the designer does not have
to own Contribute, only
> the client who will be editing the site does. What I
want to make sure about is
> that as the designer I will not have to do anything
different to what I would
> normally do and all of the Contribute use is at their
end.
>
> Thank you very much for your help. It is much
appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Adam.
>
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Memory: 64 GB DDR3 ECC
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 5870
Hard Drives (Internal): 2x 2TB Hitachi HD
Hard Drives (External): 12TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID drive array (connected via eSATA)
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Currently I own a 12 TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro RAID drive array (connected via eSATA) which I use to save projects, project files, and renders. So (unless I am mistaken) you're recommending that I continue to use this RAID array to save projects, project files, and renders.
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Then I would use my new SSD via SATA II for my system, apps, and OS (minus home folder media files, data, documents) and my SSD via PCI for scratch disks for Photoshop/AfterEffects.
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4. CCC clones system gets 'cloned' (minus the media folders) to the SSD that is installed via SATA II in empty internal drive bay inside Mac Pro.
5. Repair the SSD with DU after cloning and before using and booting from SSD.
(What is DU? How does it work? Not familiar with DU...?)
6. Reboot computer from system running on SSD.
7. Open Photoshop/AfterEffects (now running from SSD) and assign new scratch disk (the SSDs on PCIe SSD controller).
8. After 100% sure that system + apps that have been cloned is working via SSD, delete ONLY system and apps from old hard drive (but do not delete media files).
(Now that my system is on a separate SSD drive, when I do things like purchase new music from iTunes, will it get downloaded to the old location (my old hard drive with all my media)? In other words, are there steps I have to perform in order to relink my media folders now that they're on a separate drive?
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Dan

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