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Old 12-18-2013, 10:01 PM
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Cloning a Media Drive?
Can SuperDuper be used to clone a media drive—that is to say, a drive that does not have an operating system installed on it? The documentation seems to refer exclusively to "bootable clones". I just want to make an exact copy of a drive full of music and video.

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Old 12-18-2013, 10:15 PM
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Sure, as long as the drive is formatted as HFS+.
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Old 12-18-2013, 11:03 PM
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Since SuperDuper seemed able to do it, I went ahead and used smart update to make both drives identical. What's odd is that, after cloning, the amount of space used on the two drives is not identical when I compare Get Info windows; but the folder sizes displayed in each drive's Finder window are exactly the same on both drives. Any comment?
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Old 12-19-2013, 08:18 AM
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Spotlight, potential .MobileBackups folder, etc.
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Old 12-19-2013, 11:46 AM
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There is no Mobile Backups folder, no iTunes folder... But Spotlight is set to index one drive and not the other. Could this cause the discrepancy?
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Old 12-19-2013, 11:49 AM
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.MobileBackups is hidden - certainly Spotlight can be the cause, yes: it's quite large, generally.
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Old 12-21-2013, 04:50 PM
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Sounds reasonable. Thanks!
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