Cloning hard drive with multiple users.

I'm trying to clone my hard drive using disk utility ready to upgrade to Snow Leopard and increase memory at the same time. I've formatted the new drive selecting one GUID Partition and Mac Extended Journalled format. The cloning keeps failing at up to 18GB out of 111GB total. I logged in as administrator and saw that many files in other users' accounts are marked with a little red - sign so I can't access them. Is this the cause of the failure? I have tried selecting file sharing and allowing administrator access to all users' files but it didn't get rid of the - signs. Any ideas, please?

Is disk utility really no good? Does that explain it?!
In that case I'd better get ccc or superduper later but right now i only have 500MB space left on my mac so I can't add anything more. I've had a look at what I've achieved so far and the copying stopped in the middle of an old xerox printer plugin in the library after 1 hour of slow but good work. I finished copying the library by drag and drop and it all looks the same as the original. That leaves previous systems, systems and users. Can I just keep going by dragging and dropping?
Right now my problem is that I tried to copy previous systems and after nearly 2 hours it is still 'preparing to copy' and i can't stop it, it doesn't respond.

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I have a spring 2008 24" iMac running Snow Leopard.
I am about to put a new 2TB hard drive in it and after I do that I want to do a clean install of Lion on it.
I do not want to upgrade my Snow Leopard install to Lion. I will keep it on my back up drive as a fallback incase of serious workflow incompatiblities with the new OS.
For my workflow I create and use multiple partitions (Mac OS, Windows and multiple HFS+ for data) on my hard drive and I have seen that Lion creates it's own hidden recovery partition as well for the recovery functionality.
My questions are:
1) Will I have issues running Lion on a partition on a hard drive with multiple partitions that have different file systems?
2) If I install Lion into one of these partitions will it create it's recovery partition within the space of the partition it is being installed into?
3) I will be creating a clean install by downloading Lion using the App Store and then burning an installer DVD using instructions I found elsewhere and then using that to do the install on the new drive. Is that the best route to take?
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I believe this article answers most of your questions.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
or possibly
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649
You will most likely run into the error message that "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk" if you have multiple partitions set up, especially if they were not set up using Bootcamp and/or have serveral different file systems.
You can confirm that the Recovery Partition will not be installed by checking Disk Utility for your current partition map scheme.
This is most definitely not the end of the world as it is quite easy to create an external Recovery disk.
1) No, you shouldn't have issues running Lion, but Recovery HD will not be created.
2) No, and in your case it doesn't sound like it will be installed on your internal drive at all.
3) Yes. If you begin with an empty partition, then install Lion that would be considered a clean install.
Hope that helps.
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Share a Hard Drive with Multiple Drives and Users

Background: I have an Airport Extreme (4th Generation) with two external hard drives connected via USB 2.0 and USB hub. I have Airport Utility setup to allow access to both drives via user accounts and passwords. From what I have gathered the way in which the user accounts and passwords work is the Airport Extreme makes two directories at to root level of the hard drive, 'Users' and 'Shared'. All files located in the 'Shared' directory are available to all user accounts setup in Airport Utility. Within the 'Users' directory are sub-directories named for each user account that is setup. All files located within the user directories are available to each respective user.
My trouble is the ability to see both the 'Shared' folders and the respective user folder when I authenticate with a user account. I am able to see the files in the 'Shared' directory on each of the two disks but it seems I am only able to see one of the user account directories and files.
Questions: My two questions are:
1) Is my understanding outlined above correct?
2) How might I be able to see the user directory on both disks as well as the 'Shared' directory on both disks.
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It didn't. After a night of testing, I found that I could get the router to at least let me create shares if I partitioned it as an MBR drive (GPT would not work at all), but it would not even rcognize a partition sized to 2TiB (tebibytes, 2048 GiB) or even one sized to 2TB (terabytes). The most it would recognize through my trial and error was about 1.5TiB, which I found odd.
This setup would have been too onerous, as it would have made about 746GiB completely unusable on the drive (outside the largest area referenced by an MBR partition table), and I would have had a main partition for files and one that would be invisible to the router (it only read the first partition, obviously).
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Is disk utility really no good? Does that explain it?!
In that case I'd better get ccc or superduper later but right now i only have 500MB space left on my mac so I can't add anything more. I've had a look at what I've achieved so far and the copying stopped in the middle of an old xerox printer plugin in the library after 1 hour of slow but good work. I finished copying the library by drag and drop and it all looks the same as the original. That leaves previous systems, systems and users. Can I just keep going by dragging and dropping?
Right now my problem is that I tried to copy previous systems and after nearly 2 hours it is still 'preparing to copy' and i can't stop it, it doesn't respond.

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I was successful in cloning my OSX 10.5 hard drive into my second hard drive. When my G4 AGP Mac boots up from second hard drive and I try to launch some apps, it displays this message," you cannot open the app because it is not supported on this architecture." In the apps folders, many of my apps has the minus red symbol, some don't. Why is this happening?
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Are you running the clone on the same machine it was sourced from?
The reason I ask is that it sounds like the apps don't include the PowerPC code needed to run on the G4. Many applications are shipped with both PowerPC and Intel-based code but it's possible to strip an app so that it only has the code base that's necessary (e.g. there's no need for an Intel machine to have the PowerPC code, and vice versa).
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The best thing to do would be to start over. Use Setup Assistant this time.
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If you have a USB thumb drive with the ML 10.8.3 installer, skip to step 6.
If you don't have a USB thumb drive with the ML 10.8.3 installer, download the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant and use a 1-4GB thumb drive to create a Recovery HD on the thumb drive you can boot from. Skip to step 6.
If you have neither of the above, after replacing the drive, restart into Internet Recovery by pressing/holding the Command+Option+R keys. Since you have a mid-2011, Internet Recovery will ONLY allow you to download and install Lion since that's what probably came preinstalled on your system.
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Go back to the OS X Utilities Menu and select Reinstall Mac OS X.
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If you were able to install OS X ML, skip to step 11.
If you installed Lion, you will have to login to the App Store and download/install your purchase of ML.
Run Software Updates to bring your OS X up to date.
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For your email, you can open Finder then press the Option key to see your user Library folder in the list. Select it to open it then enter Time Machine again and navigate to your last backup so that your user Library folder is opened in Time Machine. Copy your Mail folder to your Desktop so you can copy it back to your current user Library.
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Greetings,
I have been troubleshooting a problem sharing iTunes on a single computer with multiple users that cropped up a few weeks ago and have not had very good luck.
Several months ago I successfully set up my wife’s G4 Laptop (PowerPC processor) so that we could share iTunes on that computer. I had just gotten her an “My Book” external hard drive (Western Digital). The iTunes Library will go on this new unit because the internal drive was running out of room. I successfully set the privileges, moved the entire library onto a “Share” directory and everything worked fine.
In this way, when I got a new CD I could add it to iTunes (under my login, administrator privileges) and she could access it (under her login) to listen to while working on the computer or using her iPod. This arrangement went well for quite awhile.
About a month and a half ago, when I tried to launch iTunes from my login I received this message:
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I have an iMac at home with multiple user log ons. I'm about to get the Time Capsule and start using Time Machine (currently I use backup).
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I have a Mac computer connected to airport and use Time Machine for backups. This works well.
I have now purchased a second Mac and would like to include this second Mac so that I can move between Macs and work. There does not appear to be any mechanism to allow this.

After searching the web and the discussion here, here's my minimal impact solution for multiple Macs with multiple users in a household:
1) Set up Mac1 for myself only
2) Set up Mac2 for the wife and kid
3) Set up each Mac to backup to the Airport base station using Time Machine (this would create two separate backups on the Airport base station's drive, which from what I've read has its own problems)
4) On Mac1 setup "empty user accounts" for the wife and kid. These will not have any files in them - just an access mechanism. If they want to access their files, they can use Time Machine's "The Browse Other Backup Disks Option" to get their file from Mac2, work on it and then drop it in the Shared Folder. Next time they are on Mac2, remember to copy the updated/created file from the Shared Folder into their Mac2 user account. If possible, get Time Machine to not backup the "empty user accounts".
5) Do the same for me on Mac2.
Not the most elegant solution, but until Apple get off their backside and make this seamless, I can't think of anything else :-( .
P.S. iCloud is not a soluton since it costs hundreds of dollars a year, uses up intenet data allowance and is slow.

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I've read the numerous articles on transferring one's itunes library from a windows machine to a mac and I *think* I've got the details sorted (have itunes copy everything and then organize my library, then copy whole folder to external drive). I only have one itunes account but it my full library and itunes account is used across different windows user accounts.
My mac is setup with multiple user accounts and I'd like to have a single library and single itunes account (same apps, etc.,). I'm not quite sure how to migrate the library from windows and then set it up on the mac such that all mac user accounts are sharing the same library and itunes account. Any guidance?
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See these support documents:
How to share iTunes between multiple accounts on a single computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495

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I have a library of photos that is around 30 GB. All of the photos are already on an external drive, which is accessed through Xserve, and I have begun creating an iPhoto library on that same external drive. I have seen mixed opinions on whether or not an iPhoto library is able to be shared with multiple users (we have about 6 other Macs that we want to have full access to this). Unfortunately, none of us are on the same iPhoto version, so we have not been able to test this out yet, as they have been incompatible with each other so far. Is this something that is possible?

1 - sharing in a very limited sense is possiible - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198 - IF and only if all versions of iPhoto that will access it are the same version
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"F11 System Recovery" during boot does not work after Cloning hard drive.

Problem: “F11 System Recovery” during boot does not work after Cloning hard drive.
HP Envy m6-1125dx UEFI Notebook Computer with GPT hard drive.
Original Seagate Hard Disk GPT 700GB with Window 8.0_64 upgraded to Windows 8.1_64
Startup Menu (F11 System Menu works properly) only on original hard drive.
Following obtained from Disk Management & diskpart in Command Prompt.
GPT Disk <700GB>
Partition 1 WINRE NTFS Primary 235MB/400MB [Recovery]
Partition 2 EFI System FAT32 (LBA) Primary 108MB/260MB [System]
Partition 3 (NONE) Unformatted Primary 128MB/128MB [Reserve]
Partition 4 Main NTFS Primary 90GB/195GB [Primary “C”]
Partition 5 (NONE) NTFS Primary 372MB/450MB [Recovery]
Partition 6 Data NTFS Primary 7GB/475GB [Primary “E”]
Partition 7 NTFS Primary 26MB/350MB [Recovery]
Partition 8 Recovery NTFS Primary 24GB/26GB [Recovery “D”]
I have Cloned the original hard drive to a new HGST 1TB Hard Drive using four different methods (sector by sector):
Acronis True Image 2015
Acronis Backup for PC
AOMEI Backupper Professional
Macrium Reflect
Each time the cloning process completes successfully and has the same original partition arrangement. The computer works properly except when trying to use the “F11 System Menu” key during boot. It gives the following error message:
“Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed.
Error code: 0xc0000225
You need to use the recovery tools on your installation media. If you don’t have any installation media (like a disc or USB device), contact your system administrator or PC manufacturer. “
Any suggestions why the F11 System Recovery does not work during boot and how to fix the problem would be appreciated. I have does various disk checking and file checking on both the original and new hard drive with no errors.
Thank you in advanced.

Hi,
How did you clone the HDD ? One-for-one or different method ?
Regards.
BH
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