Setting up OSX after installing a new SSD and moving HDD to optical bay

Hey all,
I know there are a tonne of other posts similar to this one in here, but I couldn't find the specific answers I was looking for.
Soon I'm going to remove my optical bay and put my current HDD in it's place, and install a brand new SSD where the original HDD once was. I'm comfortable with the hardware installation but am wary about what to expect on first power up afterwards.
I would like to ideally run OSX Mavericks and all of my apps (everything from Notepad to Premiere Pro) from the SSD, and leave all of my data on the HDD. I have an early 2011 13" Macbook Pro, model number A1278.
- When I first turn the computer on after the hardware switcheroo, what can I expect to see? How do I re-install OSX Mavericks onto the new drive? Am I right in thinking that Mavericks is merely an upgrade rather than a whole new OSX and that I will need to install Lion and then upgrade to Mavericks rather than just reboot immediately to Mavericks?
- How can I then remove Mavericks from the original HDD?
- Exactly which files do I need to move to completely relocate the apps to the new drive? Is it as simple as moving the entire applications folder over, or are there hidden files dotted all over the place that I need to consider also?
Thanks in advance,
Adam

Adam,
if your current HDD is a SATA III (6.0 Gb/s maximum throughput) drive, then you might find that you’ll have problems with it in the Optibay position. If this is the case, you’d probably be better off putting your SATA III drive into an external enclosure, and purchasing a SATA II (3.0 Gb/s maximum) drive to install in the Optibay.
If you have a SATA-to-USB or SATA-to-FireWire adapter, you can connect your SSD externally and format it with Disk Utility. After that, you could use a cloning utility to copy the contents of your internal HDD to your SSD (presuming that the SSD is at least as large as the amount of space currently used on your internal HDD), and then boot from the external SSD using Startup Manager to make sure that everything works well on it; that will save you from having to make sure that all of the scattered hidden files have been migrated. Once you’ve confirmed that your apps run well from the SSD, you can then install the SSD and move the HDD to wherever it’s going. An advantage of keeping Mavericks on your HDD is that you can boot from it if needed, e.g. should your SSD develop a problem.

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I installed a new SSD drive in my computer and now Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium says I don't have a license. I have license. It was very expensive. I am disabled now, and I need this software working. Adobe Acrobat has been a primary tool for accommodating memory problems after a brain injury. (A car ran me down while I was out getting exercise.) I installed the SSD because I needed my management of PDF files to run faster. I called tech support for help when the software first stopped working, but they needed me to give them a number from my original disks. Because of my disability, I've been having someone come in to clean, and the shelves where I kept my software packages were cleared. I've been hunting for them ever since, but I can't look for them myself for very long at a time. Today I finally found them, but now I can't seem to contact tech support. What happened? I don't want to delete my old files because I need the setup to remain unchanged, because I don't do well with changes. I think all I should need is to have someone located the license file on drive E: and move it to wherever it is needed on the SSD drive, but I don't know what to look for.

Tech support is not normally available on weekends. You should contact them as soon as the weekend passes and pick up where you left off with them.

After installing the new Yosemite OS on my iMac I can no longer send email. I can receive email, but not send. I use gmail and can send email on the gmail (google) site, but not on "mail" on my iMac. Any others with this problem? What should we do?

After installing the new Yosemite OS on my iMac I can no longer send email. I can receive email, but not send. I use gmail and can send email on the gmail (google) site, but not on "mail" on my iMac. Any others with this problem? What should we do?

My gmail, which is correctly configured for Mail with gmail SMTP and Google IMAP, works for awhile on Mail, which I leave open while working on other applications. But several times a day I get msg from Google: "We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account" . . . and requiring me to verify my account details, re-enter passwords, confirm security settings (or change them from "disable" to "enable less secure methods" and so on). In Mail I also have tried "taking all accounts online", and re-entering my gmail password inside Mail account settings. These steps successfully re-set comms between gmail and Mail ... for awhile, then it happens again. Enough occurrences over a work day that I just quit Mail and revert to accessing gmail directly. Apple Care advisor and an Apple knowledge base article say that Apple can't deal with this, as gmail is third-party app, and they refer me to gmail, and so far I've found nothing helpful there.
From today I also have several instances of a window saying "Mail has unexpectedly closed" and asking me to Re-open it.
I also use Yahoo mail, which stops working with Mac Mail at the same time as gmail, but I do not receive notices to re-verify from Yahoo.
I recently upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. The Mail problem happened occasionally with Mavericks but is far more frequent with Yosemite.

Setting up a new SSD and HDD on iMac with separate libraries (itunes & aperture)

Hello.
I'm having a major problem with my iMac (July 2010 27" 2.8ghz). I recently operated on this guy and installed a 2TB HDD and a 256GB SSD. I backed up my previous setup using CCC onto a separate external HDD. I installed a "fresh" version of OSX Mountain Lion onto the SSD and used Migration Assitant to transfer my applications and user settings. I then copied over the itunes folder and photos library folder over to the HDD. However, I cannot access the libraries of either using the SSD. I hold option down while opening either Aperture or Itunes and I am not allowed to select either of the libraries. Infact the iTunes one is grayed out and the folder holding the Aperture Library is locked (Red circle with a white dash).
Ultimately what I want to do is have the SSD provide the system and the applications and have my music, videos, and photos on the HDD. I have been reading all sorts of boards but I can't get anything to work. I'll completely start from scratch if needed.
BTW the SSD is so fast on this machine.
Thanks in advance for all of your help.
Matt

The original folders for iTunes and Aperture Photo Library were marked with special Access Control List permissions. CCC picked these up during the duplication process to the HDD. When you put them back on the SSD, you likely used Finder, which either corrupted these settings or omitted them entirely. Now, iTunes and Aperture expect these ACL settings and block you without them.
To fix this issue, you need to reset the ACL on these folders back to factory defaults. Disk Utility cannot help as it works on things outside $HOME.
Reboot, holding down the option key. You will see the SSD, the HDD, and probably two 10.8 recovery partitions. Pick either recovery partition.
Once you are in Recovery, launch the Terminal from the Utility menu.
In Terminal, type resetpassword. This will launch a dialog box that shows both the SSD and HDD drives. Click on the SSD.
At the bottom of the dialog, you will see the reset ACL section. Click to set ACL back to default settings. This is only applied to specific files in your home directory that already have ACL settings. You are not resetting any passwords.
You are done. Exit terminal, and reboot from the Apple menu.
Test iTunes and Aperture on their respective folders.
This should solve your access issues on the SSD.
You can identify files or folders with ACL settings from the terminal with the ls(1) command.
See if the file has an ACL setting
$ ls -al
You are looking for the trailing '+' in the permission field.
Now peek at the specific ACL settings
$ ls -ale
You should use the ditto(1) command for low-level directory structure copies in the future.
$ ditto /Volumes/HDD/Users/homedir/Music /Users/homedir

Help with Installing a new SSD on my x201

I just purchased a crucial 256gb realssd C300 for my 2month old x201. What is the best way to install the new SSD. I have read that a simple cloning may not be the best approach. Can I do a clean install by using the boot disk I made when I first got the x201 along with the recovery media disks? I searched for a thread on this but haven't been able to find any.
Thanks in advance.

Your old HDD should be already aligned, so cloning is not a problem.
Installing seven from a vanilla media or from the lenovo original media should lead also in aligned partition(s).
You can just check the alignement with Paragon align utility and eventually and you can align after the installation process, whatever method you have choosed to install.

I cannot access an older time machine backup after installing an new hard drive.

After installing a new hard drive I tried to access my older backups in time machine but cannot. They are there but do not light up and allow me to access them, or select them.

First, if you're worried about the possibility of losing a backup set, then your backup strategy is inadequate. You will certainly lose those backups, no matter what you do, when the drive hosting them fails, as it will eventually. If you take data safety seriously, you should have at least two complete, independent backups of all your data, one of which is off-site at all times. I suggest you make a second backup now, before doing anything else.
The action I suggested won't delete all the snapshots; only the selected one -- unless something goes wrong, which is always possible. Without adequate backups, nothing you do is safe.

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