Partition download, Partition problem

So I get the "cannot move files" error when trying to partition my hard drive.
I did a full defrag, same error, then I went through and manually defragged the files left, same error, so then I went back and optimized the drive, sameeeee error. I'm at a loss as to what to do now.

These are all the files left fragmented, should I just back up my hard drive and reformat?

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After creating partition, problems start

I use Boot Camp Asst. and create a 32 GB partition. at the end of the process, I'm told to "hit the Restart key or hold the power key for a few seconds." Since i have no restart key on my MacBook, I hold down the power key. Then the system turns off. I turn it on again, and reboot. I get an error - osx shut down unexpectedly, do i want to report to apple. whatever. the space i allocated on the partition is gone from my free space, but if I go into BCA, it doesn't seem to know that i've already created a partition. things are screwy and i have to reboot from the Leopard disk and use Disk Utility to repair the disk.
So, how do I get around this? I really want to use boot camp.

I have it all fixed (except that the Windows XP system won't completely shut down or restart into any startup volume...I have to hold down the power button until shutdown, then start by pressing the start button).
AppleCare tech, on two different calls, spoke of a bug in OS X (10.5.2) that is causing the partition problem described by me and others in this thread.
The solution (assuming that you don't have a Windows partition yet) is to install OS X (10.5.1). Don't do any software updates to 10.5.1 until you've completed the Windows install using Boot Camp Assistant.
Remember to have backups.
I didn't exactly follow the solution directly. I reinstalled Tiger 10.4.11. Then I installed 10.5.1 as an upgrade. The reason for this is that I was not warned by AppleCare tech that a 10.5.2 install using "erase and install" would delete the entire iLife '06 suite. I lost iLife '06. That's why I reverted to Tiger before attempting the Leopard and Boot Camp installations.

IMAP Alternate partition problem

IMAP partition problem
IMAP is set so all boxes are on a separate partition ..
and until recently, worked fine.
one day (shortly after 10.4.9 upgrade)
after "rebuilding" an IMAP inbox from Mail.app
everything went down.. and came up again with all IMAP boxes other than INBOX appearing gone
but what happened is that all the accounts suddenly reverted (?) to existing on the default partition (var/spool/imap)
and although the alternate partition still exists and all settings reflect such..
I can't get the accounts back to seeing that partition.
cyradmn does not 'see' boxes on the alt partition.
thus, I cant retrieve some huge folders of stored mail.
in addition, the accounts are unable to create any folders on the current (default) partition and only "inbox" exists (no Sent or Drafts, etc..).
(the error returned : System I/O error)
mail works, can send and receive, .. but how to restore accounts to the alternate partition ??
Ive tried shutting off the account and deleting the user mailbox (on default partition) and turning back on the user.. still creates on the default partition
the accounts still show (in SA and NetInfo record) set to alternate partition..
and imapd.conf still has the partition entry ..
what's up ??

Thanks for the responses ..
yes, actually, I have tried reconstruct from mailbfr (options -o and -m) as well as via cyradm.. and SA
either option succeeds at reconstructing all the boxes fine, and permissions appear to be fine as well..
drwxr-xr-x 4 cyrusima mail - 136B Jun 3 2006 mailstore
mailbfr reports both partitions being operated on ..
my config also appears OK, its the same as has been working flawlessly for over a year :
admins: cyrusimap localadmin
configdirectory: /var/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
unixhierarchysep: yes
altnamespace: yes
servername: mail.mydomain.com
sievedir: /usr/sieve
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
lmtpdowncasercpt: 1
tlscertfile: /etc/certificates/mail.mydomain.com.crt
logrollingdays: 0
logrolling_daysenabled: false
tlskeyfile: /etc/certificates/mail.mydomain.com.key
imapauth_crammd5: yes
imapauthgssapi: yes
popauthclear: no
enable_pop: no
tlscommonname: mail.mydomain.com
tlsserveroptions: use
imapauthlogin: yes
partition-mailstore: /Volumes/path/to/alt-partition
I did notice an odd thing though..
although the boxes are being read from /var/spool/imap
and accounts show "default" partition (in SA)
when I try to create a box (via Mail.app) in IMAP acct..
it fails .. can't so it ..
and the IMAP log shows
imaps[22176]: IOERROR: creating directory /Volumes/path/to/alt-partition: Permission denied
so it appears to want to write to the right place and can't ..
but still reads from the wrong place.
something is amiss !!
where to look next ?

Hello - downloading app problems - this phone can only be usedto download apps in uk or something - think i am linking to the us apps - how do i link to the uk apps?

hello - downloading app problems - this phone can only be usedto download apps in uk or something - think i am linking to the us apps - how do i link to the uk apps?
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Depending on the size of the app or the connection speed when using Wi-Fi it could take a little longer to download. You can also try to download it onto your computer, might be faster, and sync it to the phone after that.
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I have about 80,000 photos on my Mac. I wanted to use icloud. I needed to download the newer version so, for 14.99 I downloaded. Problem is, now I have lost my photos! I tried 3x to but it always stops working. HELP!

I have about 80,000 photos on my Mac. I wanted to use icloud. I needed to download the newer version so, for 14.99 I downloaded. Problem is, now I have lost my photos! I tried 3x to but it always stops working. HELP!

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I have been experiencing download speed problems with my Apple TV2 for a while. The performance was so bad that I couldn't buy or rent movies from Apple TV, because it would take hours to even start the download. I wasn't sure if the problem was with my ISP (Comcast), the modem, or the wireless router.
I just logged in to my wireless router (Cisco Linksys E300) and changed the following two settings:
Network Mode = Wireless-N Only
Channel Width = 20 Mhz Only
After restarting my Apple TV2, movie streaming is now perfect. It took less than one minute to start the streaming of a recently purchased movie.
I recalled reading some time ago that a Network Mode which allows switching between B, G and N wireless modes can cause problems with streaming. Perhaps each time switching occurs, the Apple TV has to renegotiate with the iTunes Store. I'm not sure that the "Channel Width" setting is necessary or relevant, but since I'm happily streaming again, I don't really care.
I hope that this helps others resolve this problem.

If you have home sharing enabled on the Apple TV and an IOS running on the same network you can use the remote app. Otherwise, you will need to purchase a new remote.

Tried bit alas did not help. It's too much of a coincidence that I got download then problem immediately after.Still think its Apples fault.Only about 4 of every 10 e mails affected!!!!!

Tried bit alas did not help. It's too much of a coincidence that I got download then problem immediately after.Still think its Apples fault.Only about 4of every 10 e mails affected!!!!!

I'd suggest you follow up in the thread you started in regards to the problem rather than starting new topics:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24982409#24982409
If you start a new topic part way through discussing an issue, people don't know what you're referring to. It's also consider impolite to post all in caps in Internet forums, as using caps is considered to be shouting.
Regards.

Lenovo G550 Service Partition problem

Hello,
I've bought Lenovo G550 (without OS) and by mistake deleted my Service Partition, which contains files for OneKey recovery utility. I've searched forum, but hasn't found anything exact.
As I've searched, I've found out few things:
- If I change any partition size, OneKey is no longer working
- Only service support can fix this problem, in some countries I've gotta pay
I'd like to ask you for help. If there is any chance to DIY (do it yourself), just by downloading needed files and creating new partitions with required space.
I'd really appreciate if someone was there to assist, or just providing some more information about this problem.
Sorry for my English.
Thanks a lot !

there are about 113 backup wsi file, the one with number 34 seems damaged. for factory backups there's another issue with it. did you make any changes on volumes? cause if you did, one key recover and one key recover button will stop working.
in normal circumstances, eisa part is not visible. i'm not sure if it works if you copy files to usb.
if windows vista installed, run one-key recover 6.0.
already got backups, skip "back up" otherwise click that.
select full backup, quick compression and next >
choose the path or leave it default and next >
and start.
after back up ends, restart the application one-key recover 6.0
click "create recovery disc" and next >
select the backup you have and next>
this screen will tell you how much cd or dvd you need, min 2 dvd or 8cd, max 7 dvd or 28 cd. and next>
insert the blank cds or dvds into driver and wait until done.
you may need the system image, you can lose your back-up cd, or cds may not working after a while, so , i still recommend that you keep the original copy or more than one backup.
size of recovery cd depens on how much size of disk space you use. its up 2-7 dvd or 4-28 cd.

Time Machine partition problem

I have TM installed on a Maxtor One Touch III (1.5TB) drive. I partitioned the drive into two, one of which is dedicated to TM.
*That* partition originally had "invalid node structure" problems that Disk Utility could not repair and DiskWarrior had insufficient space to rebuild the directory. At this point, whenever I plug the drive into my MacBook Pro, I get a warning message that I can copy files *from* the TM partition but cannot write to it.
I am able, however, to copy to and from the *other* partition on the same drive. Therefore, I don't know if the problem here is largely hardware or something else.
In any case, my questions:
1) Do I have any other options to fixing whatever is ailing the TM partition? If I have to, I don't mind reformatting and starting all over again but I don't have another drive with the space capacity to clone my TM back-ups and therefore, preserve them. If I have to reformat, I lose all my back-ups which defeats the purpose of running TM.
2) If I do reformat, should I do the entire drive (both partitions) and then start over from scratch?
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Ok, I report that this seems to have been resolved (maybe it will help others...)
The problem was the firmware of the drive (LaCie Porsche P'9230). It needs a firmware update that can be found on LaCie's support/download page. I have updated and the problem has not recurred (..yet..).
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Boot camp partition problems. What to do?

Hello guys !
I really need some help ! Im a totally amateur with mac and still pretty new to it and anyways and im pretty noob with these things, so dont go harsh on me.
So I have bootcamp, windows 7 installed in my macbook pro retina 15' and everything was good, untill I tried to resize the partition of the boot camp!!! I had only 4gb available on the windows so I wanted more space. I went to the disk utility and created some space for the windows by shrinking the mac's hard a bit and then switched to windows and tried to do it by a program called '' AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager'' and the machine restarted and everything seem to go well untill almost at the end of the installation the problem occured some kind of an error I dont remember anymore and then I restarted my computer and pressed the alt button and I had still there the windows option the available, but when I enter it nothing happens and then occurs text '' system operating file missing '' ??? So what can I do? Have I lost all of my files that were on windows 7? is there anyway to get them back and if so how? Please guys I really need help, I have very important files that I need ASAP !!! I might lose my job, if I will lose them, so please help me ! I havent done any back up to the windows? Is there anything I could do anymore to get the partition and the files back? I tried to repair the partition from disk utility, but this what happened :
Verify and Repair volume “disk0s4”Checking file system** /dev/disk0s4
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 46fa80
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Please guys help me out ! what can I do? I tried to google something but really couldnt find anything,
Thnx for u in advance!

You have to install the drivers yourself with either a 10.6 install dvd or from a download choice when starting the Boot Camp installation.
After installing Windows, install Mac-specific drivers and other software for Windows using your Mac OS X installation disc.
The Mac OS X disc installs drivers to support Mac components, including AirPort, built-in iSight camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function keys on an Apple keyboard.
The Mac OS X disc also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item.
OR
If you can’t find the CD, DVD, or external disk with the support software you downloaded, open Boot Camp Assistant and download the software again.
You can quit the assistant after you save the software without creating a new partition.
Insert the CD or DVD or connect the external disk with the Windows support software.
The installer may start automatically. If it doesn’t, do one of the following:
If the support software is on the same USB flash drive as the Windows 7 installer, double-click the setup.exe file in the WindowsSupport directory.

AT105 "shared storage" external partition problem

I'm not entirely sure what the problem is exactly but I can only download and install programs/videos on the shared storage partition of my tablet. I have about 2 gb free space on my internal storage, 3gb free on my SD card and yet I'm limited to the 200mb free space f the "shared storage" under Settings/Apps.
I've already tried moving to tablet option on all the apps but it still shows only 200mb free of the 2.5gb total of the shared storage.
My question is, how do I get rid of this partition or how can I download to my internal storage or SD card. No matter what I do, anything I download or install is sent to the shared storage. I have a ton of free space available that I can't access.
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From my knowledge Android apps would be installed on internal flash memory.
You can use some apps like app2SD in order to move the single app to SD card.
But not all apps would support this.
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Fusion Drive New Partition Problem

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That 2.2 TB partition is how Apple solved the problem of Bootcamp not working with 3 TB drives. The one parition is split so the first partition fits within the allowable partition size of 2.2 TB, needed for the Windows installer to work. Partition 0 is then split again to allow the bootcamp partition to be added at the end of partition 0:
I had the same problem as Maxia, with my first attempt installing Windows failing and getting the two partitions. I got to step 3.4 in the Boot Camp installation guide. After formatting the BOOTCAMP partition, then clicking on Next, the Windows installer said it could not find the specified partition. I went back to Mac OS, deleted the Boot Camp partition using Boot Camp Assistant, did it again from the start, and got the same results. I finally got it to work by rebooting using command R, to get into OSX recovery mode, choosing Disk Utility and running Repair Disk Permissions on the OSX partition. I then rebooted to the Windows install procedure, and everything worked as it should. I'm not 100% sure that repairing the permissions is what really did it; maybe just exiting the Windows installer, rebooting to Windows, and running the installer again would do the trick.
I also had a problem getting Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows support software; as an alternative, you can download them directly from the Apple website at http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/downloads/. I also had problems getting the Nvidia graphics driver to load correctly in Windows, but on the third manual installation, it worked. All this should have gone a lot smoother, but in the end Windows 7 looks fabulous in the iMac 27" monitor, and the iMac 680MX graphics card is quite impressive. This is the way to do serious gaming on an iMac, with the only cost the Windows software, which is just under $100 on Amazon, for either Windows 7 or Windows 8 (the OEM System Builder Pack).

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I believe you are supposed to format the partition labeled BOOTCAMP to NTFS from the installer. It is stated in the BootCamp suport guide.

Hard Drive Partition Problems

I recently installed a new HD in my iMac DV SE. I thought I'd be clever and make three partions, 2 8GB OS drives (one is blank - I was thinking about Linux, but too lazy to do it and don't need to right now) and one ~100GB for my music, files, etc. that I can share without too much worry.
The problem I'm having is that Tiger uses a lot of virtual memory and if my computer is on for awhile, or I'm doing multiple things, my OSX drive fills up with VM (I think) and I get the "Your HD is almost full" (the error that originally drove me to buy a new HD)
Of course quitting out of programs and restarting fixes the problem, but sometimes my computer slows down so much I find myself using that magic little button on the side and restarting it (how bad is this really?)
What I want to do is take the extra OS partition and combine it with the other OS partition so that the OS can use as much VM as it pleases. Can I do this without wiping the whole drive?
Also, if I have to wipe the whole drive, what is the best way to store my data so that I can put it back how it was, maybe an image file (never done this before)? Maybe a link to a site that explains it or something?
I know that buying more memory would also solve this problem, and I plan on doing this in the future, but I'm a poor college student, so that isn't an option for awhile
Thanks,
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Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and then type or paste in /private/etc/ as the folder's location. Make two copies of the file rc inside that folder, and put one copy on the desktop, and the other in the Documents folder of your home folder. Open the copy in the Documents folder with a text editor and locate the text swapdir inside. After the =, replace /private/var/vm/ with /Volumes/volumename/vm/ . Replace volumename with the name of the the partition; this requires that the partition's name doesn't contain spaces or other special characters. Once done, replace the existing file and restart the machine to change the location of the VM swap files.
If you encounter any problems after doing this, you can restore the original rc file by restarting your machine from the Mac OS X install disk and opening the Terminal application. Enter the following: "mv /Users/yourname/Desktop/rc /Volumes/diskname/private/etc/rc" without the quotes, and after replacing yourname with the short name of your user account and diskname with the name of your normal partition. If either contains spaces, you will need to enclose the whole path in quote marks.
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Boot camp / partition problems, hard drive damaged?

I was in the middle of using boot camp to allocate 13gb to windows when my macbook pro crashed (the crash screen with the turn off and restart text came up), then when i restarted and ran boot camp it said that my harddrive couldn't be partitioned and to repair it using disk utility. I ran that, but the repair disk is greyed out, the repair permissions doesn't have any effect and when i clicked verify disk it says;
"Disk utility stopped verifying macintosh hd because the following error was encountered filesystem verify or repair failed"
and the log is
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 15200369 instead of 11898629)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
Can you help me out? It's essential i get a number of windows products running.

Ok, that seemed to work for part of the problem.
It repaired the disk but whenever I run boot camp it keeps throwing up that crash screen and i have to go through the process of repairing the disk again.
I've ran boot camp with no other programs running in the background or open and without disturbing it while it's allocating the partition and it still crashes.
Any ideas how to get it working?
Heres the crash report
Fri May 30 00:22:56 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0031D1B3): "hfs_lock: locking against myself!"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.3.13/bsd/hfs/hfs_cnode.c:986
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x3d2476d8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x457024 0x3d24770c 0x13321a 0x0)
0x3d247728 : 0x31d1b3 (0x483cc0 0x0 0x3d247758 0x1f0d72)
0x3d247758 : 0x31db5b (0x5399ae0 0x3 0x0 0x4384804)
0x3d247848 : 0x1f2e30 (0x3d247860 0x0 0x3d247888 0x1f4d49)
0x3d247888 : 0x1da8f0 (0xa1f25a0 0x4a09ca4 0x38ed58 0x0)
0x3d2478a8 : 0x1da95d (0xa1f25a0 0x0 0x246 0x49e1500)
0x3d2478c8 : 0x3346c6 (0xa1f25a0 0x68000 0x57bbee0 0x49e1500)
0x3d247bc8 : 0x334a22 (0x4a09ca4 0x17f7fff 0x3e616c 0x0)
0x3d247c58 : 0x32bc00 (0x4384804 0xf8000000 0x17 0x4a09ca4)
0x3d247cd8 : 0x1f5039 (0x3d247d08 0x0 0x3d247cf8 0x0)
0x3d247d38 : 0x1e7e0c (0x4381c70 0x80006802 0x3d247ee0 0x0)
0x3d247f78 : 0x3dbe77 (0x49e1500 0x4a09ba0 0x4a09be4 0xb0080d78)
0x3d247fc8 : 0x19f084 (0x46543a0 0x0 0x1a20b5 0x46543a0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xb0080d88
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: DiskManagementTo
Mac OS version:
9C31
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)

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