Lost Gigabytes

Ok so I had to reinstall OS X due to some networking problems. I used archive and install with saving user preferences. Everything turned out OK except for one thing.
Before I installed, I had 30 GB free... and now I have 20 GB free. It's like 10 GB just disappeared.
Does anyone know where these are being used and where I can find them to delete them? Thanks.

Hi soootyface;
What I am talking about is not a file. It is a folder which should be created after an Archive & Install.
If you can't find that folder after an Archive & Install, I would be concerned that either the install didn't work correctly or you have problem in with your directories.
You might want to try an application called WhatSize. This is a very faster way to find what is using space on your disks.
Allan

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Read the Boot Camp Help first. Boot Camp does not yet support Windows 8.1 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/system-requirements. If you insist on installing 8.1 use a virtual machine like parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

Warning. Stop using Apple's native email App.

Stop using Apple's native email App, or else you will end up just like me, with no room for anything else.
The thing is a memory gobbler.
It eats memory like a hog and there is no way in the world to reclaim lost Gigabytes.
You though you can get back your memory by deleting emails? You are wrong!
You thought erasing email accounts will help? No. Another strikeout.
There is no way to get your memory back. Neither the thing can be uninstalled.
You will be better of not using Apple's email app ever!

Been using Apple's mail app in iOS for years with a total of 9 different email accounts without a problem. As always, your personal experience and problems are not an indication of a fundamental flaw or even issue for the many MILLIONS of users world wide.
Perhaps, if you just gave some actual details of your situation, someone here could actually help you.

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If it has ran fine for almost a year, anyone out there still reccomend purchasing the Apple Care Extension Plan?
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BUT One Problem !!!!!!!!!
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However if your logic board later died from unrelated causes, they are very likely to still replace it, which would get you a new ethernet port too.
I bought an iBook G3 with a broken ethernet port (like, broken off, it wasn't there anymore) and a broken logic board (normal iBook G3 failure). Apple replaced the logic board, and in the process, I got a new ethernet port

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Your whole story ***** and I am sorry for you. However, this is what I do when that sort of thing happens. Apparently your MacBook is old if it has a Core Duo (not a Core2Duo for Lion).
The easiest solution would have been to just buy a new one, and have the old one repaired at leisure. That's what a professional would do. Then, once your old one is repaired, it is a back up machine for future fiascos. Also, buy APPLECARE. It's worth it's wieght in gold. Once, I brought an iMac in for repair for the same issue a second time and their solution was to just hand me a brand new iMac, two models newer than the broken one.
When my wife was working on her master's thesis, her iMac died. Just died. No startup nothing, no screens. Just dead. It was 8 pm. her Thesis was due in 5 days. We rushed to the Apple store and simply bought a new iMac. Then the next day, I brought her old one for repair. It took a week, but was fixed--after the thesis was due. But it wasn't a point of stress for us because her thesis was on Time Machine backup and on her new iMac, and turned in.
So although your situtation is insane and I totaly feel for you, you have to operate under the assumption that EVERYONE IS A MORON, and cover your own butt (maybe it's just the Gen-Xer in me). I assume situations like yours will happen everywhere. The Apple Store, the Crocs Store, Cold Stone Creamery, the driver's license place, ... customer support will always be like your experience. If you think that it doesn't happen everywhere, just go buy a Dell--I've used their support as well. only they mailed me a bluetooth chip and had me install it myself...omg.

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Macaulay‘s Law of Software Upgrades:
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I do the same thing as you do...
My music is on an external drive as to not use up gigabytes of storage that need not be used for media.
There are a couple basic principles to iTunes that I believe you should know.
1. iTunes is not a media storage program. It does not store your media "in iTunes". It simply is an organization tool for your media already on a hard disk.
2. As iTunes is not a storage mechanism, it has no way to "know" whether or not the media that is listed is actually there. This is where the "design" of iTunes comes into play.
I like to think of iTunes as a bread-crumb trail. The "music" in iTunes, isn't actually there. The bread crumb is the location on the external hard drive.
If that bread crumb trail disappears (in this case the external drive you use). If said external drive is not plugged in, that bread crumb trail is not able to be followed. iTunes is "lost" and unable to find the media. The only way to remedy this is to place the media on your local drive.
To address your issue of the library. If you hold down shift, you can select your library on your external drive. It will be a file with an .itl extension. The folder name will be your external drive.
I go into edit > preferences > advanced and set my library to the correct location. Make sure you check the box "Copy to iTunes Folder when importing" (or whatever it says).
You can't fix the issue of iTunes not seeing the media if your drive is unplugged unless you physically move the content to your OS HDD...Or any other HDD you use.

[Solved] Avid Linux user coming back after years lost in installation

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Solution --> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1380897
Hi o/
Years ago, I can't remember how many, I got a new pc. I tried to install archlinux, but couldn't get grub to load at all. I tried countless times after that, and always had to resort to win to save my ass because of how lost I was. Until one day I didn't come back. The mere thought of having to research the forums, looking for an answer nobody seemed to have, made me cringe so much that I ended up giving up. "I'll try again in some months, when this motherboard is less 'new'", I thought, but months became years.
Now I'm back, but I'm as lost as I was back then. All I remember is that my motherboard has some kind of "hybrid efi/bios" system of some sort that ended up being a pain in the ass for me and my old ways of installing arch, which seem to be relatively outdated.
So, to the point, can someone point me in some kind of direction to go?
I know the wiki, and I've read the new installation guide superficially, but I'm not sure what to do when it comes to EFI vs BIOS. I can't completely format my hdd atm because I have no means of backing the information up, but the drive is partitioned in my old fashioned way (1win, 2storage, 3lnx, 4swap), so I hope that won't be a problem (GPT don't give me headaches, plz).
Should I repartition my drive entirely? Do I need a new partition table? Do I need a boot partition? Can I install archlinux, win and have an storage partition + swap partition, all at the same time? Can I just choose to not use EFI at all, or should I upgrade entirely?... so many questions, but no clues on where to head to get this solved.
I crave to come back to archlinux. I miss it so much! I hope I can find the answer this time and settle this topic once and for all.
Thanks in advance
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Sound: nVIDIA GF119 - High Definition Audio Controller
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Last edited by fatum (2014-02-12 19:40:27)

jasonwryan wrote:
And your question is?
Seriously, you say you have read the wiki "superficially"? Read it carefully.
You seem to want to know how to dual boot Arch with an existing Windows (and perhaps another Linux distro) on a UEFI/GPT setup. There is a page for that.
If you can't backup your current system, then you have only one option: use what you have, be it a UEFI or MBR setup.
If you need specific details, ask for those. If you need your hand held, you are out of luck.
I know I'm not asking for specifics, and I know the archlinux community is awesome at resolving issues when you specify decently enough, but the idea was to start somewhere. That was the question, but I guess I could have phrased it differently. Problem is that I can't really be specific when I'm so lost.
By superficially I mean reading it several times, but without actually trying all of the steps to the very end (got stuck at efi,gpt, bios, etc). I've followed the steps carefully several times (at least 5-6 times if I recall correctly), until I rebooted and grub didn't load at all. The bios said something like "Loading operating system..." but nothing happened (can't remember the words exactly, but it says that on every boot). Tried changing the bios config to "efi, bios and automatic" on different installations, but none seemed to work.
About partitions, can I keep my MBR setup as it is and still be able to make grub load in this motherboard? I think I might be missing some information, because I used to install archlinux with a bios/mbr setup without any problems whatsoever. The only thing I think I haven't tested is formatting the hdd entirely and changing to GPT, which is what I would like to avoid if I can. If you think there is something I should try anyway just let me know. If you think I should read some specific wiki article on the topic let me know too.
I don't want my hand held, that just totally makes no sense. I'm just looking for some pointers to break through the wall, which could mean reading articles that I think I've already read 1000 times. I'll read that page carefully, no doubt. Thank you for pointing the (for others) obvious, but not so obvious to me. You helped me remember a lot stuff that I tried back then.
nomorewindows wrote:You'd have easier times partitioning and making better use of your space with GPT. With x86_64 version of Windows 7 it should play nicely with EFI and GPT. This is where you'd need to start. Linux doesn't care about whether it is GPT, or MBR. I have FreeBSD and Arch nicely working together on GPT/BIOS. You could run win under qemu-kvm for those just have to compulsively run win applications that won't run under wine. There are several forum topics on EFI/Windows and Arch.
I'll try reading about the whole efi-gpt-bios-mbr topic again. I want to avoid formatting as much as I can, but I will eventually change if no other option seems to work.
About qemu, the last time I checked virtual machines didn't work with 3d acceleration good enough to handle the few videogames that are not supported by wine that I play. Those games are the only thing that keep win running in my system. If I manage to install arch I will consider your recommendation and test it all again.
vacant wrote:
fatum wrote:I have no means of backing the information up
If you know this, then your data is of little value so you are at an ideal stage to reorganize just the way you want. Which means...
fatum wrote:Should I repartition my drive entirely? Do I need a new partition table? Do I need a boot partition? Can I install archlinux, win and have an storage partition + swap partition, all at the same time? Can I just choose to not use EFI at all, or should I upgrade entirely?
The answer to all these questions is "you choose".
Sit down and work out your ideal set up
Install that set up
If you get stuck then post details of what you've tried and ask a specific question
If you cock it up or decide after a while you don't like that set up, scrub it and start again
You have a point. Starting from scratch might actually be ideal. The problem is that I wanted to avoid formatting as much as I could. I will try to find a way to back the information up, just in case I find any, because, if I do, the whole thing would become a lot easier to handle.

Started download of "Lost" TV series, not enough space

I just purchased the entire Season One of the "Lost" TV series. Twenty-Five one hour episodes I believe. Then I realized that my powerbook only has about 6 gigs of hard drive space left. I think these videos will exceed that.
Steve Jobs said that one TV show takes between 10-20 mins to download, so 25 should take a few hours.
I'm going to bed now. I don't know if I should cancel the download or what? If I do, can I start it over again somehow. I have an external hard drive that has enough space, but my iTunes folder isn't on that drive. If I let this download continue, in the morning my hard drive will be 100% full, and the 25 episodes will not have finished downloading. I'm sure 25 hours of TV will be more than 6 gigabytes.
Did I just waste $35 purchasing this TV series that can't finish downloading? Possibly screwing up my powerbook in the process by filling the hard drive 100% ? Any suggestions please?
Update: Episode One (Pilot Part 1) just finished downloading, and it was about 220 mb. Multiply that by 25 episodes (assuming the others are the same size) and the total for 25 episodes should be about 5.25 gigs. I had about 6.5 gigs of space when I started...so maybe I'll be ok. I'll just have to transfer all these TV shows to my new iPod Video I just ordered when it arrives I guess. I hope the download doesn't get interrupted. Anyone know what to do if that happens? Contact customer service I would assume?

Thanks, Colin.
I had enough room. The 25 one hour episodes came to 4.93 GB. It took all night though. When I woke up it was on episode #23 of 25. I think that had to do with my wireless connection. The progress bar looked like it had stopped moving, so I carried my laptop into the other room and put it right next to my airport base. Then the progress bar started moving, and the last 2 episodes downloaded in about 20 minutes.
I just got through copying all the episodes over to my external hard drive.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Randall

How to I get lost memory back?

I was following a step-by-step video on Youtube on how to get Arma 2 and DayZ for Mac. And I had to get VMware Fusion. After many hours, I figured it out. I got a virtual machine, Windows 7, on my Macbook Air. I had to do all this configuring and downloading, and when I created a hard disk, I added 60 gigabytes. 29 of them were for the virtual machine, the other 31 were for the Arma 2 and DayZ mod installation. Log story short, my Wondows 7 crashed. So I decided to delete the hard disk attatcged to it so I could get the mmory back. It wouldn't let me delete it. So I closed out of VMwar Fusion nd tried again. Stll wouldn't work. So I used an app called Disk Diagnosis. It's common on the app store, and I deleted my trash. BUT, I can NOT find it anywhere and I did not get my 60 gigabytes back. This is my brand new Macboo Air from Christmas, and I'm really sad that I lost this much memory when I was just trying to play a game. Also, if anyone knows about RAM, it is continuously dropping relly fast. And my app, Memory Clean, is cleaning it when it gets too low. Thank you.

Sorry, I was in a rush and i didn't correct my misspelled words.

Lost Photos in iPhoto 11

Whilst I imported new photos and whilst I identified faces (which is also adding photos) I lost a major part of the photos. Some 20'000 miniatures are still avalable but only about 12'000 originals are available or accessible. It is strange that a part of the photos which are originated in 2010 to 2012 are lost or no more accessible. The originals of the older photos are almost completelly available. The file size of the version which counts 20'000 photos is 41 Gigabyte whilst the rebuilt file shows 12'000 photos and has a size of 34 Gigabytes. It seems that in fact more photos are (still) in the file but no more accessible. I already used the program iPhoto Library Manager. As you can see on the picture below, complete events are lost as well (or no more accessible).
Because of this problem, I am reluctant to continue to manage photos using iPhoto.

Don't use iPhoto if you don't want to. It's not compulsory. Did you have a question?

Changed disks in my RAID, Aperture lost all referenced masters.

I have a G-Speed eS RAID system. I had 4 X 1TB disks.
I decided to change the hard disks to 2TB ones to double my storage capacity.
I retained the same volume name. I backed up the 2.5TB of data to 3 other disks and then copied it back to my upgraded RAID.
So I have a completely identical file structure. My photos were in /Volumes/GS/photo, and this is where they are now. However Aperture lost all connections to the 35000 referenced files.
It seems that there is no way to tell Aperture that old /Volumes/GS and new /Volumes/GS is the same location from my point of view (is your point of view different?). This means I have to reconnect each one of the 100+ projects manually. I DO NOT LIKE THAT. Am I missing something, or is this a nasty oversight? Don't tell me that this is a "feature" and one can only move REFERENCED masters from within Aperture...
Note: Repairing or rebuilding the library does not help.

Your suggestion works, but
1) You have to first select all photos in the "photos" smart album. If you do select them all, "Reconnect All" will not work.
2) Most important, after reconnecting, I also told Aperture to rebuild my library. And it lost them again... The photos got connected to a <null> named drive which is shown as offline.
We are talking about a big deficit of reliability here...
I had a backup of my Aperture Library. So I reconnected the files again, without a Library rebuild this time.
But what if I need to rebuild my library in the future?? I AM SCARED...
No need to mention that I have lost all day moving around many gigabytes of data, reconnecting files, etc etc. This is hardly a productivity boost.
The worst part is that I like a lot the Aperture UI and I hate the alternative.
But Aperture is unfortunately unreliable.
Just play enough time with the loupe on my MacPro and the application will crash.

I wanted to syncing my itunes to my ipad 2 (ios 4.3.3) and update to ios 5. but i did not have back up. So i lost all photos other files. Pls help...Txs

Hello,
I wanted to syncing itunes to my ipad2 in order to upgrade ios from 4.3.3 to 5 but lost all photos + all other files...
txs for your help:)

Scroll down and see the "Update Your Device Using iTunes" section here:
HT4623
There is no "update icon" in iOS versions earlier than iOS 5.
The update is very large (over 1.2 gigabytes). You need a good internet connection to download it to your computer. Maybe you'll need to take a trip to a city to get a good enough connection.

Error: can't update, file is lost

I downloaded the standalone version of the update and I don't know where it is. How do I launch it? Seems to have disappeared inside my hard disk somewhere.
So I downloaded another one and after a half gigabyte it says it can't save the update. Presumably the first one is preventing the second one from being saved.
I tell you what, I have so many problems with Mac these days I feel like I should switch back to Microsoft (after 9 years). Pardon me for being irritable, but one problem after the other, and you think you solved one and it causes more problems.

Gnarlodious wrote:
I downloaded the standalone version of the update and I don't know where it is. How do I launch it? Seems to have disappeared inside my hard disk somewhere.
So I downloaded another one and after a half gigabyte it says it can't save the update. Presumably the first one is preventing the second one from being saved.
I tell you what, I have so many problems with Mac these days I feel like I should switch back to Microsoft (after 9 years). Pardon me for being irritable, but one problem after the other, and you think you solved one and it causes more problems.
You only mention one problem, and it's not Apple's fault. You downloaded a file and lost it.
When you downloaded the second one, that should have shown you where the first one is.
If the second download failed, it's possible your HD is full. A download of an identical file automatically results in a (1) being appended to the file name so there is no conflict or error.
Clearly you have some other problem.
Did you look in your downloads folder?
Did you use Finder to search for it?
You launch it by double-clicking it after you find it, which is always the way to launch a downloaded image/app.
Again, if you have other problems with your computer, you should address and resolve them before updating. Never update a computer that is not working properly, unless the update is specifically directed at an existing problem.

PC suddenly lost my sound card (Audigy 2zs)

Yesterday, out of the blue, my PC was no longer able to play music. I was playing an album through mediamonkey?and suddenly it stopped. Took me some time to realize that my system no longer identified the sound card. I'm using an Audigy 2ZS and now not even the drivers appear on the system manager.
I tried a lot of things to no avail:
- Tried to reinstall the drivers: they won?t install because they can't find the hardware.
- Tried uninstalling everything (drivers, creative software, etc), still coudn't install the drivers.
- Changed card to a different slot, still system can't find it
- Tried to install an X-Fi that I also have (I still prefer the audigy) on both slots, no go, same problem, same steps as the above.
- Tried a system restore, no change.
I am now using my onboard sound but I would very much like to go back to my audigy. Here are my specs:
- Gigabyte GA-P3-S3G mobo
- Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz
- 2 GB Ram
- Nvidea 8800 gt PCI-E ultra-edition (Gigabyte)
- Windows XP SP3
- PCI wireless network card (Blekin Rangebooster, can't remember the model)
As far as I know, nothing on my system has changed. It probably has nothing to do with that or else system restore would work.
In the past I had a similar problem, with a different machine not being able to see the sound card on a fresh XP install. I gave up then, but after a few days, all of the sudden, a message poped-up telling "new hardware detected". Only then was I able to install the complete software and driver pack.
So anyway, any ideas on this one? I would love to get my Audigy online again....

/Re: PC suddenly lost my sound card (Audigy 2zs)& Hi Zehnra, I don't think it's exacly the same problem. My PC sees no card at all and even reeboting with a diferent one on a diferent slot won't do the trick. I also don't think it has anything to do with any windows update or else system restore would take care of that (I restored it to 24h of the failling point).
I noticed one thing thouh, I still have some leftovers from creative stuff, so maybe that's what blocking basic xp drivers. But hunting everything down by hand is a b****, specialy going through the registries...
On your case, someone told me on some other forum that there is some kind of bug with newer drivers and SP3. If I were you I would try to unistall everything first, also the x-fi drivers. There is a diferent instalation menu within the installation package, directly on the xp drivers folder. After that try rebooting and if your PC sees the card, try installing trhough the original CD... Sorry if you already tried that but I ran out of ideas. Moved to my onboard card now.... ?

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