SSD time

Hi All; I have a June04 G5 DP1.8. Currently I have it maxed out with a Geforce7800GS video card(good move people, sped it up like RAM and HDD did, maybe more)max RAM 4 GB, and am running two 7200rpm 32mb cache HDD. I am thinking that I will change the startup drive for an SSD just big enough for OS plus a little and do all storage and backing up on the second drive(HDD). The sata connector is 1.5 GBsec I believe, so how do I determine what SSD is fast enough and which ones are beyond realistic usability? I don't want to waste money I just want to get every last nano second of performance I can. BTW why do HDD's talk about seek times and SSD's talk about read and write times? Where can I find formulas that convert sata controller speeds,seek times, read/write times into the same language?

Mechanical drives talk in terms of ms (millisecond) while SSD are ns (nano, which is closer to processor latency).
SATA 1.0 will limit most SSD of course, which now have 250MB/sec r/w times.
OWC has only recently deemed to put the latest 2.0 firmware on theirs, so be sure it has the latest! Sand Force controllers have had that available since December.
Mac OS won't have TRIM so it is doubly important that the SSD controller does have active background garbage collection going on (normally during idle time, say weekly).
Restoring SSD can be tricky in terms of performance on a Mac.
MacIntouch today had a report of a G4 Sawtooth user with SSD for system and mini-home folder. Said it really made a difference. - putting home on mechanical drive was slowing down holding back Safari and anything that needed read or write to home folder regularly like browsers and some apps.
This is better than some mechanical drives that have not done so well on 2003/-4 G5s or couldn't even use newer 10K WD Raptors.
The only reason to get one from OWC is support Mac vendor but given how they took over 3 months to include the latest firmware, I just went with Corsairs instead. OCZ is fine now too (a year ago reports circulated that they were using "tier 2 parts" for nand memory. Corsair I knew was using Micron and that plus Sand Force 1200 = success.

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Hard drive, SSD, Time machine question

I was using a Macbook Pro mid 2012 13" for this problem.
About a month ago, I upgraded my hard drive to a Crucial Solid State Drive (SSD) 240 gb m500. I used Carbon Copy Cloner and everything went very smoothly and my computer worked great for about two months. Randomly one day, I turned on my computer and got a WHITE SCREEN. I have tried several things to try and correct this SSD but none of them will work. I have come to the conclusion that it is a broken/unusable SSD and am returning it.
My problem comes that my time machine backup is on my old macbook pro hard drive. I want to put back in that hard drive into my MBP with all my files intacted, but of course it is not in the right format to run.
I have access to another MBP, a 500 gb external drive, as well as a internal hard drive enclosure to plug my old hard drive into USB externally.
My question is would it be to risky, if I backed up my friends MBP to the 500gb external hard drive using time machine. Then I put my time machine backup on his computer. Then make a copy from his computer of my time machine backup to my old MBP hard drive. Then put my newly copied hard drive back into my MBP. And then take my friends MBP and time machine his backup back from the external drive back onto his computer.
Let me know if you have any other ideas. Thanks
~Katherine

With the SSD still in the MacBook, hold down the Option key at Startup. This will draw an icon for each potentially-bootable drive.
Now go away from your Mac and leave it powered on doing nothing for 20 to 30 minutes.
Sometimes an SSD gets so clogged with data it needs idle to do a major Garbage collect, but thinks it is still being accessed, so it delays the Garbage Collect. Leaving it alone for 20 minutes or more MAY allow it the time to fix itself.
If this helps, read this article on TRIM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRM
consider installing TRIM Enabler from Groths.

2011 MBP with SSD/Time Machine Issues

Early-2011 MBP (MacBookPro8,2)
8GB RAM
240 GB OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD (newly installed)
750 GB HD (original boot drive, now with the user folder on a 500 GB partition and a 250 GB Windows boot camp partition)
I replaced my 750 GB boot drive with the OWC SSD recently and put a fresh install of Mavericks (10.9) on the new drive. I used the OWC bracket and moved my old 750 GB drive to the optical drive bay. Erased and reformatted the 500 GB partition (on the 750GB drive) as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive. I moved my Home folder to the Mac partition. I've since reinstalled apps and replaced my Home folder contents from a clone I made.
When I try to run Time Machine (either via a directly connected HD or via Time Capsule) I end up with the machine freezing up. It doesn't always totally freeze up, but once I try to click around or open the Finder or an Application I end up with the beach ball and end up having to do a hard reboot (hold power button til it shuts down). If I don't wait awhile before restarting sometimes the machine won't find the startup disk. It does seem like Time Machines starts... as it does start writing the backup record. It never finishes though.
Based on some of the other threads I've read I ran the following command:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl $ 2> /dev/null | wc -l
And was given the number "235".
Any pointers?

There's no simple or easy way to do that, and it depends on your circumstances. See Transferring Home Folders not on a Startup volume for some suggestions.

L540 with M.2 SSD & Windows 8.1 - ExpressCache or RapidBoot?

Hello everyone. I just got a new L540 that I ordered with the M.2 16GB SSD add-on to improve performance. I noticed that my system is taking shall we say, non-SSD times to boot up and I can hear it largely reading from the mechanical HDD when starting. After doing some research, I'm not sure if the factory image was properly configured for the M.2 drive. I've seen a lot of people talking about ExpressCache which is not installed here. It only lists the L530 among its supported devices but I presume the L540 would be supported too. I do have RapidBoot HDD Accelerator installed but it's not only showing at 32-bit (I have 64-bit Windows 8.1) but that software isn't even available as a download on my model's drivers page. I have a feeling the wrong software was installed and the M.2 SSD is not being used. Can someone please confirm for me if I should be using ExpressCache or RapidBoot for this model and where the latest version of that can be obtained? Also, is there an easy way to verify the presence of the M.2 SSD in the system? It's on my invoice, I know I'm supposed to have it but it doesn't appear to be working. Thanks all!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

My personal opinion is that RapidBoot HDD Accelerator has no value, and in fact the software recently went end-of-life so it won't be shipping on upcoming models. I do not run it on my own systems.
ExpressCache is a learning cache so it takes some time for the cache to fill up with your most frequently used files. You can check the efficiency of the cache by opening a command prompt as administrator and then enter the command "eccmd.exe -info". At the bottom of the output should be percentages for cache read and write. The higher the percentages, the better, and it means that the cache is working well.

Evaluating the Health of an SSD

Hello Everyone-
I recently had the chance to purchase a used SSD for a great price that I couldn't resist. It is a Samsung made model that I believe came out of another Macbook Pro becasue it shows up with the following name in system preferences: APPLE SSD SM512E. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drive and then I installed it in my new MacBook Pro. I am utterly amazed by the proformace improvement. It is night an day faster. Also, I noticed Trim support was enabled automatically. I have a question regarding sustainability given that this drive has an unknown history to me:
How can I tell if there are any issues with this SSD? Are there any free utilities to gague it's health? Seeing as all this is due to my desire to save money, I can't afford software that will cost a lot to answer these questions.
How do SSD's fail if/when they do? Will I start loosing little bits of data, will it start to freeze more, or will it just become unbootable instantly?
If there are any issues with the drive now and I use time machine to backup, will those issues be carried over onto my backup rendering it unstable/unusable?
Do you know how apple deals with this sort of warrenty on a drive that is "theirs" but has moved from one machine to another?
Thanks for your help, and I really appreciate any help/advice you guys can offer.
Ben
PS - I am well aware of the risk of using non-new hard drives. I realize this is a risk, and I'm trying to mitigate that in whatever way I can.

Thanks Kappy-
I really appreciate your response. Havings spent a bit of time on this, I think I have answers to question 2-4. Question 1 seems a little more fuzzy:
How can I check on the health of my drive.I HAVE NO IDEA. It seems like things like disk warrior will give ambiguous advice. Also, I don't know if any of these types of tools are free.
How do SSD's fail?SSD's fail catastrophically when they fail. One day they work, and another they just stop working. I assume that means that if it's working, there is nothing wrong with it and there is no way to predict when anything will go wrong. (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/data-recovered-failed-ssd/)
Time machine backups, If they complete and are verified, will not be impacted by any latent issues that I can not see in my SSD. If the drive fails, I'll be able to jump back to my backup assuming there were no hardware issues.
Will I get any support from Apple?I'm not going to get any support from apple if something goes wrong because the drive is not in the original machine (implying I've opened the computer and changed components).
I guess my question comes down to one issue: in the past I knew hard drives to develop "bad blocks" or something that sort of became third rails. If something critical gets written to one of these, everything collapses. This is of course just one type of failure. I was assuming a similar thing might happen with my SDD. I just wanted to find a way to see if there were bad things sitting in the background that I could identify pro-actively to guard against a big failure. It doesn't appear that there is a way to do that, and I'm not even sure if SSD's have the same issues.
Thanks,
Ben

Creating a bootable Volume for the MBA

This post is kinda a follow-on to post http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1386691&tstart=0
I used Disk Utility to re-partition my internal SSD so that I could clone my Time Machine backup USB disk Volume to it using SD! version 2.5 (Leopard compatible). After this I disconnected the Time Machine USB disk from the MBA and re-connected another LaCie 40GB USB disk instead.
I now did a remote boot from my G5's optical device and used the Installer to restore the SSD Time Machine clone to the direct attached LaCie disk. This went smoothly.
I then restarted the MBA and held down the Option key and was able to select the attached LaCie USB disk and the MBA booted up nicely from it.
So, now I have an alternative external means of booting my MBA is the internal SSD goes south or get corrupted in weird manner.

Spinland wrote:
Then what CSound1 said: use CCC to clone your drive to another disk for safekeeping, then install Lion and enjoy. All of your apps will still be there after the upgrade.
Have you checked to make sure your apps are Lion compatible? This guide can help you find out:
http://fairerplatform.com/2011/07/are-your-apps-lion-compatible-how-to-check/
Hi Spinland
That is not what I said exactly ......
1 Clone the SL (internal) to the external.
2 Boot from the external and install Lion on it.
3 Run Lion from the clone until you know it works (and you can identify any incompatible apps).
4 Clone the Lion external back to the internal.
5 You're done.

Swapping HDs with new MBP: What to do with OS X?

I purchased a new MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i7 quad-core from the Apple Store Thursday morning with the 750GB 5400RPM hard drive. I now have time to set up the new machine but I am hung up on how best to deal with swapping hard drives. My current MBP has a 640GB 7200RPM hard drive with OS X 10.6.6 installed. I am a photographer so the faster drive makes a big difference with large photo catalogs. I had planned on swapping out the new 750GB 5400RPM drive for my current 640GB 7200RPM hard drive and then get back to work, however, I am concerned that the OS X installed on the 640GB 7200RPM hard drive will not be compatible with the new machine's processor. Should I do the swap and then boot up from the new laptop's OS X install disks and do a OS X only install? I have never done a OS X only install/update, will any other data be altered, any suggestions on how to proceed? Should I just swap, start up and then run Apple Software Update?
I would prefer avoiding an erase and install, cloning, migration, Adobe registration issues, etc and going the HD swap and OS X disk update route if it can work.
Thanks for your input,
Chad

I found this discussing looking to do the same thing-ish.
I just bought a new i7 quad MacBook Pro (delivered today). Less than 4 weeks ago, I had picked up an i5 MacBook Pro. Since I'm still in my return window, I decided the buy the new one, do the hard drive shuffle and return the less new one.
I have a 500gb 7200rpm drive AND a 120gb SSD in the drive bay. I really never considered just swapping the drives into the new machine, but I thought I'd search and see if anyone had any success.
I had a couple thoughts on how I'm going to do the shuffle:
1) Superduper clone the SSD back onto my 500gb. I the system as it is now started life on the 500gb. Superduper (registered) will do a backup only updating the changed files which shouldn't be too bad. I have my user directories (separate from the startup disk) on the 500gb so SD won't have to copy any of those files. Then I figured I could use the migration software to copy all my 'stuff' (minus user directory) back onto the newly reformatted SSD with 10.6 installed onto the new MBP.
2) I was noticing that migration assistant can work from Time Machine, so I'll probably do that since my SSD time machine backup doesn't contain my gigantic user directory. I'll still do a SuperDuper backup just to be safe.
I'm tempted to throw my hard drive into an external usb to see if it boots just for the heck of it.

Migrate one account from multi-user laptop to new hard drive

Hello - I aologize if this has been asked/answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.
I have a MacBook unibody whose hard drive is reaching capacity; plus I am giving it to my daughter to take to college.
I am "upgrading" the machine with an internal SSD, a larger HDD, and making the optical drive external.
I want to move *just her account* to the new SSD. The new SSD isn't much bigger than the curren internal drive, so I want to put her Music, Movies, and Pictures on a 300 GB HDD partition and use the remaining 200 GB paritition for Time Machine backups.
I know this is a lot of things. I don't think I have any questions about how to do this physically -- I bought all the accessories from OWC, including an external enclosure for the optical drive and their USB to eSATA (etc.) connector to dupe the existing drive to the new drive.
The problem is that it's not a simply "duplication" issue. I don't want a clone of the old drive. To further complicate things, my daughter's current account is not an administrator account, and it needs to be an administrator account on the new drive (it's the only account that will be on the new drive.
"OLD" LAPTOP                         "NEW" LAPTOP
My account (administrator)          N/A
Wife's account                            N/A
Sister's account                          N/A
Target Daughter Account             Yes, as administrator
Her files                                     Yes, all of them
                                                       Photos, Movies, Music --> new internal HDD, 300 GB partition
                                                       Documents --> OK to be on SSD
Time Machine                                   200 GB partiion, new internal HDD
Applications                               Virtually all of them
Anyone else's files                      None
So -- am I making this waay to complicated? Should I just install Lion on the new internal drive, set her as with a new administrator account, and then drag the files I want into the locations I want? Do all the files associated with the Home folder have to live on the same drive?
Any help, much appreciated.

It's a lot to consider, but the short answer is that Migration Assistant or Setup Assistant will do what you want. Setup Assistant may be easier in your case. In any event what you propose sounds like a good idea.
My first question is how do you intend to connect the various drives. If you install the SSD and leave the MacBook's internal HD in place, that would seem to be the simplest thing to do. Install Lion on the SSD, then, boot from it. A new installation of Lion will call Setup Assistant to initially configure her user account and migrate data from her existing account - you will choose the option to migrate from another hard disk. You can choose the user account from the existing installation, and Setup Assistant will permit you to choose what to migrate. If you have the space, migrate everything, since you are about to remove the existing hard disk drive (if you do not have sufficient space, you will need to remove the existing HD and use it externally, since you will need to install the larger, empty one first).
Make sure you check the box to allow that user to administer the computer. It might be a good idea to promote her account to Administrator before starting any of this anyway.
Next, remove the existing HD and install the larger, empty one. Boot the MacBook, log in under her account, partition and format the HD using Disk Utility.
Drag her entire Pictures, Music, and Movies folders to the data partition. When you launch iTunes (for instance) hold the Option key. That will cause a prompt to appear asking you to locate her iTunes Library. Select the one on the designated partition. Repeat for iPhoto.
Make sure that all her photos and music appears as expected. Once you are satisfied it's working properly you can delete those folders from the SSD.
Next is Time Machine but after all this work that ought to be easy enough to figure out.
I hope this makes sense.
There are other alternatives including using Carbon Copy Cloner or the equivalent to clone the existing HD to the SSD, then deleting the accounts you do not need. It's up to you to determine if that is simpler.

Airplay Mirroring Lags and Sputters

With Mirroring I have Extreme Lag and Sputtering. Video is unwatcahable as well as any work with it. My set up includes:
Apple TV 2 with high-grade cables (works fine streaming anything native on ATV2 as well as my iPhone 4s)
MBP 15" i7 2.2 GHz with 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD
Time Capsule 2TB with 5 GHz Network enabled
Tried using both built in Mountain Lion Airplay Mirroring as well as AirParrot, both lag pretty bad with AirParrot being better.
There wasn't anything else running on the network and I only was running one-two apps at a time.

I think we're a way off from a perfect wireless second monitor. A year ago I tried a few on the iPad and had the same lagginess and haven't been inclined to try anything since. I just don't think Wi-Fi is the way to go. Maybe in about 2 or 5 years from now we will have a suitable wireless solution for a monitor. It's hard to predict at this point.
The best way to view your content is to create a dedicated server. LaCie makes a Media box like Apple TV with less bells and whistles, but it will play a lot more file types if you don't want to convert your videos. The only drawback to it is that you would have to purchase and install Twonky Server to get it to work (it's about $20-$30) as well, and to be honest, it just doesn't work as well on my Mac Server as it did on my Windows Server.
Of course, the other option is the one I stated above.
I was lucky in that I've always converted my videos to mp4 because I always believed that it was the most universal. I use a dedicated file server with iTunes running and my Apple TV works great with it.

Can't fully restore my Time Machine/Time Capsule Backup to my newly-wiped SSD/HDD

On receiving my leased, Bootcamp-enabled MacBook Pro, I saw that there were no installation discs for Windows or OSX, and that there were 2 partitions (or so I thought) for Mac and Windows: 375GB each. As I produce music using software in both OSs, I wanted to create a 185GB FAT-32 partition to store my sound samples, projects etc. I attempted to create this partition by resizing (halving) my Bootcamp partition in OSX Disc Utility. The first time I attempted it, resizing was possible, but after the new partition was created, I had problems booting and so had to edit my GPT in order to boot again. Once ‘fixed,’ (by deleting the new partition) I couldn’t resize the Bootcamp partition to fill the 185GB gap, and that 185GB was ‘lost.’ The Bootcamp partition was 375GB but its used space + free space added up to 190GB
So the other day, I tried to follow what I thought was a more logical approach, which I was *sure* would work. My plan was to:
Use Windows Backup (and/or Clonezilla, or Disk Utility) to store an image of my Windows partition.
Uninstall/wipe the Windows partition using BootCamp Assistant, creating 1 big OSX partition
Use BootCamp Assistant to re-partition the HDD for Windows, OSX and ‘shared,’ and then re-install Windows, leaving 175GB for shared music production files
Restore the image/backups (approx 70GB) and carry on as before.
During the process, I deemed that this wasn't possible on my system for a variety of reasons: My laptop already had 4 partitions (Windows Recovery, Bootcamp/Windows, Mac Recovery HD, and Mac) and my understanding is that the MBR of my SSD only supports 4 partitions in its Bootcamp + OSX-compatible state. I have never got this '5 partition' strategy working.
I was unable to restore my Windows partition after re-installing Windows via Bootcamp. As a solution, I then decided to wipe the OSX partition (at that point the only 'visible' partition on the disk) and in-place re-install Mac OS X, with a view to installing Windows after OSX.
Once I wiped my hard drive, however, restoring my files and settings, didn't work as expected. Time Machine backups etc were inaccessible after a normal re-install. Re-installing with file transfer at setup froze at the 10% mark, with an estimated 200 hrs to go. The option to try a full-system restore via Time Machine is greyed-out. Even the Migration Assistant failed at a similar point. On the occasions where it claimed to complete successful (most recent situation) it seemed to neglect files, etc., and I'm now stuck at this stage.
I can view files/backups in Time Machine but I can't completely restore my computer to the state it was on 18th May...and 11 days without a fully-functioning laptop is really annoying. I wasn't able to ‘clean’ *or* ‘in-place’ re-install OSX using my existing settings and so I'm frustrated that Time Machine isn't a flawless backup & restore process. Migration Assistant didn’t transfer everything. Can I get things back to the way they were?
Things that haven’t restored correctly:
None of my icon customisations at the top of the screen were there (DropBox, Evernote, Google Drive, Kuvva, the way battery icon was displayed
Safari: Top Sites, History, Plugins
Logic Pro: Downloaded sounds, presets (10+GB), recent items, plugin settings/AU manager
Mail: Settings (and I’m assuming, the downloaded/cached mail: 7GB)
Trash can: Empty
All recent item lists apart from cloud-based services like Evernote, Notes, contacts
iTunes library
Dock view and settings
Settings for most programs
And I'm sure there are more!

Thanks Pondini; I'd hoped you'd reply. I'm still getting used to this tech, no can't even quote here.
Pondini wrote:
AkaraE wrote:
Time Machine backups etc were inaccessible after a normal re-install.
If you mean you installed OSX and created a user account, then couldn't find the backups, that's because they're treated as being from a different disk, until you either transfer your data or do a manual "associatedisk". See the blue box in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #19 for details.
Yet to try the associatedisk...didn't realise this was possible until reading your guides. The explanation makes sense now. On installing OSX it said transfers were possible after installation, so I put off transferring as the first 'restore' had frozen on 10%, thinking I'd do it afterwards.
Re-installing with file transfer at setup froze at the 10% mark, with an estimated 200 hrs to go
That sounds like damaged/corrupted backups. Try to Repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Yet to try...didn't realise this was possible until reading your guides
The option to try a full-system restore via Time Machine is greyed-out.
You mean, on the Mac OS X Utilities menu on the Recovery HD? I've never heard of that. That should always be selectable, so you can specify where the backups you want are located. Nothing happens when you click it? Can you click the other options there?
Even the Migration Assistant failed at a similar point. On the occasions where it claimed to complete successful (most recent situation) it seemed to neglect files, etc., and I'm now stuck at this stage.
Also sounds like directory or file problems on the backups.
This is just when I go into Time Machine/Star Wars. I can't just go to the latest backup and click "Restore" (which I assume would just restore my whole computer/HDD, although I have no experience in this). I can only select files and restore them individually.
Time Machine isn't a flawless backup & restore process.
There has never been any such thing.
I bought into the Time Machine 'hype' and thought it was an easy and reliable tool, but was a lot more difficult to do a full restore than I thought.
Trash can: Empty
Correct. Time Machine (like most backup apps) don't back up trash.
All the rest should have been backed-up and restored. Do you see them in the backups? What, if anything, was excluded from being backed-up?
As a non-native Mac user, I'm not sure where all these things are stored...perhaps in Library? I think that not having the full hard-drive just restore annoyed me...I felt that backing up my whole hard drive every hour should've allowed me to restore everything to as it was without a hitch, and when it didn't work I just tried a few things before posting on here.
If repairing the backups finds and fixes things, you might want to try again.
Gonna try now
If not, and if you can see the missing items via the Time Machine browser (the "Star Wars" display), you should be able to restore them selectively.

I have replaced my old hard drive with a new SSD drive. Can I restore a complete Time Machine backup

I have replaced my old hard drive on a MacBook Pro midyear 2010 with a new SSD drive. I have a complete system backup of my old drive in an external hard drive using Time Machine.
Questions that I would like to get answered.
1) Can I connect my external hard drive to the macbook pro and use that to boot up my machine by pressing and holding down the Options key? Once booted up successfully, can I use Disk Utility to format the new SSD and then restore the complete time machine backup?
2) If that is not possible, can I use my old drive which I can connect using a USB adapter and use that to boot up by following the same strategy as listed in Step#1 above?
3) If neither options are possible, do I need to use a bootable USB drive for Mavericks OS X to boot up the machine,
I have Mavericks OS X ( 10.9.6) and I do not have a DVD of the OS.
Any help is appreciated.

Let me first document the steps that did not work and then I will document the steps that worked.
1) Replaced the hard drive with SSD.
2) Connected the original hard drive using a USB adapter to the MacBook to make it behave like an external device.
3) Powered on the machine and on hearing the chime pressed Command-R to start in recovery mode.
4) Chose the Disk Utility option to erase and format the SSD. The format chosen was Mac OS Extended Journaled.
5) Once the formatting was done, then clicked on the "Restore" tab in Disk Utility
6) In the Source field, dragged my original hard drive from the left pane and placed it in the field
7) On the destination field, choose the new SSD drive. Clicked on "Restore". Gave me a warning, accepted the warning and the restore was under way.
8) I had 236 GB to restore so took 3.5 hours before it was done.
9) Disconnected the external hard drive ( my original internal HDD), shut down the machine and powered on again.
10) Heard the chime and after that it was a white screen with no Apple logo.
Was visibly upset and started thinking what my next move will be. Then tried these steps
1) Again powered off the machine.
2) Connected my internal HDD once more as an external drive
3) Powered on and on hearing the chime, pressed Command-R as before
4) Once the OS X utilities screen popped up, this time chose Install OS X
5) Erased the contents of SSD once more and reformatted it using Mac OS Extended Journaled.
6) Installed OS X by following the prompts.
7) Once the OS was installed, I was presented with an option on how to transfer data to this new Mac
8) Chose the option to move the data from my original HDD.
9) Took another 3 hours to move the data.
10) Removed the original HDD once the transfer was complete, powered down the machine and started it once more.
11) Booted successfully and all my content is now accessible on the new SSD.
Moral of the story - It is the spirit that counts.

Not enough space on my new SSD drive to import my data from time machine backup, how can I import my latest backup minus some big files?

I just got a new 256GB SSD drive for my mac, I want to import my data from time machine backup, but its larger than 256GB since it used to be on my old optical drive. How can I import my latest backup keeping out some big files on the external drive?

Hello Salemr,
When you restore from a Time Machine back up, you can tell it to not transfer folders like Desktop, Documents. Downloads, Movies, Music, Pictures and Public. Take a look at the article below for the steps to restore from your back up.
Move your data to a new Mac
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht5872
Regards,
-Norm G.

Message comes up on startup: You are unable to log in to the user account "terry" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred. This is a late 2012 mac mini with a 64g SSD and 1 Gig hard drive installed. Help please!

As in title. I have tried resetting the password. Nothing works to get me past this problem. The computer was working fine before this happened.

I have just purchased this mini and it was wiped to a virtual new unit. I have done an install of the OS up to 10.9.5 and then installed my purchased software that is stored on iTunes through wifi. The computer was working fine although sometimes a bit slow. I have it set up with the SSD as the program drive and the 1T drive for data which I have no files on it yet. I am the only account on the computer so cannot log in on another account. I booted up holding the Alt key and then used the restore drive which brought up the Utilities window. I then opened Terminal and typed in "resetpassword" and then closed out and restarted the computer. It seems to recognize my new password but still gives me the same message as above.
I do have an Apple OS system 10.7 on USB if that needs to be used to reinstall the OS to fix the problem. Thanks for taking the time to help me with this problem.

Mid 2011 mbp i7 with a SSD has problems, including grey screen/blue screen/beeping/freezing when I stream live video (i.e. watch espn or time warner cable) Help? Ideas?

Recently my Macbook Pro (June 2011, i7, 8gb RAM, 512gb SSD, AMD Radeon 6750, Mountain Lion - since July - currently 10.8.2) has been presenting me with an array of problems, usually initiated when I am streaming live video. I was streaming Time Warner Cable on 12/9 and it gave me what looked like the blue screen of death. It started up after about five attempts that time. The other day, after about a week of not using the computer, it wouldn't boot past the grey screen. I (option) started it and it gave me two boot choices, the regular HD and a "10.8 restore" option. The HD gave me the grey screen and the restore option gave me the dark blue screen. I reset PRAM and that didn't work. After a force (x) start it worked. Today, I was using "Watch ESPN" and the screen froze and the computer did some kind of repeating RAM beep or something. I rebooted and it started up fine. I'm not watching any videos anymore, but this is a problem since the primary purpose for my mbp is video editing. I'm still under AppleCare but I find more solid answers in the forums or at least better questions for the AppleCare people.
Anybody have similar experiences, or a solid idea of what the heck has happened to my machine?

I'm not really sure what method that person was talking about. I just read he had a successful install so I posted it.
But I'll hazard a guess
1. copy your entire drive to a backup drive
2. boot into that drive and test it out - make sure its a flawless backup, it works, and the hard drive has no problems
3. eject that drive, disconnect it and reboot into the leopard install dvd
4. erase your main hard drive using disc utilities on the leopard install dvd -- you've made a backup, made sure that backup was good, and disconnected it so it's currently safely disconnected from the leopard install you're about to do. Also, on the hard drive you're erasing and installing leopard on to, many people recommend "Zeroing" it as well as erasing it. That option is part of the erase function in disc utilities on the leopard install disc.
5. do a clean install of leopard
6. follow step 4 from that original post exactly as that person described to do.
7. read the rest of what they said
That's pretty much it. With the backup/erase/clean install/import/ you pretty much get everything you need exactly the way you want it with very few things missing -- and you've done this over a clean install. Plus that poster did mention that you can select what you want to import from your backup hard drive.
It sounds like its a "clean install" method that gives you control via "import from machine" option in the installer. Control over what parts of your "old mac" you want to import into your "new leopard mac".
Hopefully that helps. It sounds more involved, but its actually pretty quick and provides you with a perfectly save backup in case anything goes wrong with the leopard install.

Setting up new MBP with SSD and optical drive and restoring from Time Capsule

Hi Everyone-
Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find a specific answer by searching. My last macbook was stolen, but luckily I had everything backed up in my Time Capsule. I just ordered my new Macbook Pro (13"), 16GB Ram, and a 240GB SSD. I plan to install everything next week. My plan is to keep all of my apps and working files on my SSD and use my 2nd hard drive for data storage and possibly my itunes library. My question is- when setting all of this up, what would be the best way to go about doing this.
1.) Restoring my time machine backup to the original hard drive, move it to the optical drive bay, and then copy over the files that I want on the SSD (after installing the operating system) and delete them off of the origan HD.
2.) Restore my backup to the SSD (once it's installed) and then move files over to the formated original harddrive in the optical bay. My problem is that there may not be enough room on the 240GB SSD.
3.) Is there a way to do a slective restore through TM and move where I want to keep them? I think this would be the easiest.
4.) Other way that I haven't mentioned
Thanks for any help with this question.

I used setup assistant last time when I changed from a 2009 mini to a 2010 mini. It caused some file permission errors that still persist today with iPhoto. I have 2 accounts on my mini, 1 for my wife and 1 for myself, but I store all our photos and videos on the shared folder in order to avoid duplication. But when she imports pictures from her profile and I try to view them full screen, I'm unable to. I have to relaunch iPhoto and repair file permissions if I want to view them properly. I was hoping to avoid this happening again.

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