Location of Boot drive

By default the launching HD appears at the top right of the screen but this week my internal HD appears next to the trash. It's no big deal but I'm curious WHY ? Any ideas? I have osx 10.4.8

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How to move the photos from my boot drive to a newly installed hard drive?

- regarding iPhoto's storage, etc.... Where is the iPhoto library located anyway? And - how to transfer it to the brand new hard drive?
I want to add a ned hard drive just to keep the media there, so I would like to transfer all the GBs worth of photos (the whole iPhoto library or - what folder, really?).
What do I need to do in order to accomplish this task?, and assuming that there is no problem moving all the photos (as I understand it would mean Originals, Modified & Data) - can I then just delete the original iPhoto Library (but from where?) somewhere on my boot drive?
Basically - I want to move all the photos from my boot drive to the newly installed hard drive, and after a successful move, I'd like to delete all the same photos from its original location (the boot drive).

One addition to Larry's steps: make sure the external drive is formatted OS X Extended (journaled) and have it set to ignore ownership as seen here:
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Is the spotlight index stored on the boot drive or individual volumes?

Hello!
My questions are pretty simple, and are sumarized here (from the block of text below):
First, if I have several external hard drives, is the Spotlight index file for each drive stored on the external hard drive, or on OS X's boot drive?
Secondly, if it's stored on the boot drive, can I copy these files to another Tiger-running Mac to eliminate the need to re-index the hard drives? Where do I find them?
Third: Leopard's Spotlight has quite a few new features. Even if the Tiger index files are stored on the external drive, will it need to re-index the drive to support the new feature set?
Now for the long explenation:
I have been preparing to upgrade my Powerbook to Leopard within the next month or two, and as such, I bought a new hard drive to dedicate one of my old drives to Leopard and Time Machine. Because I have three extrernal hard drives, I needed to move about 500 GB of data between the thee drives to make room for what was on the now-dedicated drive. Of course, this requires that Spotlight re-index the "new" drives.
Today, I left all of the drives attached to my old G4, running Tiger, while it sits there indexing the three drives, totaling around a terrabyte of external storage. Because Spotlight tends to hog all of the available CPU time, and the G4 should be done indexing the drives, it would save me a lot of time if I could copy the index files over from the G4 to my Powerbook to avoid indexing them all over again. That is, if the index files are not on the external drives already. If they are on the G4's boot drive, where do I find these files?
Finally, I plan to reformat the internal hard drive of my Powerbook when I install Leopard - I make a habit of doing a fresh install for every major upgrade (eg, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, etc). To estimate the amount of time needed to upgrade, I'd be nice to know if Leopard will need to re-index the files on the external drives - even if Tiger's spotlight index is stored on the externals - for Leopard's new Spotlight features. Will it need to re-index? I would assume that until Leopard arrives, most people wouldn't know this, of course.
Thanks a bunch,
-Dan

Each drive's Spotlight index is located on that drive.
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What's the best setup for a dedicated boot drive (Lion) with a separate storage drive?

I have a 120GB SSD and 4 x 3TB drives striped together for storage on my hot off the shelf Mac Pro. This may be an elementary question and I'm sure it's like every other post in these forums but what really is the best way to maintain a dedicated OSX Lion boot drive while keeping user profile type stuff on the storage drive? A few thoughts...
1) I know the risks with striping, which is why it will all be backed up online. Yes. Online.
2) I am specifically curious about how to keep pretty much all of the User folder type stuff on the storage drive...at least the big stuff.
Any recommendations? I know Win7 had some big problems with doing this kind of thing. My main goal is to be able to reinstall OS X every day if I wanted and not affect the users or their respective data. Possible?

The desktop is implemented by a folder by the same name in the Home folder for each user.
Before you move it, it will be here:
/Users/<your_shortname>/Desktop
I would first try providing an alias in Finder to replace that Folder.
If that does not work, you may need to use Terminal to create a Symbolic Link.
ln -s <desired location> <where the link should be created>
You can open up terminal and type in man ln to see the other options and how the command works.

Moving boot drive - will mac recognize ?????

I'm going to add 2 200gb internal ultra ATA/100 drives to my G4 dual 1ghz MDD. There are only room for 2 ATA/100 drives(rear bay) , and my boot is taking up one of the slots. I was thinking of moving my boot drive to the front bay(ata/66, and installing the 2 new drives to the rear bay. My question is.......... will the mac automatically recognize where I've placed the boot drive??? Or will I need to boot from my install disc to pick the new boot drive??? Also, can someone verify that MDD g4's are set up for large drive support???? thanks

"will the mac automatically recognize where I've placed the boot drive???"
Yes. Physical location of the drive does not matter.

System folders on another drive other than boot drive

hi, guys...
does anyone know anything about moving your folders such as "documents, photos, movies, music" to an external drive or separate partition in snow leopard? or how this might affect Lion?
i've found some online documentation that shows you can move your entire home folder (which i don't want to do), and some documentation that you can use symbolic links (via a few terminal commands) so that the actual system folder can be moved elsewhere with an alias being the actual reference folder.
the reason i want to do this is to move my music and photo folders to a storage partition. i add and delete so often on these that it ends up fragmenting my drive and bogs down my startup disk. also, i'm going to move soon to an SSD as my startup drive, either 128 or 240 gb and use it only for system files and move all my data elsewhere.
but as you know, os x likes certain things in the default folders.
so i guess i'm looking for anyone's thoughts on this.
oh, and i do have a question. if i can use a symbolic link and have the actual data reside elsewhere, if i do a time machine backup and it's backing up all my system and user folders, will it backup the data that resides elsewhere, or would i have to actually back up separately from the other location where the music and photos reside?
is this making any sense to anyone?

makes a lot of sense. I am looking for an answer myself. My documents folder long ago outgrew it's place on the boot drive. It would be nice to keep it in the user folder organized on another disc

Can the creative cloud apps be installed on a drive other than the boot drive?

I have an SSD for the boot drive and keep most apps on an 'applications' drive. It appears that CC apps install by default to the boot drive. Am I incorrect? Can I control what drive they install on?

Yes you can change the install location:
Launch the Adobe Application Manager.
Click on your name in the top left and from the context menu choose Preferences.
Change the Install Location to the one you want.

Creating A New Boot Drive For Mac Pro Desktop

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 using Lion:
I would like to create a new and bigger boot drive but having not done this before I would appreciate any direction that would make this as painless as possible. I will continue to use Lion but am a little lost when it comes to doing this with the download process of Lion as well as transferring what has been created on the current HD in the MacPro. I have a new WD Black 2 TB SATA that I would like to use as the new boot drive. Again, thank you for the help.

Don't. Use. 2TB for system. Seriously.
Use that for data.
Get yourself a $89 Samsung 840 120GB instead along with Icy Dock $15. You will. Love it.
You don't need a large drive for the system. All you need to do is MOVE all the data and media files and every thing else, just leave the small 4GB /Users/myuseraccount/Library on the boot drive with the OS and apps. Everything else gets off loaded.
Leave your drive you ahve now as is for backup. Move data and clone the system.
Clone your system:
How to Clone a Volume
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
See also Erasing a Drive, How and Why to Partition a Drive, RAID.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-partition-your-hard-drive-on-mac-os -x-snow-.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU.html
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/To successfully relocate your operating system, user accounts and data from one storage device to another, meet the following conditions:
The destination storage device (SSD drive or hard drive) you are migrating to should be physically located in the same computer. Moving operating system files from one computer to another computer using software not specifically designed for that computer can cause issues due to software, hardware, and firmware version mismatches.
Always back up your storage device with Time Machine or Disk Utility before you start.
Icy Dock $15
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Creating a Boot drive and a data drives

I have just installed a new 750 GB hard drive into a PowerMac G5, it had a 160 GB drive already, and I left that in there. I would like to use the older smaller drive as the boot drive, and the newer bigger one as the user data drive.
How do I go about doing it to minimize problems? I can clone the older drive onto the newer one, using disk utility. Once I do that, then what? Please give me some detailed steps.
Where do I divide things up, put system and applications on the boot drive, and users on the data drive? What about Library? What about things like etc, tmp, and var? Will I have problems cloning users? Please help

You do not need to clone to the new drive, unless you want to be able to startup from it.
Just use Disk Utility. Select the new drive in the Disk Utility sidebar. If you just want one partition on the drive, you can use the Erase tab to format it. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format type. If you want to partition it and format it, use the Partition tab. One possibility is to create two partition, with one partition being about the size of the 160GB startup drive. You can then periodically clone your regular startup drive to that smaller partition to have a bootable backup (very useful for trouble-shooting). The second partition can be the rest of the space. How you partition the drive is up to you...
You should keep your system and library files on the startup drive. You should generally keep your application files on your startup drive, in the Application folder. You may also want to keep all of default first level folders in your Home (user) folder on the startup drive. These are the folders like Documents, Music, Movies, etc. that are created during the OS installation.
Inside these user folders, I have moved my large folders (such as +iTunes Music+ at <home>/Music/iTunes/) to my second drive. Then I create an alias named exactly like the moved folder, and put it back in the original location. When iTunes is started, it should act like the folder was still on startup drive in the default location. Alternately, you can move the folder and tell iTunes where the new location is in its preferences, but I like using the default settings when possible.
You should be able to take similar actions to put your iPhoto library folder and others on your second drive. If you have sub-folders in your documents folder, you can also alias them to folders on your second drive. Essentially, most of your user-created data can be on the second drive, but it will look like a default setup in Finder and to the system.
There are more technical things you can do, such as move your entire user folder to the second drive. You can look at those possibilities as well...

External ssd boot drive - tidying up!

Hi all, to speed up my late 2011 27" iMac I've upgraded the RAM to 12gb (small improvement) and then installed an external thunderbolt 256GB SSD drive as my boot drive (massive performance improvement.)
My question is now what's the best thing to do with the internal 1TB HDD? I've read that locating your home folders onto the internal drive is best practice for performance (frees up spave on the SSD for the system to use). I think it would be useful to have a backup of the boot drive on the internal HDD but how to do everything in the best way is what I need advice on....
Should I delete the copies of the home directories on the internal HDD drive before moving them from the SSD to HDD? Should I then delete them from the SSD? At the moment the HDD is still as it was when I Carbon Copied it onto the SSD but that means it's now a slightly out of date version of the boot drive.
I want to end up with a backup of my install but free up as much space as possible on both the SSD and the HDD and get the best performance I can overall.
Any help appreciated!

Look through several of them. There are those for Windows and those for Macs. For example, Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup - Matt Gemmell. Or follow the link at the bottom: ssd and hdd together mac.

Procedure for SSD boot drive in Mac Pro?

I just purchased a 115GB SSD that I want to use as the boot drive in my Mac Pro running OS 10.6.8. I've read several articles about how to set this up but none seem to be working for me. On the SSD boot drive I want only the essentials: OS, Home Folder, Apps. Everything else (docs, downloads, music, photos, movies, etc.) needs to go on my 1TB storage HD. The problem I'm having using Carbon Cloner and Super Duper to copy the OS, HF and apps to the SSD is they're copying too much data, filling up the SSD with non-essentials (there should only be about 90GB of data being copied but much more seems to be transferred). I can't seem to lean-down what's being moved. Would doing a new install with the Snow Leopard DVD and then copying over only the essential files/folders with Migration Assistant be better, more specific?
Has anyone perfected this procedure, and can give me step-by-step instructions? All help is greatly appreciated!

There are dozens and dozens of threads, MPG, MacRumors and elsewhere.
don't move anything from "home" except the bare essential ~/Library (1GB at most) with CCC and deelect everything else. That should get you down to size.
Before you bought I hope you asdded up the /applications and good estimate. most users can get an OS/apps into 60GB or less (the max I would want to see on SSD you have) FCP and some others or if you hae a lot of large apps - some allow for installing in alternate locations as well as into system/library.
Some - there are always some - have had trouble cloning. Some had trouble with installing, too. Can't win for losing at every turn sometimes.
Been there, but look again at MPG series.
How To Clone a Volume
How to upgrade your system/boot drive
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy

Installing OS and Apps on SSD boot drive on early 2008 Mac Pro while keeping all other data from old iMac on hdd

So I've just got myself a early 2008 Mac Pro with a OCZ RevoDrive 80GB PCIe SSD to replace my old iMac which is slowly but surely giving up on me. I want to put my OS (mavericks) and some/all (whichever is possible/easier) apps, both apple and 3rd party, from my old iMac, onto the SSD but keep all my other data on the 2TB HDD, also from my old iMac, in the mac pro. Can anyone tell me how to do this/if its possible? (not massively tech savvy so simpleish language and steps would be handy!) Thanks!

How to use an SSD with your HDD
If you are going to use an SSD as a boot drive together with your existing HDD as the "data" drive, here's what you can do.
After installing the SSD you will need to partition and format the SSD using Disk Utility. Then, install OS X on the SSD. After OS X has been installed boot from the SSD. Use Startup Disk preferences to set the SSD as the startup volume.
Open Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on your user account listing in the sidebar and select Advanced Options from the context menu. You will see a field labeled "Home dir:" At the right end you will see a Change button. Click on it. In the file dialog locate the Home folder now located on the HDD (HDD/Users/account_name/.) Select the folder, click on Open button. Restart the computer as directed.
When the computer boots up it will now be using the Home folder located on the HDD.
Another more technical method involving the Terminal and aliases is discussed in depth here: Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup - Matt Gemmell. This is my preferred approach because I can select which of the Home's folders I want on the HDD and which I don't want. For example, I like to keep the Documents and Library folders on the SSD because I access their content frequently.
Be sure you retain the fully bootable system on your HDD in case you ever need it.

250 GB SSD, and GetInfo on the boot drive shows 267 GB available.

Puzzlement:
I'm running OSX 10.9.3, and have a 250 GB SSD "hard drive". When I run GetInfo on the boot drive, it shows 267 GB available. How come?
LeonfromWA

The S.M.A.R.T. status looks ok so it's probably not a issue with a failing disc.
My guess would be that this is due to corrupted filesystem metadata i.e. some of the filesystem data that tracks: size, names and locations of files (and folders) has become incorrect.
This needs to be fixed or it may result in the loss of files or odd bugs - I've personally seen this result in warnings about full disc (when plenty of space was available) and failures to boot.
To fix / determine if it is a filesystem issue:
Select "First Aid" in Disk Utility, use the Verify Disk button to check if there are any issues.
Use Repair Disk to fix detected issues. This may require you to boot form another disc to be able to do the repair.
There are 3rd party tools that may be able to fix issues that Disk Utility can't handle, but I have no experience with these so I can't recommend anything.
The final solution would be to reformat the disc and reinstall / restore from a backup - so remember to backup your data to another disc if you haven't previously done so.

Folders on the root level of boot drive

Hello. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if there are long-term or detrimental consequences to keeping a folder called "C/" located on the root directory of my boot drive in Snow Leopard.
An explanation: I work at a television station, and one of our video distribution systems is switching from a satellite-based system to a web-based client and download distribution. The online Java client for this distribution method defaults to setting a download folder of "C:/Downloads" which is clearly more suitable for Windows than OS X. If the default remains unchanged when a mac user begins a download, a folder is created on the boot drive called "C/". Inside that folder is another folder called "Downloads".
If there are no ill effects to be had from keeping this folder structure on the boot drive permanently, I'll likely create a folder action that will simply move the mpeg files from "Downloads" to a server that will automatically convert the mpeg files to something more suitable for Final Cut Pro. The editors in my shop won't have to worry about changing the download folder EVERY TIME and manually moving the downloaded file to our conversion server.
Thank you to anyone who can provide some input on this. For the moment, I've gone ahead and set this up on a test machine, and I'm waiting to see if it blows up...:-)

Boy would I ever love that!
Since the distribution is being handled by a company that also has an integrated editing/playout system for video, I imagine it was designed to favor that system rather than our current Final Cut setup. I'll make it work either way, it's just whether I'll be happy about it or not.
I'll keep this thread open for a couple days, see if I can get some feedback on it. If at the end of a week, I haven't found any problems of my own, and can't get a definite yes or no from anyone else, I'll leave a follow-up and mark it solved.

Setup RAID: boot drive is F, not C???

HI,
I configured my RAID to work as stripe (0) but the boot drive becomes F. I want it to be C.
I have the following:
old HD and CD burner at IDE 0.
SCSI DVD at acsi contoller.
To install I have to boot from the WinXP cd. So the drive(s) must be connected. But I only ca ninstall windows on drive F. (the next free driver letter). I want to install it on C.
MB: K7T Turbo MS-6330
How can I do this? (maybe with first boot device etc ??)
Thanks,
Bjorn

I have had the K7T Turbo v.3 board for about a year or so.
I never have tried the built-in RAID, because I hadn't needed to, for any reason. But now, I need the enhanced speed and performance that (supposedly) a stipe RAID can provide. So, while trying to re-load Windows XP with my 2 WD 30GB drives attached to the RAID IDE slots, I get error in setup stating that the partition is either invalid or damaged. Prior to changing from regular EIDE to RAID slots, there was NO DAMAGE OR PROBLEMS WITH EITHER DRIVES. I was working with the "one for all" Promise FastTrack Lite driver from a third-party site, simply because my diskette from the MFG is in storage in another location. What can I do to get the RAID stripe to work? The error occurs, by the way, while windows setup is formatting the system partition. I really would like to use the capabilities of my MB, since that's part of the reason why I purchased this particular model (even if it was a while ago) and it is still a considerable investment, especially if I am going to have to replace the mainboard and/or RAID controller.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am asking for replies to be sent to my email address, below. Thank you in advance. This note is also being copied and sent to the folks at MSI, in hopes that someone will be able to help me soon. I cannot afford to be without a working PC for more than a period of two full days, otherwise I lose too uch time, which translates directly into money, if you get what I mean. THANKS,
Dusty S.
[email protected]
Sacramento, CA.

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