Partition Transferee

I just recently downloaded the new 10.8 software, and all of my PowerPC applications have stopped working. I did some research and I have heard solutions ranging from to re-buy the programs and install again, to Mac has lost the licensing agreement so I can no loger use PowerPC products. All the applications are version 14.2.5 but they are also 32 bit, but they wroked just fine before I downloaded 10.8, but I have a feeling they will never work again for my mac side.
However, I do have Windows 8 on a separate partition, and I was wondering if the programs would work on Windows 8(64 bit) since they are 32 bit. I also want to know if there is a way to transphere a program from one partition to the next without having to buy the programs again.

Yes, Lion and now Mountain Lion does not include the "Rosetta" software that Apple included into its operating systems when it migrated from the PowerPC CPU to Intel so that most existing PowerPC applications could continue to operate transparently.
The most optimum solution would be a version of your PowerPC software that was rewritten for Intel. Some software publishers have also changed the feature set in these "upgrades" making it a Hobson's choice.
An example of a program rewritten for Intel that did not change its feature set and/or operating experience at all is Intuit's March 2012 release of Quicken 2007 for Lion (which also operates on Mt. Lion). An example of the Hobson's choice is Apple's Final Cut which although it now operates on Lion/Mt. Lion, many users complain that this updated version lacks certain features which they have come to expect in the earlier versions.
A related solution is alternative programs that will access your data files, modify them and save them in Mountain Lion. An example of this are the free alternatives to Microsoft's Office suite that run in Mt. Lion.
The next solution is if your computer has the ability to boot Snow Leopard, and it would appear yours does, then to partition the hard drive or add an external hard drive and install Snow Leopard (with the optional install of Rosetta) into it. You can then "dual-boot" (similar to Bootcamp) into either operating system and have access to your PowerPC apps while in Snow Leopard, but not have concurrent access to Mt. Lion features: it is one or the other. You would also have the option to revert to Snow Leopard exclusively, but it appears that you want or need Mt. Lion features.
Installing Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels while in Mt. Lion would give you that concurrent access:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
I do not know what you are referring to when you say version 14.2.5. What PowerPC programs do you want to use?
Running Windows will only work with applications that have a Windows version. For most of the programs that have this alternative, you are required to separately purchase the Windows version; although some software publishers may give you a discount as an owner of the Mac version.

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I had purchased from the Apple store in France a portable hard drive Iomega eGO USB 2.0/FireWire ov 250 Go capacity (P/N 31713900; Model: RPHD-C; S/N: FEAJ02011V)
Originally formatted HFS+, it would mount on any of my Mac desktops with Firewire, easily on the iMac using USB and with great difficulty on the iBook with the two USB plugs (together). It did not mount on any windows PC I had used for tests (so reformatting it FAT(32) or NTFS was *not an option).
I had reformatted it FAT32 using the iMac under mac OS 10.5 for use on multiple computers including Windows PC's. The drive would now accept to:
Mount on the iMac and iBook using Firewire
Mount on the iMac using USB, but it will NOT:
1 - Mount on the iBook using USB, nor
2 - Mount on any Windows PC using USB
The solution was found at the office with our IT helpdesk.
Whether I format it FAT 32 or NTFS (using the Paragon NTFS for mac OS X 10.5) on my iMac under OS 10.5, including when I do the same on another external drive than the Iomega, the PC would not recognise it while it would always mount on a Mac and it was even impossible on the PC to reformat it. The solution is (at least in windows world), you need to (1) format the drive, AND (2) partition the drive, even if this involves creating a single partition. Using Disk Utility of the Mac, I had only formatted the drive and not partitioned it into a single partition and Disk utility did not request that from me. The drive as prepared was perfectly usable on any Mac anyway.
The cure was to go back to the imac which had formatted it, mount it (it mounts), (1) reformat and (2) partition, using a single partition.
Then, the drive would instantly be recognised on the PC as a F drive, whether under FAT 32 or under NTFS.
The blame is in me and on the Apple Drive utility which did not help me (trust it would have been worse in windows world, but this is a bad mark on disk utility)
My suggestion to Apple would be that Disk Utilisty should tell us, once we have formatted a drive (HFS+, FAT 32 or NTFS using Parangon) that we are not done yet and still must create the partition(s), even if we only need one partition.
HTH

Hi Michel-Ange
You are talking to other user like yourself here and not Apple. If you wish to make a suggestion to Apple, I suggest you do it at this site - http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Allan

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HT201250 Can I partition my external hard drive and use one partion for time machine and the other one for data that i may want to use in different computers?

I have this doubt. I've just bought an external drive, especifically a Seagate GoFlex Desk 3 tb.
I want to know if it is recomendable to make a partion exclusively for time machine and let another one so I can put there music, photos, videos, etc that I should need to use or copy to another computer.
May half and half, 1.5 tb for time machine and 1.5 tb for data.
I have an internal hard drive of 500 GB (499.25 GB) in my macbook pro.
Any recommendation?

As I said, yes. Be sure your Time Machine partition has at least 1 TB for backups.
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I have a small business with just a few employees and we currently share all of our business files which are hosted on my Macbook Pro. These files include an Aperture library, an iPhoto library, and a bunch of just plain old files, including a fairly large Filemaker database. I like having these files on my computer so that I can access them quickly (without lag), and this is particularly important for the database and the photo libraries. And since I am often working 'after hours' its easy for me to be on the move (even if its just a move to my couch!) and still have quick and easy access to the work files.
However, we're having some major problems with file permissions. Sometimes (and seemingly randomly) employees can't open files because they don't have permission' and often I need to reset the permissions on files my employees create in order to open them myself. iPhoto needs to "repair" the photo library just about any time a different user opens it up. It looks like we just lost a couple hours worth of work yyesterday tagging photos in iPhoto since they mysterously dissapeared when I opened iPhoto this morning.
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So the thought came to me, why don't I partition my hard drive and use half of it for all the work files? Could I set it up so permissions are ignored on that partitions as is reccommened for the external HD solution? Are there other solutions, or pitfalls with this solution that I'm not considering?

ArisaemaDracontium wrote:
I'd like to use the method described in the following link. Can I do this with a partition instead of an external drive?:
Yes.
Can I partition my drive without whiping it entirely and then having to restore everything?
Probably. See #3 in Using Disk Utility.
Also, the "Alternative Method" mentions using a disk image. My experience with disk images is limited to those temporary "disks" used when installing new software that are erased when put in the trash or the computer restarts. Is there such thing as a perminent disk image?
Yes. You can create and keep them anywhere. They're kind of like a disk-within-a-disk. They have their own format, directories, etc. For example, some folks use encrypted disk images for their sensitive files.
There are a few considerations:
Only one user can access it at a time, so if you use Fast User Switching and one user has it open, others won't be able to use it.
You'll need to put it in each user's Login Items so it will be mounted at login, per the article.
The contents will not be backed-up while it's mounted.
(But, in many cases the iPhoto Library won't be backed-up by Time Machine while the iPhoto app is open, no matter where it is.)

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Hello, I would like to know how to delete the yellow partition named "Other" (in italian "Altro") that appears when I connect all my devices to the laptop. This partition in Ipad comes with 4 Gb that for an instrument of 16 seems a bit too also because it far exceeds anything else. So far not been able to find useful information and is a very common problem. Thank you.

Thank you very much, but it's not so simple. I read somewhere in this same forum that:
I quote: "That large of "other" is corrupt data. Try restoring your phone from backup first, followed by syncing your content back to the phone. If restoring from backup does not fix things, you will have to restore as a new device to get rid of it. There is no way to directly delete it, other than restoring your phone."
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Will the machine run into problems later if a portion of the OS (i.e., during an update) gets installed outside of the first 8GB of the disk?
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I believe Duane is correct. Even with Mac OS 9, you can run fine as long as all OS components used during startup are within the first 8GB of space. However, (even with Mac OS 9) as soon as something used during startup ends up beyond that limit, you will get open firmware or a gray screen at startup. The Mac OS X does not allow the installation target to exceed the limit as a preventative measure, not because it won't work at all.
The best "non-technical" explanation I have heard as to why, is this... The IDE hardware (and its driver) can only "see" the first 8GB of space during the initial start up process before the OS is loaded. Once start up completes, control is handed to the OS, which can see the entire drive. Therefore, apps have no problem running from beyond the limit. Only components needed before the hand-off is constrained to the 8GB limit.
FYI - On my iMac and 120GB drive, 7.78 GB (as shown in a Finder window) is the precise point where the Mac OS X Installer allows the volume to be the install target. "Precise" to with a few hundred MB's.

Error while creating partition table

Hi frnds i am getting error while i am trying to create a partition table using range
getting error ORA-00906: missing left parenthesis.I used the following statement to create partition table
CREATE TABLE SAMPLE_ORDERS
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PARTITION SO99Q3 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-OCT-1999’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’),
PARTITION SO99Q4 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-JAN-2000’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’),
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PARTITION SO00Q2 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-JUL-2000’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’),
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More than one of them. Try this instead:
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I am trying to create a table with 2 partitions but am getting the following error.
Can someone please help out as to what is missing here..!!!
PARTITION BY RANGE (to_char(to_date(log_date,'YY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS'), 'DD'))
ERROR at line 7:
ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
create table dummy_logs
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tablespace my_tspace pctfree 4
partition by range (to_char(to_date(log_date,'yy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'dd'))
( partition day01 values less than ('02'),
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Nopes Adith, It didn't helped.
I specifically need the whole clause
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and also, it works fine when I query it through dual.
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TO
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Restarting "SYSMAN"."IMPORT000042":
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Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 487274680] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 487684320 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 488953856 - 509388800] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI System Partition
   2          409640       487684319   232.4 GiB   AF00 MacLandia-new
   3       487684320       488953855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       488953856       635437055   69.8 GiB    0700 Winlandia-N
   5       977496064      1875384319   428.1 GiB   0700 scratch
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Maclandia               249.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Winders-New             75.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data scratch                 459.7 GB   disk0s5
Output from "sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s3 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C"
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200
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3     1151635456   1152904991 ab Mac OS X Boot
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Format: Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Owners Enabled: -
Number of Folders: -
Capacity: 274.55 GB
Available: -
Used: -
Number of Files: -
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Should I clone the hard drive in the target disk mode??
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Hi Brad and welcome to Discussions,
Hi John,
A later done partitioning to add additional partitions to a harddisk alters the position of the BootCamp partition in the partition table so that the Windows Bootloader can not 'find' the Windows partition.
With Windows XP it helped to simply edit the Boot.Ini file and point it to the WIndows partition.
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