How to identify which drive is the current boot drive?

I have a PowerBook running Leopard, and I prefer to boot from the external drive. It's bigger and has my working files. The current internal drive is for future use, for when I have a replacement machine. I know how to specify the boot drive in Preferences, but sometimes the machine reboots without me. I don't know how to verify which drive I'm booted from. I changed the desktop background, so that once I'm logged in I can tell, but surely there is a more direct way to determine this. Isn't there?

A simple option would be to select About this Mac from the Apple menu.

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How to identify which record(s) the user hasbeen checked

i have a internal table in which first field is represented as check box in the output .
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loop at g_it_final into g_wa_final.
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now the user will select some records from the output checking the check box
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how to identify which record(s) the user hasbeen checked(selected) ?
so that i can disply only the selected records in the secondary list.

Hi,
You will have to use the 'READ LINE' command within a loop to retrieve the data back into your program.
You may want to use the HIDE command to ease the retrieval of the checkbox value.
Check out the online help for both of these.
Darren

HT4889 Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive?

Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive? Should I use Carbon Copy or does apple have a better untility to do this?
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Have used disc utility to repair the disc and permissions several times and that works. The next time I boot up, it works fine and I get the apple logo, but then the second time I boot up, it's back to the blank screen again and it only boots after the second try. I have tried this repair three different times now always with the same result. Works right the first try (after the repair) then from the second time on it doesn't work. I just get the white screen until I reboot a second time.
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If you have a time machine back up of your current drive you can do this
Shut down your computer, install the new drive. While the computer is off plug in the external hard drive that you have your time machine back up on. Hold Option key while the computer turnes on, let go of the option key once you get a grey screen. Shortly after you'll see a list of bootable drives, select the one that has your time machine back up on it and boot into that drive.
From there go into disk utility, format your new drive too, osx extended journaled ( I think, double check that, its been awhile since ive had to do this), hit format
Exit disk utility and then you can use time machine to copy all your exisit data to the new hhd and then your pretty much done.
There is also a program called Carbon Cloner that will do esentially the same thing however I've never uesed it.

How to identify which switch in the panel called the function?

here i have some 192 switches and 192 leds corresponding to each switch,
if a switch is on(say 10th) correspondingly led(10th) should glow.
i want to use the same function for all switche led pairs.
all i could do was to check for the on switch in a for loop and then set the particular led on, but i find it very inefficient way of doing it.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Looping through controls is indeed a inefficient way of doing what you want!
With such a great number of controls, you could assign an appropriate callbackData to each of them when loading the panel. Next you could create an array of control IDs with all the LEDs and operate in the switch callback to turn on and off the corresponding led. A small example will be more clear:
At panel load:
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int CVICALLBACK switchOnOff (int panel, int control, int event,
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int sts;
if (event != EVENT_COMMIT) return 0;
// Get the status of the switch
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return 0;
For this solution to work, leds[] array must be global so that it is available to the control callback.
An additional improvement could be to modify the panel loading so that swithces and leds are created programmatically. You could have a single switch/led pair set in the UIR editor and next have a loop that duplicate the controls, sets callbackData and loads the array of led ids.
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How to identify which applicarion is using the DVD burner?

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I think you'll find that the application is Final Cut Pro... the message is bug. I get a similar message when disconnecting external drives after using them with FCP (even when the project is no longer loaded.)
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How do you import photos from a library on an external drive to the current library running in iPhoto?

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How can i backup my iPod Touch 4g and save my apps onto a new hard drive without having to save onto the current hard drive first?

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How do you add the name of a song to a downloaded track not reccognized in the iTunes library. I copy songs from my own CDs and want to properly identify them instead of the current "Track 02". Thanks

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How to identify Which function modules are used in the planning area?

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pooja

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How to identify which key figure will the numeric pointer for deltas?

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Use
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