Hard drive help running out of time!!!

hello, i have a ibook G4 and im all out of space on its tiny little hard drive. I went ahead and get a harddrive to ugrade it with which im familiar with doing on windows. Bu ton mac i dont know what program i can use to make an exact duplicate of whast on my original drive to my new drive. Im use to using ACRONIS true image to copy hard drive to hard drive. Will that program do the same for mac? if not what will.. please help i have to do this today

You can user SuperDuper:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
You can also use Carbon Copy Cloner:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
I prefer SuperDuper.

Similar Messages

Hard drive is running out of space!! HELP!!

I just purchased a new macbook pro with retina 4 days ago. I've noticed that the hard drive is almost out of space already. I removed all pics and music to external drive and still have "backups and other" that are taking up 75% of HD. How do I clean up these files? Thanks!!

Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

TM: When external hard drive space runs out, can I add another drive?

I am using an external hard drive 1TB to back-up my new iMac with TM. When the external drive space runs out, do I have to buy another drive with much more space (e.g. 2-3TB) and start over, or can I just add a second external hard drive 1TB (will TM recognize the second one as an addition)?
Thanks for any help.

First off you should know that when Time Machine runs out of space on an external drive, it deletes the oldest backup you have. So if you are running out of space you probably don't need to worry as Time Machine will handle it. Just make sure the Time Machine backup drive has a higher capacity than the amount of data you have on your internal drive and you'll be fine. However, if you'd like to keep a lot of backups over a period of time you may want to consider getting a whole new drive. The only way you can add more drives to back up to is by using RAID 0 which I wouldn't recommend unless you have to due to the fact that you'd be more likely to lose data. The easiest option would be to buy a 2TB drive and use it with Time Machine.

NEED Help Running Out Of Time+++Q:Opening a PSD file in Illustrator Question???

Hello everyone!!! Hope everyone is staying dry and warm!!!
I have some artwork im doing for screen printing and a friend has been sending me some artwork to work on. The problem we are having is some of the artwork will open in Illustrator or CorelX4 and stay editable but then he will send me some that when I open in Illustrator it gives me this message and then will not be editable:
"""This document has greater than 8-bit depth it will be imported as an 8-bit flat composite""""
Can anyone tell us why this is happening??? I have researched this with no answers so far??? He is using PSD2 and Im usin PSD4 and Illustrator4
Please help!!!!! Running out of time for this artwork to be completed.
Thanks
Bobby

Photoshop is capable of saving files that are 16 or 32 bit depth. This has to do with the amount of colors that are accessable. The message you are seeing is telling you that it will convert the file back to 8 bit color space for you. This bit depth is talking about per channel, not over all. So a cmyk file would have 8 bits for cyan, 8 for megenta, 8 for yellow and 8 for black. Having a higher amount of bits per channel, photoshop is then capable of doing things like smoother gradients, retreiving data from raw images to produce an image that shows more highlights and shadows without the clipping and so forth.
Most basic monitors are only 8 bit, same goes for most printers. So unless you need to access the extra color depth, you should be fine in 8 bit. If you don't want to see this message, just tell your friend to send the images at 8 bit.

Hard drive space running out of space dangerously fast ...

I'm freakin' out! I am watching the available space on my hard drive decrease by half a gig at a time...! And I'm not doing anything!!! What's happening! Please help! I can't run out of space because I need it for a keynote presentation and it's getting dangeroulsy too low to even operate keynote without crashing...!
Also, I verified my hard drive and this is what I got:
I tried to repair it but in vain... I have the Snow Leopard dongle for my MacBook Air but I've upgraded to Lion... What should I do?
Thank you in advance for the help!

did you do as suggested and repair the disc?

Does a RAIDed set of hard drives help project load/save time?

My editor has a project way above the '100 mb' recommended limit. Right now around 230 MB i believe. But I've also heard of people who have **3-4 GB** project files!! How on earth do they efficiently work in it?
My editor's project file takes a long time to load, save, autosave, and her FCP crashes occasionally, always during saving/autosaving. She has FCP installed on one hard drive, her project files located on a seperate hard drive. Not sure of speeds, but both have at least ~40% free space.
If she had like a RAID array, the one where you take 2 drives to make one big one with a theoretical 'double' write/read time, and she put her project file on that, would that speed things up? If she had 2 sets of that RAID configuration (what is it?), put her applications (inc. FCP) on one array, her project files on another, would that speed things up even more?
Also, we have all our media on a SAN connected to the editors through gigabit ethernet. Could this be slowing things down in anyway?

RAIDs get you faster read/write times with your MEDIA. They will not help with your project issues. Do what Randy suggested. Multiple project files are the key.
Raided drives get you more RT effects with media, and allow you to work with uncompressed formats. Nothing to help out slow projects.
RAM, Processor...and smaller project files.
Shane

Help - running out of time (Simulator vs. Burn)

Quick background: running DVDSP 2.0 on 10.3.9, upgraded to 10.4.5 and DVDSP 2.0 (still). I did a clean install of DVDSP 2.0 back on 10.3.9, but problem still exists.
Basically, I am using a Layered menu, everything works correctly inside DVDSP's Simulator but once a DVD or a DVD Image file (that is played in Apple DVD Player) is created, none and I mean NONE, of the links or connections work. I have deleted the PAR folder, deleted all of the connections and recreated them and I have even created a completely new project from scratch. But the same problem persists, which is that none of the links work outside of DVDSP. The Menu show correctly, I can select the Button properly, but the Button will not play the linked video.
I have been making reels for our company for 8 months, I have never run into this problem. Existing projects, that use to work, done anymore. They end up with the same problem.
Could there be a setting that I have missed, that was set back to the default during the upgrade? That could explain why a new install back on 10.3.9 would be experiencing the same problem and why old projects (that use to work) don't anymore. BUT WHAT COULD IT BE? I AM AT A LOSS AND PEOPLE KEEP ASKING ME WHEN WILL IT BE FINISHED.
HELP PLEASE.
Thanks
Kalagan

Without knowing a bit more about how you have set the layers up for your menu it is a bit hard to tell... but one thing to try is to make a standard menu and simply add a button to it (i.e. click on add menu then drag out a rectangle on the editor) add some text and set up a target for the button to go to. If this button works then there is not too much wrong with the linking within DVDSPs abstraction layer... the problem will be in the way you have constructed your menu.

Help running out of time, can't move rented movie

I rented a movie, on my older mac. Apparently its too old to play it as it won't play smoothly.
I tried to move it to my imac via my network, now it says it is not authorized on this computer.
I searched and searched and could not find an answer to this.
thanks!
I have almost given up!

I'm not sure it works that way. You can transfer it to your Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone, but I do not believe you can move a rental to a different computer for viewing. At least not through iTunes.

Hard drive constantly running and ruining battery life

Hello,
I recently got an x200s from a legit ebay lenovo seller that came with an upgraded 500gb 7200rpm hard drive.
The problem is that the hard drive is running at All times. I can tell from the sound as well as slight vibration. Even with the lowest power settings, and just letting it idle, it runs. I tried playing with the power manager, and having the hard drive stop activity after 30 seconds of inactivity, it keeps running. I turned off indexing on the c as well as the lenovo back up drive, its still running. The hard drive activity light is only flickering, and the processes seem totally normal. What is up?
I'd say this also has to be the reason i'm only getting like 2 hours with the 4 cell and very low power settings, which is unacceptable.
Any thoughts?
Thanks guys

Nah...if you choose a less-than-sensible setting in BIOS, an arm holding a hammer will come out of the LCD and smack you...that's a part of ThinkVantage that only a few people know about...
How many processes do you have running on a freshly booted machine?
Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
Collecting dust: T60
Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
Non-ThinkPads: Panasonic CF-31 & CF-52, HP 8760W
Starting Thursday, 08/14/2014 I'll be away from the forums until further notice. Please do NOT send private messages since I won't be able to read them. Thank you.

Please help with cancellation! running out of time

i really really need to cancel my purchase of illustrator, my first month is about to be over and i am running out of time! i can't seem to be able to do it according to the proper steps, because it does not appear in my plans or downloaded items. all that appears is a free creative cloud plan which does not have the option of cancellation. according to my bank, adobe has charged me for the first month of the package, so i don't know why it does not appear in my packages. please help as soon as possible. is there no way to contact adobe other than these forums?

Jessie,
You may open a chat here,
Creative Cloud support (all Creative Cloud customer service issues, chat open between 5AM and 7PM PST/PDT on workdays)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service-ccm.html
or use Adobe phone Support here,
http://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/adobe-connect-phone-numbers.html
It is 1:30 PM over there now (PST).

I am having sporadic issues after new hard drive install and recovery using Time Machine. The same sluggish response, start up screen pixelating...If I reinstall Lion will it wipe out other applications? My HD was formatted and partitioned correctly, I ha

I am having sporadic issues after new hard drive install and recovery using Time Machine. The same sluggish response, start up screen pixelating...If I reinstall Lion will it wipe out other applications? My HD was formatted and partitioned correctly, I have a late 2009 iMac.

Use the trackpad to scroll, thats what it was designed for. The scroll bars automatically disappear when not being used and will appear if you scroll up or down using the trackpad.
This is a user-to-user forum and most people will post on here if they have problems. You very rarely get people posting to say there update went smooth. The fact is the vast majority of Mountain Lion users will not be experiencing any major problems with the OS, or maybe with apps which are not compatible, but thats hardly Apple's fault if developers don't update their apps.

I have rented a movie on iTunes and it says I'm running out of time to watch but it is not downloading the movie can someone help

I have rented a movie on iTunes and it says I'm running out of time to watch but it is not downloading the movie can someone help

It does take some time for a movie to download, could it still be downloading ? Also the rental tab is only there when you have rented a movie. If all else fails talk to iTunes support, they have helped me in the past.

I just replaced my hard drive and restored everything from Time machine. However, my itunes is empty. No music, movies etc are there. Please help thanks

I just replaced my hard drive and restored everything from Time machine. However, my itunes is empty. No music, movies etc are there. Please help thanks

Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
Windows images, but you get the point. Depending on the age of your library the library file might not include the .itl extention. Make it match the file you are replacing.
See MusicFolder Files Not Added and Super Remove Dead Tracks for tools to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
tt2

Hard drive packed up, but had Time Machine backup. I installed new sad and upgraded to Mountain Lion., but I can't find iPhoto library and photos or iTunes songs? Is there an answer to this? Graham

Hard drive packed up, but had Time Machine backup. I installed new ssd and upgraded to Mountain Lion, but I can't find iPhoto library and photos or iTunes songs? Is there an answer to this? A backup run did not install either photos or songs. Graham

Thanks so much but none of that helped. It was driving me crazy because it would back up another external drive. I just changed the name of the drive from iPhoto/iTunes Library to Media Libraries and IT WORKED!! I guess for some reason it didn't like the drive being called iPhoto or iTunes ???? I don't understand but I have tried so many solutions and exchanging things out but the name change did it????!!!
Thank you for your help and replying to this. Guess I made my own issue!

Working in adobe illustrator - computer crashed - will not soft boot or reset PRAM - should i reinstall from CD snow leopard 10.6.3? I have an extra hard drive in my MAC with time machine on it set to do auto back ups. How do i recover ?

working in adobe illustrator - computer crashed - will not soft boot or reset PRAM - should i reinstall from CD snow leopard 10.6.3? I have an extra hard drive in my MAC with time machine on it set to do auto back ups. How do i recover ?

Well first you have to figure out what is wrong with the machine and solve that problem first.
Your post is very vague on what occured, and there are many types of "crashes" it really depends upon what see on the screen and what the hardware does, we can't see it to tell you, so you have to tell us.
I suggest you run through these user tips and provide more information about your hardware.
Disconnect the TimeMachine drive for now
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Help us to help you on these forums
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
If this is going way over your head, there are local PC/Mac techs that will assist you for a fee, Apple only does hardware repairs and is advised to use them if you discover it is, especially if under warranty/AppleCare.
Hard drive and RAM upgrades can be handled yourself or by a outside tech in many older models of Mac, but don't expect Apple to cover the new parts.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's

Hard drive help running out of time!!!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for