Moving main hard drive

I want to change my main hard drive (Startup disk) to another, larger internal drive. Can I just make a back-up clone with SuperDuper, copy that to the new drive, and then change the Startup Disk to that on in system preferences?

Also, if you can run diskwarrior on the drive to "clean it up" and run smoother.

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Is it possible for me to move my movies and tv folder to a second hard drive on my computer to free up space on my main hard drive?

The main hard drive on my laptop is close to full, and it's the movies and tv folders of my itunes that is taking up pretty much all the space. I was just wondering if it were possible to move just that folder onto a second hard drive my laptop has and still be able to view the videos on itunes. Also, is it possible to tell itunes where to download future vidoes?

You can move the entire iTunes Media folder to another drive.
This Apple document will walk you through it -> iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder
If you just grab the movies folder and drag it to the external drive, iTunes won't know where the movies are.

Finder issues and Get Info refusing to show the number of files on items on the main hard drive.

I am having finder issues. Mostly on the main hard drive. It takes ages to find things and I get the spinning wheel every time I open a folder.
So I moved all of my files to a external drive. When I had finished transfering I hit get info on the files on the external drive and on the same folder on the main drive. To ensure that it has copied over all the files. Because it was acting up and not copying all the files.
Get Info refuses to show the number of files within the folders on the main hard drive. It hasppily tells me everything on any of the external drives.
I have reset, the imac. I have re indexed 3 times. I have deleted the finder plist files. I have reset finder using terminal commands. I have moved nearly everything off the main hard drive. But nothing is working.
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what could be causing my finder and get info issues.
Any help wpuld be appreciated.
Running Mountain Lion on a late 2009 Imac

Some of your user files (not system files) have incorrect permissions or are locked. This procedure will unlock those files and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
Back up all data.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags nouchg,nouappnd,noschg,nosappnd {} + -exec chown $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -N {} + -type d -exec chmod +x {} + 2>&-
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

Why do I have 200 GB of "backup" on my main hard drive? Any how can I find and erase them?

I have a MBP that was recently subjected to some liquid damage and taken in for repair. While it was being repaired, I purchased a second MBP. My newest MBP is now my personal laptop, and I'm converting the old one over to a work laptop. In that process, I've upgraded to Lion, and now I'm trying to free up as much hard drive space as possible. I have already deleted all of the music, photos and videos from the hard drive. However, when I go to see how much free space I have left, it shows that I have over 200 GB of "backups" on my main hard drive.
I have never created any backups on this drive. I only used an external HD to do Time Machine backups. How can I locate these backups and delete them in order to free up the hard drive space?

When you open FINDER, is there a folder titled 'backups? If not, have to tried 'search' or 'spotlight' to locate 'backups? By any chance is your disc partitioned?
You state that you have deleted all music, photos and videos from this drive. The graphic that you included in your query shows that these are still on the disc.
The simplest way of achieving your desired result is to open Disk Utility and erase all user data. However that does not tell us what 'backups' is. Pure speculation on my part, but if the disc is partitioned, maybe that is how it is represented on the graphic.
Click on the HDD on your desk top using Command 'I' and see if available space correlates with the the above graphic. If not this suggest a software issue.
If it does, you have to locate 'backups'. As alluded to previously, try SEARCH and SPOTLIGHT. 200GB is hard to hide. Another technique is to open finder and press COMMAND 'J'. Click on 'size' and 'calculate all sizes'. If one of those files is over 200 GB, you have located your culprit.
Better yet wait for someone who knows exactly what the problem is and will give a simple answer. I admit I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe I've at least given a bit of a starting point. Good luck.
Ciao.

How do I migrate firefox settings from a 4.0 FF install on my old main drive, now connected as an external drive, to my new main hard drive's 4.0 FF installation?

My old computer's motherboard cooked, but the hard drive was undamaged. I removed it, and converted it to an external hard drive using cables, and now want to migrate the bookmarks, passwords, and settings to my new computer's main hard drive installation of Firefox.

See [[Managing Profiles]] which explains how to recover data from your profile on the old drive.

Moving OS hard drives between Macs of different makes/models

Is it okay to move the operating system hard drive (E.g. the Boot drive) from one mac to another? What about from one model of mac (E.g. a Mac Mini) to a different model. (Mac Pro) In the PC world, this is an absolute no no due to drivers, registry issues, and other problems. However, I've spoken to a couple of mac technicians who say it's perfectly acceptable and works "flawlessly."
The reason i'm asking is because we recently built a new boot drive for one of our Mac Pros (2010 model) using a Mac Mini (2012). The tech installed the OS and all the applications using his mac mini and then moved the hard drive to the mac pro. Now we are having a bunch of weird issues with this specific mac pro such as lock ups and other glitches. We are now wondering if perhaps the issue is related to the build process used.
Thanks for any advice you can provide.

MattRK wrote:
...However, I've spoken to a couple of mac technicians who say it's perfectly acceptable and works "flawlessly."...
I'd say only if you're really lucky, but since you're having issues, you apparently weren't.
...We are now wondering if perhaps the issue is related to the build process used...
As The hatter has said, you'd need the machine-specific installer (i.e., Mac OS 10.6.4) for a 2010 Mac Pro which wasn't what was done.
However, since it looks like you're using Lion now, if you download and install the 10.7.5 combo updater, a good portion of the operating system will be replaced and customized for the Mac Pro. You can try that to see if the various glitches are cured. There are similar combo updaters for Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion which can accomplish pretty much the same thing.

I just updated to 10.8 Mountain Lion. Now I must enter my admin password each time I attempt to access my main hard drive. How do I reverse the need for the password. It's a real PAIN!

I just updated to 10.8 Mountain Lion from 10.7.5. Now I must enter my admin password each time I attempt to access my main hard drive. How do I reverse the need for the password? It's a real PAIN!

I'd think you have a Keychain problem (Keychain storing passwords and the likes).
When you are being asked, are you offered the checkbox, "Remember this password in my Keychain"? If so, check and see if it stops asking.

I have a mac pro 1.1. the main hard drive failed. How do I reload OS X 10.7 back in my computer. the app store will not let me reinstall this os. My computer is not compatible OS x 10.8?

I have a mac pro 1.1. the main hard drive failed. How do I reload OS X 10.7 back in my computer. the app store will not let me reinstall this os. My computer is not compatible OS x 10.8?

You need to first install the OS your Mac came on the bundled gray disks. Assuming it's Snow Leopard, you could then login into the App Store using your same Apple ID and password to download and install Lion.
If your Mac is a bit older and came with Leopard, 10.5.x, you can bypass that and install Snow Leopard from your retail disk. The only software you'd need to install separately from the gray disks would be the optional software, such as the iLife suite and other titles not included on the retail SL disk.

Can i Repace My Main hard Drive with Western Dig 750GB Serial ATA/300 Hard

i have a Dual 2 GHz Power PC G5. it has the origional 160 or 180 in there.
is this a good drive?
just want to make sure i put the best drive as my main hard drive.
this drive is on sale.
thanks for your help
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If you want to use the ATA 300 drive at full speed you'll need to buy an ATA 300 Card, otherwise it
will only run at 150Mbps. It will still work but the throughput will be half since the Original G5 ata
controllers are serial ata 1 intead of the lastest version 2.
RealDave

HT1750 My I mac won't boot, I have gone to restore but the apple hard drive next to the main hard drive says the drive is "locked" ?????? What to do?

I have an IMac which won't boot up and when I tried the restore function the Hard Drive next to the Main Hard Drive says it is "locked" when I tried to use it to restore my system. I have Mountain Lion which was working fine until recently. Now I can sit LITERALLY for an hour waiting for the gear to stop spinning but not results for loading the program. HELP!!!

As of 10.8.4, the volume must be unlocked first.
Here’s how the unlock procedure works for Disk Utility:
Boot your Mac and hold down ⌘-R (Command –R) to boot from the Recovery HD partition.
Open Disk Utility.
Select your locked hard drive.
Under the File menu, select Unlock “Drive Name”
When prompted for a password, enter the password of the authorized account on the drive.
Once you unlock the disk, hold down the Option key on your keyboard and click on the File menu.
Under the File menu, select Turn Off Encryption… with the Option key held down, it is no longer grayed-out.
When prompted for a password, enter the password of the authorized account on the drive.
Disk Utility should display a progress window labeled Starting conversion to JHFS+
Your drive should now be unlocked.

Photoshop CS5.1 suddenly can't save to main hard drive

This is very strange. In Photoshop I suddenly can't save files to the main hard drive on my mac mini. I get the error "Could not save as [filename] because the file is locked or you do not have the necessary access privileges. Use the ‘Get Info’ command in the Finder to unlock the file or change permissions on the file or enclosing folders." I can however save files to the secondary hard drive. Other applications can save to the main hard drive just fine.
As a test, in Photoshop I tried saving to the root of both drives. I get the error only when attempting to save to the main hard drive. I have checked the permissions of both drives and they are identical: system R/W, wheel R/W, and everyone R/W.
I have tried everything I can find on the message boards, but nothing works (disk repair, repair permissions, etc). I have also reinstalled Photoshop and get the same error.
any help much appreciated!
thanks,
JC

The problem has resolved itself!
All I did was reboot a few times in my attempts to get Command-R to work (I have a PC keyboard and the "option" and "command" keys are reversed until OS X boots).
Oh, one other thing I did... I logged in as a different user and ran Photoshop and was able to save a file to the main hard drive. Very strange because this guest user has less privilege than my normal login.
JC

TM using main hard drive as backup

I have a MacBook Pro and I am using Time Machine on 10.5.2. When I am at my desk, I plug in my external drive and use that for backup but every time I eject the disk, TM then makes my main hard drive the back up drive (with the TM icon and all). Then when I plug my external drive back in, both are still recognized as TM back up drives. This makes me very nervous especially since when I came into work this morning, my address book had been wiped clean and I have no idea why. Could this be doing something to my data. Does anybody know why this would be happening. I have 3 other Macs that I use TM on and this is the only one with the issue.
Thanks in advance.

The problem - or the problem's symptom - is a computer that boots up into Setup Assistant. And if you work your way through the setup, it then prompts you to start the same process all over again.
I attended a meeting of a local Apple club tonight. By chance, I met someone who had heard about the "setup assistant loop" problem. He showed me a web page that discusses it. Apparently, one problem is a missing invisible file. The catch: If this invisible file is missing, where do you get a copy of it to use as a replacement?
Anyway, I'm heading to the Apple Store tomorrow to see if they can solve that problem.

Can't find main hard drive on Sawtooth

When I woke up yesterday the my Sawtooth G4 was frozen. I restarted it and it booted from the secondary internal hard drive. I ran Disk Warrior and it didn't see the main 120GB hard drive. I restarted holding down the option key. Still only one hard drive. I ran Data Rescue. It didn't see the main hard drive. I've never not been able to recover a corrupted hard drive before. The 120 GB is not that old. What's next? I was thinking of starting from The Tiger disk, but if it finds it it will probabley tell me that it needs to erase it. I have some backup, but it's a few weeks old.

Well. I reset the NVRAM since my computer has never been able to wake up from sleep. I put it to sleep and although the computer turned on the monitor screen was black. I pressed the reset button on the computer and it wouldn't restart, so I held the power button in until the computer turned off. I then disconnected the monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 170T) because my computer won't boot with it attached(never figured that one out). I also plugged in a USB 2 device (external harddrive) connected to a USB2 PCI card. When the computer booted, my main harddrive was visible on the desktop. I ran diskwarrior on this drive which only had 12% corruption.

Memory gone from main hard drive

I imported a movie I video taped from my camera to my main hard drive and had 9 Gigs left. After I had finished my editing I was exporting it to and external drive and I when it got to about 34 % it said i had no more memory left but before I started exporting I checked the external and had 130 Gigs left so i look at my main drive and it had zero KB left whats going on and how do i get my gigs back ?

Where are the render files going? How big is system drive? Sounds like it's way too full to run properly. Rebooting should clear up some VM, but you'll probably have to dump something.

I installed all creative suite /cloud products on my main hard drive which has just failed. I can't

I installed all creative suite /cloud products on my main hard drive which has just failed. I can't open the apps on that drive. How can I deauthorize them when the drive is damaged beyond repair and unresponsive?

Kay5000 you are posting in a pubic forum.
As Ankit stated please try installing and activating Creative Cloud on your replacement computer/hard drive. If you have reached your maximum activation count then you will be prompted to deactivate all your activations. This will then allow you to activate on the replacement computer/hard drive.
For Creative Suite 6 I would recommend that you try installing as well. If you receive a message that you have exceeded your amount of allowable activations then please contact our support team directly. Our support team will be able to increase your activation count and allow you to install on the replacement computer/hard drive. You can contact our chat support at http://adobe.ly/yxj0t6 to make this request.

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