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Old 06-25-2008, 12:47 PM
Xavier Xavier is offline
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SD seems to freeze, but ext HD keeps updating

Ok, the cloning process is currently happening as I type. I decided to upgrade my internal HD to a 750G a few months back, but only plan to clone essential files to an external 250G. Since there is one Admin(myself) and 3 other user accounts I decided to "Backup ALL Users Data - minus Admin's data".

SD seems to freeze and does not update evaluated, copied, or copy speed (basically all of "2. Copy Files" is not updating). However, when I do look up info on the external HD the gigs of data are increasing. The discrepancy is from 9.4Gigs in SD to 26.6Gigs in ExtHD. I know big files are supposed to slow down/freeze SD, but I can't think of a 15+Gig file. Activity Monitor does not show any problems with SD being frozen or unresponsive. By the way I do have the latest build 84 of SD 2.5.

(OK, I know too much info, but here are the questions?)

Is this common? or Should I be concerned?
Does running Quicksilver, Activity Monitor, or Firefox freeze SD?
How can I find out what big file is being transferred?
What if it is a file from another user account and I am not currently on Admin?
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