Before I updated today to Lion OS, my multiple monitors worked fine. Now my macbook will not detect them. Is there a solution for this?
I've been running multiple monitors for over a year on my Macbook. Updated today to Lion OSx and well Steve, it didn't just work. My macbook will not detect my three external monitors, and after scouring the last hour on Google of how to remedy this and trying the basic suggestions of restarting, unplugging, replugging, to no avail. Anyone else have a similar problem since they've upgraded to Lion OSx?
karl219 wrote:
1-Time machine seems to be coming up often in the discussions.If my backup is on my external hard drive, why would space be taken up on my macbook hard drive?
Read the first extract for the definition of backup snapshots and how they are handled by the OS.
2-Shoud I delete older backups? If for example, all I need from Time Machine is the latest backup done today, can I get rid of the 2+ yeras of backups, or do they not take up that much space?
No. Time Machine should be on a separate HDD and will take care of deleting backups when necessary on that drive.
3-Back to the issue, considering I don't have access to a an apple store for the next few months, what is my best plan of action?
I would consider installing a larger internal HDD. Capacities to 1 TB are now available.
4-I am considering buying a new macbook 15inch, and get more space, however, I'm scared that the same problem will happen again. Is this common on all macs? Will using Time Machine to "Restore" my backups bring along the issues as well?
All Macs using Time Machine will experience the same conditions. The problem is that many users do not under stand what 'Other' is and that leads to confusion. There are many essential OS files in that category that should not be touched as well as some user files. The issue is not to reduce 'Other' as such, but reduce the total amount of data on the HDD if space is becoming a premium.
Please read these two extracts:
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Ciao.
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