Upgrading 2 machines to SL - 1 of them has an external HD with Time Machine
hello all.
my setup and configuration are as follows:
machine 1 (home computer): Mac mini with external HD (not partitioned) used by Time Machine for automatic backups. No Boot Camp partition. WinXP on Parallels 5 beta for occasional use.
machine 2 (work computer): Macbook white with no external HD. WinXP on Boot Camp partition for occasional use. Another WinXP installation on Parallels 4 for full-time work use.
i plan on upgrading (not Erasing and Install but just upgrading) both machines to Snow Leopard, but have a doubt about machine2. since it is not attached to an external backup drive, and since it has very important work documents, how should i do to back it up before upgrading to SL?
No, Winclone's is a compressed disc image and doesn't take up too much room. You can fit it on your hard drive (it is a Mac application.) So only one clone is required. You may even be able to create a large enough partition on an existing external drive if it's large enough without having to lose anything by partitioning on the fly via 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.
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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.
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Back up all data now.
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