HT203176 My start-up disc is nearly full. I have another disc, an ex-time machine disc, that is available. How do I make it known to the system so it can be used?
I am getting a message that my 250 gb hard drive is nearly full. I have deleted many files without making much difference. I am unable to update any software now. I have a 500 GB drive that was used for Time Machine but is now available to use. I have cleared the data from it, now how do I make this drive available to the system?
You can't.
Move some more data to that other drive to free up space on the startup drive.
Don't forget to empty the Trash.
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Any help welcome
ThanksHello d:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Run repair disk from your software install DVD.
If you still get the message, call Applecare - you are well within the warranty period.
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The purpose of this exercise is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login. Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
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Press the power button.
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Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
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My start up disk is nearly full how do I fix this?
My start up disk is nearly full how do I fix this?
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
See Lion's Storage Display.
You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
See Where did my Disk Space go?.
See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
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My MacBook Pro hard drive is almost full and I wish to store my Aperture Library on an external drive, how do I do this and is the use of USB2 suitable or do I need to use a Firewire external hard drive?
You'll get better performance if you use a Firewire hard drive (especially if you buy a 7200 RPM drive). Firewire's IO speed is significantly faster than USB 2. USB 2 has a theoretical max speed of 480 Mbps except that it has extremely high over-head. The fastest speeds you can typically get are about 300 Mbps. Firewire, on the other hand, has very little overhead. The fastest speeds you can get are very nearly 800 Mbps. You will typically be constrained by the maximum read/write speed of the drive, not the speed of the I/O on the Firewire bus. Now if you had one of those nice shiny new Macs with the Thunderbolt I/O and a Thunderbolt drive (Light Peak) ... I think they alter space and time so that your data arrives before you know you want it.
Also... unless you want to buy a solid state drive (very expensive), try to keep your hard drives from becoming much more than about 60% full if you want great performance. A nearly "full" hard drive is, on average, only about half as fast as the same hard drive when nearly empty.
USB 2 will work perfectly fine... just not as fast.
Also... it's much safer to move the entire Aperture library than to "relocate masters". Your images must be managed. You can Aperture manage them, or you can manage them. But someone has to manage them. If you "relocate" them so that they are no longer stored inside the Aperture library then you'll need to work out a system of how you decide to organize things and it's critically important that you don't start moving files around or deleting things without Aperture's knowledge. If you do, you'll break the links to your masters and start having problems with missing masters. If you have Aperture manage the library then you don't need to worry about any of that stuff.... it's safer.
Do make backups (use the Aperture Vault or use some other backup program, but make sure you back up your work if you care about it.) There are only two kinds of hard drives in the world: (1) those that have failed and (2) those that are going to fail. There are no exceptions to this rule. Hard drives are cheap. Backup software is built into Aperture and into your Mac. -
My mac book was incredibly slow. When I went to Mac store, they asked me to reinstall the OS with CD and not with the time machine. I reinstalled the operating system. But when I opened the applications, all those started as fresh applications as usual. I have the backup of all other data in another hard disc. But unfortunately, I forgot to copy the photos before reinstallation. I have those photos in my time machine back up. But when I opened time machine, it started like a fresh (very new) time machine and it started backing up my present OS (the reinstalled one). I cannot open the previous time machine, which is in the same hard drive. I wish to open the previous time machine to get the photos which are backed up previuosly. When opened the time machine disc (manually by clicking the icon), i can see all the thigs which I had previously in my macbook. But unfortunately, i cannot access those through time machine! Can anybody help me please?
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" now that I've upgraded to and my old NAS won't support Mountain Lion. "
Do you have a few words missing in the original question ?.
When i upgraded from LION to MOUNTAIN LION it made NO difference at all to my MyBook Live !!!
reading the original post again and again, do you in fact have two My Book Live units, an old one and a new one ?
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Problems in making back up of time machine disc
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David ThomasI agree that the easiest option is to start over with Time Machine but then I lose 3 months history
Not if you set the old TM disk off to the side unplugged and turned off. If in the next couple months you discover you need a file that isn't in the new TM data you can always connect the old and search for it. You don't trust it any longer so it isn't like you're going to reformat it and use it for any other purpose, right? -
Time Machine Disc Unmounts Itself
My Time Machine disc (500 GB FireWire 400) unmounts by itself after 2 to 3 hours. Initially I thought it was the drive. It was always up long enough to get at least one good backup a day so I wasn't too worried about losing much data. Recently, I moved a lot of files (couple hundred GB) and now it can't finish Preparing to Backup before the disc unmounts.
I bought a new disc (2TB FireWire 400) and it is doing the same thing-unmounting after a couple of hours.
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Here is a sample of the widget logs. They're all pretty much the same:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeLapse/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Timeless Connections
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: The Unknown
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: MasterControl
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Music
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Entertainer
No pre-backup thinning needed: 493.20 GB requested (including padding), 1.77 TB available
Backup requested by user
Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
I am not ejecting the disk. It ejects when no one is home. Its working when I leave and ejected when I get home.
Do we need to go to the logs? Here is a sample portion of the system log from yesterday
Jan 20 16:43:18 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[90769]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeLapse/Backups.backupdb
Jan 20 16:43:34 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[90769]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Timeless Connections
Jan 20 17:57:37: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 20 17:58:07: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 20 18:16:33: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 20 18:17:03: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 20 18:33:26 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[90769]: Copied 3032 files (79.1 GB) from volume Timeless Connections.
Jan 20 18:37:38 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[91797]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeLapse/Backups.backupdb
Jan 20 18:37:47 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[91797]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Timeless Connections
Jan 20 19:39:08 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[91797]: Copied 30 files (47.4 GB) from volume Timeless Connections.
Jan 20 19:39:24 Master-Control-2 com.klieme.TimeMachineScheduler[92268]: false
Jan 20 20:07:50 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[92546]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeLapse/Backups.backupdb
Jan 20 20:07:57 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[92546]: Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Timeless Connections
Jan 20 20:31:42: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 20 20:32:12: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Jan 20 22:39:04 Master-Control-2 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[92546]: Copied 51 files (118.7 GB) from volume Timeless Connections.
Jan 20 22:39:20 Master-Control-2 com.klieme.TimeMachineScheduler[93729]: false
Do you see anything useful? What's this about the "UUIDs don't match for volume"? I know it is Unique User ID but I'm not sure what it is telling me. What doesn't match? -
itunes could not be connected to ipad because it is locked with a passcode, i must enter a passcode on the ipad before it can be used with itunes but all i see is "iPad is disabled connect to itunes" I have a passcode but nothing shows on the screen
iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school enviroment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
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IPAD is Disabled, tried to connect via itunes but get error "iTunes could not connect to the [device] because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the [device] before it can be used with iTunes."
iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school enviroment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
Cheers, Tom -
I am using my time machine for the first time. I have bought an external backup mobile drive 1TB.
I have turned time machine on and it has save only 149gb of 250gb. How do I get it to save 250gb?
How do I see what it has actually saved and once stored how do I view and restore certain files back to my laptop?
Many thanks ChristineTime Machine does exclude some things automatically, such as system work files, most caches and logs, your trash, etc. That's usually a few GBs, though, not 100!
If the backup completed normally, then it backed-up everything it needed to. It sounds like you have something extra-large (and somewhat hidden) taking up a lot of space. See Where did my Disk Space go? for some common culprits.
For other info on Time Machine, you might want to start with the Time Machine Tutorial, and perhaps browse Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. Questions #14-17 and 19 there cover the various ways to see and restore from your backups. That's a lot of not-so-light reading, so don't hesitate to post back with any other questions.
By the way, Time Machine is the software that performs backups, to various places. A Time Capsule is a piece of Apple hardware combining a wireless router and hard drive, and is a good way to make wireless backups with Time Machine.
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