Does TM back up entire disk or just the Mac drive and not the Win drive?

If Boot Camp has partitioned your HD into a Mac and a Windows partition, does Time Machine back up both? What if you are running a virtual machine like VMFusion? When Boot Camp alone is running, the Windows files show up in Finder; so I would imagine they would be backed up. However, they do not show in Finder when VM Fusion is running. Does it matter (i.e., are they backed up or not)?

TimeMachine can backup everything on the Mac partition of your HD (it includes VMWare Fusion files)

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Does OS X throttle hard disk performance on the boot drive?

Does OS X throttle hard disk performance on the boot drive?
I was upgrading my boot drive on a Mac Pro (1,1) from the original Seagate 7200.9 250gb drive to a new Western Digital Caviar Black model 1tb drive.
What surprised me was that disk benchmarking tools (both AJ System Test and Xbench) showed that the new drive had a 30% decrease in speed tests (primarily writes) when actually serving as the boot drive. Put back in the original drive, and while not as extreme as the new drive, it also shows slower write speeds while serving as the boot drive vs serving as an extra internal drive.
In Xbench, the writes are both sequential and random unchached writes, AJ System test is less descriptive, but the write speeds on the new drive are painfully slow to watch.
Hardware-wise, I'd think this new WD
Is there something in the OS that impacts this? Is it something that can be tuned or tweaked? I feel like I'm not getting the most bang for my buck on the new drive (or the old for that matter).
That said, the new drive reads more than twice as fast as the old, and I can feel the difference significantly on boot up (login screen appears faster) and all my startup items load up much faster after logging in.

R C-R wrote:
Keep in mind that benchmarks don't really mean much unless test conditions are the same for each test. Benchmark each drive used as the boot drive & you get a relative comparison of their performance as a boot drive.
Which was really all I was after in the first place, and more as a curiosity than anything else, but it was just too unreal to see the drive lose half its read/write speed just because it was the boot drive. I'd expect, and accept, some relative drop in performance, but there seems like there was something wrong.
My problem gets stranger at this point. I was about to give up on using this drive, it was actually painfully slow to use and I'd gone back to my original drive. I thought I'd give it one more chance as part of some external drive enclosure stuff I was doing.
I put the drive back in Bay 1 on my Mac Pro, and it took forever to boot up, and when I ran benchmarks on it, they were only 5-10% of what I'd seen as a scratch drive, yes, that's 5% total. I actually got a score of 5.04 on Xbench. As a scratch drive, the thing gets in the 90's, and as boot drive it was getting 40s to 50s.
Anyways, after avoiding temptation to throw the thing against the wall, I tried putting it into an eSATA external dock, and booted from it. I am typing this from that boot session right now. The system booted up lightening fast, and benchmarks in Xbench are comparable to when it's a scratch drive, and AJA System Test just showed read/write speeds of 98 MB/s. This is what I would expect.
So now my issue appears to be that my Mac Pro, for some reason, is throttling, make that strangling, this particular hard drive when it is placed in Bay 1 and used as a boot drive. Some kind of hardware issue on the internal SATA bus? Incompatibility with this drive and Mac Pros? It's gonna take some more research or testing I guess.
Very frustrating. Reminiscent of my days with Beige Boxes running WindowsXP; certainly not the "it just works" experience I've grown to love since switching a few years ago.
I'll post back when I find out more.
Thanks again for the followup, and interestingly, I didn't get an email notification of an update to the thread. Odd.

I have purchased the Acrobat pro subscription for 1 year and have followed the steps to install it. But when i go to start it, It crashes and it does this every time! I have restarted my mac pro and also restarted in safe mode but it just doesn't work! PL

I have purchased the Acrobat pro subscription for 1 year and have followed the steps to install it. But when i go to start it, It crashes and it does this every time! I have restarted my mac pro and also restarted in safe mode but it just doesn't work! PLEASE HELP!!

Hi jim1287,po
Check for the latest updates. Installing latest updates should resolve this problem.
Also, try to ran disk repair using safe mode in Mac, for instructions please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204
Try enabling root user profile on mac and try to check. OS X Mavericks: Enable and disable the root user
Regards,
Ajlan Huda.

HT4914 If I subscribe to iTunes Match, can I download onto my new iPhone 6, just my music playlists and not my entire library?

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Thanks

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Hello, all.
In iTunes 11.0.2.26, an Albums search by track names returns albums as if they only have one track on them, but I still want to access the entire album. How can I have the search results show the entire album (with just the searched for name highlighted)? For instance, I'm wanting to play an album with a particular track on it or I'm searching for albums that include that track. iTunes incorrectly assumes that all I'm after is that one track and then incorrectly displays the album as if there is only one ttrack on it. This is a bonkers default setting. Can I change this?

Click the search magnifying glass and uncheck "Search entire library".
Type in the name of the track.
Click the album of interest to show tracks.
Select the track.
Press the X in the search box to clear the search.
Double click the track you want to start playing first.
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Thanks kumars ,
I have a specific drag and drop area on our website. This works fine for all earlier releases of Firefox after these security settings
"(1) Enter "about:config" in the URL field; (2) Right click and select New->Boolean; (3) Enter "signed.applets.codebase_principal_support" (without the quotes) as a new preference name; (4) Click OK and try loading the file again."
Bust these settings not work for me in Firefox 17.
Yes the drag and drop functionality is java script based and i am not using any script blocker addons.

HT1338 just bought mac air and i photo is not in applications, help?

Hi. just bought mac air and iphoto is not installed on it,when i try to download form the app store i have to give my crdie card, it is inuded wih the air. I have a macbok pro and it came nstallled with it. help please. I live a few hours away from the city so hate to make the trip back just for this. thanks

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Simply download the trial version of CS5 from this Adobe web site and input your serial number.
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I used a partitioned HDD for time machine, using a partition already containing other data files. I am now no longer able to view that partition in Finder. Disk Utility shows it in grey and "not mounted". Any suggestions of how to access the files?

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OS X version 10.9.2

Yes, sharing a TM disk is a bad idea, and disks are cheap enough so that you don't need to.
Now
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I am using iCloud to sync my contact and notes. It's pretty good right now since it can maintain a signle copy of each without duplicate entries.
However, the outstanding issue is that I want to remove the entire group "On My iPhone" under contact and notes as a lot of duplicates inside there.
How can I do that? Or de-duplicateing the entries there is also fine. Thanks.

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For Contacts
1. Make a source copy of contacts without any duplication in iCloud contact.
2. Remove any groups in Address Book in your Mac, so that the number of contacts in iCloud is equal to that in All Contacts in Address Book.
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5. Check "Contacts" under "Replace information on this iPhone" at the bottom.
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Your iOS device will be replaced with the "Contacts" from Address Book with "On My Mac" group, which contains zero contacts records.
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8. Click "Apply" button at the bottom of the iTunes.
9. After sync, you will get a "All on My iPhone" group on your iOS device with zero contacts, one All Contacts showing all contacts records, and the other is the "All iCloud" group containing the source copy from iCloud.
For Notes
1. Make sure you have a me.com account enabled in your iCloud for Mail & Notes sync
2. Using Mail, you can move and de-duplicate the notes and make a final copy in the Notes under iCloud. Clear all notes records under other sources. e.g. On My Mac, Gmail, etc.
3. Launch iTunes. Connect your iOS device. Go to Summary tab. Mark "Back up to iCloud" button
4. Go to Info tab, Click "Sync notes" under Other section
5. Check "Contacts" under "Replace information on this iPhone" at the bottom.
6. Click "Apply" button at the bottom of the iTunes.
Your iOS device will be replaced with the "notes" from Mac with "On My Mac" group, which contains zero notes records.
7. Uncheck "Sync notes" again. A dialog box appears, stating that iTunes will no longer sync notes to your iOS device. Click "Remove notes" button in the dialog box.
8. Click "Apply" button at the bottom of the iTunes.
9. After sync, you will no longer get any accounts in Notes. The only copy of Notes is from iCloud.

I recently repaired disk permissions on my mac HD and now my on-board speakers wont work, the icon is greyed out and only works when my headphones are plugged in.

I recently repaired disk permissions on my mac HD and now my on-board speakers wont work, the icon is greyed out and only works when my headphones are plugged in

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I want to delete a few contacts, apps, pics etc from my iphone, but when I delete and connect to my laptop they sync and come back again. How can I delete those items and not get them back when I connect my iphone to my laptop?

I want to delete a few contacts, apps, pics etc from my iphone, but when I delete and connect to my laptop they sync and come back again. How can I delete those items and not get them back when I connect my iphone to my laptop?
Also where exactly on the laptop is teh data stored.
Thank you!!

go to 'Edit' in the menu bar. Then choose 'Preferences'.
you'll see a pop-up and there's a tab called 'Devices' there. If you click that, you will be able to check a box that says 'prevent automatic syncing for iPods, iPads and iPhones' or something like that.
Hope this helps
NB: if you don't even see the menu bar that has options like 'File, Edit, View, etc', first click the black/white square button on the top left of your screen, and then click 'show menu bar'. It should pop right up.
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Just download lightroom cc and not open at all. Have desistarei and will install several times and the problem continues ... I need a solution .. thank you Operating System Windows 7 64bit

just download lightroom cc and not open at all. Have desistarei and will install several times and the problem continues ... I need a solution .. thank you Operating System Windows 7 64bit

Try the following user tip:
Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates

Does TM back up super duper running on same external drive?

I have a 4TB external drive partitioned in half. 2TB for TM and 2TB for Super Duper (I know that if the drive goes bad, both backups are gone). When TM runs, does it backup the Super Duper data from the other partition? In other words, does TM see the other half of the 4TB drive as something to back up? If it does, how can I exclude it from doing so?
If I can, I see Super Duper drive (half of the partition) in the TM preferences. Do I have to click the + to exclude it? thanks

When TM runs, does it backup the Super Duper data from the other partition?
No.

Why does my "backing up iphone" freeze when installing the new iOS5

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How do i fix this?

If using Windows iTunes, you may have to set your windows or anti-virus firewall to disabled or learn mode. I dad issues upgrading to iOS 5 with my iPad and this allowed the backup and synch functions to talk to apple. Good luck...

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