Help restoring hard drive storage!!!

Is there ne way i can clear up my hard drive because i only have like 7 Ggs left. I want to delete all my pictures in IPHOTO (they're already backed up) but when i did that it didnt restore any storage back? please help!!

Hi T-MuNeY: Have you emptied the trash? There is a Trash basket in iPhoto as well as the main one in the Dock.
Good Luck
Stedman

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I thought the entire point of iCloud was to use cloud storage and not offline storage; unless you download it from the cloud to your hard drive. Why am I losing hard drive space?
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If you look on the right side there pops up similar questions.. which works better than search btw..
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The Samsung.. may not be able to see the Time Capsule hard disk..
because it does not contain any files it can read.
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I can see it in the disk utility, but not in the install window. This is the part that I don't understand.
I don't understand it either. I think there may be issues involved in installing Lion on a drive with a Boot Camp partition. That's why I think you should start over with a blank drive. Restore everything except Boot Camp to the state it was in before you installed Lion. Go through the whole installation process again, and when everything is working, run Boot Camp in Lion if you wish.
By the way, for future reference, you made mistakes that may have made matters worse.
When an application hangs, force-quit it. Don't do a forced reboot except as a last resort.
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Hi @TonyBlair1 ,
Thank you for your inquiry, I will do my best to assist you!
Please remember when posting to include your exact model of G7 you have.
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I grasp that you have 4, G7 notebooks running Windows 7. Computer A had a overheating issue and you removed the hard drive and swapped it with computer B.
Neither computer would boot properly.
So you ran a backup from A which is in computer B from safe mode.
You took unit A in and had it repaired.
You replaced drive A into computer A and drive B back in computer B.
B worked normally.
Now Drive A Computer A
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First I would like to clarify, did you do a Microsoft backup and restore or did you do a HP recovery and backup?
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Is your B&W G3 a rev. 1 or rev. 2 model? This article can help you determine that (scroll down to section 3, "Revised IDE Controller") -
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/newfeatures.html
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It is the built-in IDE (ATA) controller that governs limits, not how big one drive is vs. the other.
Provided the machine is a rev. 2 model, the built-in controller has a limit of being able to use a drive no larger than 128GB (formatted) in size. This limit applies to each of the two possible drives individually, not collectively. Larger drives can be used, such as a 160GB drive, but only the first 128GB will be available. Since it is a drive size limit and not a volume size limit, partitioning will not get around it. And, since it is a limitation of the controller and hence is a hardware limit, the limitation is OS independent.
There are solutions in order to use larger drives.
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Whatever photos/videos that were in the Camera Roll with the last backup should be restored.
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Okay i am not the biggest geek on the planet but I do know my stuff but this is a area that i look for more knowledge on this. So if i can get some sound advice in this area. i know there are many photographers out there like me pushing hundreds of images that could use the same advice. Now let's leave the money end out , folks sometimes think more with there wallet than what works best not that I am opposed to saving money but after spending over 7 k already on this system it becomes a moot point. LOL
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Ok your question is if you should RAID O the two 150GB Raptors or not.
I think it was wise for you to get a couple of them for a boot drive with "Time Machine" coming in the next version of Mac OS X. The second drive would make a excellent bootable backup and eliminating downtime if a boot drive dies on you one morning.
In fact any boot drive cloning software that is Mac Intel ready now would do you good.
Now Barefeats has run some tests, and I can pretty much back up what they say from my own experience.
Mac OS X and apps can be helped only so much by a faster boot drive, and a single 10,000 RPM Raptor is enough, RAID O a pair is overkill.
If you install everything on the boot Raptor and keep your space hogging files (except iTunes) in new folders on another drive, even a 7,200 RPM 500GB, the two drives combined is faster as there is nearly no wait. Both drives can be accessed at the same time. Keeping the boot drive slim keeps the stylus (arm) moving as little as possible to get all the small reads/writes Mac OS X needs.
I RAID O-ed my boot drives because 74GB was the largest they had at the time, so combining them gave me speed and larger storage. I hardly use the speed, it only comes in handy if by rare chance I duplicate a 20GB folder, then I can do it in half the time of a 7,200 RPM drive.
Some of the drawbacks of a RAID O set, especially as a boot drive is that I have to auto-clone the whole set to a external drive regularly (I actually do a couple). Since the data path is separated with a RAID O, any drive failure results in total data loss.
So if you RAID O those 150GB Raptors, your going to have to clone 300GB to a external drive (or another internal) regularly, like once a week. This will take considerable time and you can't use the machine while the cloning process is going on. Sure auto-cloning software like DeJaVu can be used at night/weekends, but why bother cloning more than you have to for no big speed increase?
However if your messing with huge Photoshop files that spill over your CS2 3GB RAM limit (you need to have a "scratch" thats as fast as RAM), duplicating large files and other heavy duty drive work, then a boot RAID O will come in handy. Just remember your initial performance of 185 MB p/s will drop about 20-25% when those drives are 3/4 filled. Still 140 MB p/s is extremely good and a no worry situation.
What is worrysome is anything below 80MB p/s (I'm talking uncached 4K write speeds under X-Bench) with a new boot drive and then as time elaspes that boot drive gets filled up and loses half or more of it's inital speed. 30 MB p/s is really slow. Beachball H&LL.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard33b.html
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