Partitioning External FantomDisk With Files Already On It
When I got my Mac Mini I got a 1TB external drive and configured Time Machine to work with it. I'm told that I can create a bootable clone to this drive with SuperDuper and then boot from it. SuperDuper suggests that I clone to a separate partition than the one used by Time Machine, which is what I would like to do.
The question is, can I carve out a new partition without trashing the file contents of the existing single partition? Any hints on how to proceed? I can copy the external drive contents to another system if I have to.
Depends on how large you Mini's hard drive is. Your TM backup volume should be at least twice the capacity of the Mini's hard drive. If the 1 TB drive just meets that, then you need to get another drive for the clone. Otherwise, figure out how much space you must reserve for TM, then the difference can be allocated for the clone.
You can partition on the fly using Disk Utility.
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. +(Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)+
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
OS X 10.5- About resizing disk partitions.
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Partition external drive with files already on it - ?
I just received a 465g glyph harddrive with some video files on it from our editor that i need to convert. The idea was that I was going to use the same drive since it has 444g of free space on it, but now i realize that the entire drive is formatted to ntfs. Is there any way i can partition this without erasing/having to copy the files first?
Thanks!By itself, MacOS X can read but cannot write to NTFS-format HD's. On the other hand, Windoze computers cannot read or write to Apple-format HD's. If you need to exchange files between the two using a HD, the only middle ground would be formatting in FAT32, which both can read and write. If you must keep the HD in NTFS format (company policy, etc.) you will need to install a third-party driver on MacOS X so it can write to that disk; for example, [Paragon makes a shareware option|http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac>.
You can erase the volume by selecting it (not the device) on Disk Utility, clicking on the Erase tab, choosing the appropiate format and applying.
You can repartition the drive (creating new volumes) by using a workaround because the Leopard Disk Utility has a bug when dealing with NTFS partitions. [Here's a writeup of what to do|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7783365#7783365].
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Recover external drive with file salvage
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Edit your projects.
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script o
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Transport takes a long time with 'file already in use' message in tp log
Hello,
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I am encountering the following problem when conducting an import on TQA system from a transport request done from DEV :
The import takes a very long time without being implemented, with the following message in the tp system log :
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In general, the pid does not even exist.
What could be the cause of this problem ?
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
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Thank you for your interest.
I've gone through SAP note 12746.
I deleted the log file /usr/sap/trans/tmp/TQA.LOB after making sure that pid 640 which appeared in the old message in the tp system log did not exist. But this resulted in the message :
'WARNING: Cannot remove /usr/sap/trans/tmp/TQA.LOB : No such file or directory' to appear once in the tp system log and for a very long time.
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Re-partitioning External HD with Leopard, originally formatted by Tiger
I'm about to install Leopard on a *Mac Pro.* First I plan to format (GUID) and partition an external firewire hard drive into three volumes -- +volume one+ for a bootable, cloned back-up of my current OS X Tiger 10.4.11 HD contents (via CCC) -- +volume two+ for a weekly (bootable) back-up of the OS X Leopard HD contents (again, via CCC) -- and +volume three+ for sound library storage.
I would of course be formatting this external hard drive using my current operating system (Tiger).
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I have recently bought a Hard Drive to store files that can no longer fit on my MacBook Pro. I also want to use this Hard Drive as a back up for my entire computer. Will backing up my computer delete the files i already have on my Hard Drive??????
It shouldn't.
If you are planning to use Time Machine, then no, it will never overwrite files that aren't part of an old Time Machine backup; only old data put there by Time Machine will ever be touched by Time Machine. -
Re Time Machine
I have an external hard drive with files I backed up manually over the past 2 years 1TB of memory.
I am finally taking the leap to use Time machine to back everything.
will I have to reformat that drive, thus wiping my previous back ups?
can I split it the drive in two partitions?
Also
as I have two separate Macbook Pro's- one older than the other.
OSX 10.68
the other is
OSX 10.75
can I back them up separately?
or even synch and merge files and folders etc? between the two?You CAN use a drive with files already on it to store Time Machine backups. But long term, that is not recommended. You do not need to reformat or re-partition the drive to do this. Once Time Machine Backups are established, you could remove the old files.
But do not delete Time Machines files with the Finder -- that can cause it to lose its place and lose everything.
With the cost of backup drives under US$100, it might be a better idea in the long run to get another drive. Best results from Time Machine is a drive about 3 times larger than the drive(s) you are backing up. -
Using an external drive with shared files (iPhoto, iTunes), attached to a Time Capsule, can the contents of the external drive be backed-up to the internal Time Capsule drive? Perhaps a RAID1 mirror to a partitioned Time Capsule? I understand that the Time Machine (software) cannot backup a networked drive (the external) and that Time Capsule (the router/wireless hard drive) does not have its own backup software... so it won't backup the connected drive. What I would like is an alternate solution for having an automated backup of a networked drive. A 2TB Time Capsule has more than enough space for Time Machine backups of my family of Macbooks, so I had hoped to mirror a 500GB external drive (with shared media files) to a portion of the Time Capsule internal hard drive. I assume this would require a partition of the Time Capsule drive. If not, would the sparse file from the various computers being backed up need to be copied to the external drive as part of the RAID1 setup? This seems like overkill for the Time Machine backup, but it would cover the media files.
The complexity with this idea is the software has to run from a Mac computer on your network.. so you need a Mac turned on, probably most of the day.
It isn't possible to partition the TC although you can create a image area.
The software would have to copy the material, that means all files to be copied, go from USB drive, back to the Mac, then back to the TC, and written to the drive. In other words you have just added Network congestion, although a proper incremental backup type software will not actually use a lot of capacity.
Finally it will be slow.. network drives are slower than internal drives. Well USB connected drive is much slower than the same drive connected directly to the computer.. and if the drive is connected directly to a computer it can be shared with the network.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4
Read carefully the speed of the USB drive plugged into the TC. -
I try to export my Imovie and I always get the error code"Unable to prepare project for publishing...File already open with write permission" it even does it when I am just trying to export to my external hard drive to save the file
Thanks!!! I had same error (with -49) and the mac had an external hard drive attached.. and it was doing a backup. Stopped, disconnected and the project exported!
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I have an external hard drive that I use to hold photos and other files on that no longer fit on my macbook. I also use the external hard drive for back ups set up with time machine. I don't believe I ever did anything to partition it, I've just always had separate folders (Photos, Music, etc) with one being called "Back Ups" (or Backups.backupdb) that my time machine back ups would automatically go into. Recently, I made the switch from my HDD in my macbook to a new SSD of the same size. I used the back ups on the external hard drive to restore all my content, which all worked out fine. My problem now is in using my external hard drive. When I plug it in, it no longer seems to be working with time machine. Also, I was organizing some files within the external hard drive, and when I dragged one into a folder, it took a while to load. Before, it was instantaneous moving a file already on the external hard drive to another location within it. Can anyone help me in getting the external hard drive to work with my new SSD? I don't want to delete any of the folders or back ups that are already on it, since that's the only place I have some of those files. Please let me know if you need anymore details. Thanks! (sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum)
First, she has to be logged in to the same iTunes account as she used on the old computer.
Second, when she plugs the iPhone in to iTunes, right click on the phone name and select transfer purchases.
Third, enter one contact and one calendar entry into the new computer's addressbook/calendar.
After that, she should be fine. -
Error while Creating External definition with WSDL file
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I have a seagate external hard drive with files transferred from my windows pc. If I will download NTFS Driver from seagate to my mac, could I install it safely without harming my files? I am afraid.. I might erase all my important files during the installation..
Thanks a lot! I have already downloaded Paragon Driver and it works well with seagate external hard drive. I am copying as of now my important files from my mac to it. However, I have only the trial version which will expire in 10 days. I don't have credit card to buy for it.
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I backup to an external hdd with Time Machine, when it ran out of space it did not delete old backups, now my internal hdd says its full when before it had heaps of space. I have searched for extra files but cant find any. Can anyone help, please.
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight as described here. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can also use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
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External HDD with Partitions not functioning in Yosemite
I was part of the Public Beta for Yosemite and didn't have any issues. But since upgraded to the full version of Yosemite, by external HDD with 2 partitions (one for files and one for Time Machine) has been acting strangely. I can still access (read/write) the partitions with my files on. But the Time Machine Partition doesn't mount and is greyed out in Disk Utility. I have tried to repair, erase, reformat the drive but none of these options work because it says that it can't access the drive (because it won't mount). I don't have access to a non-Yosemite Mac at the moment, but even so, I still need to use the HDD on my Yosemite Mac. Any suggestions?
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This leave me with a strange taste in my mouth!
Was the original drive faulty or not (Seagate didn't tell me what was they simply replaced it)?
Did Yosemite trash the dish - I will never know?
Why did the WD HD work and not the Seagate?
Life is too short - I moved on - but it did cost me over £100 to restore my backup facility for no apparent reason.
PS the Seagate replacement is now used for backing up a laptop - OS Windows Vista - no problems...........
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