Forum: General
08-01-2013, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,986
Fusion Drive OR SSD/HDD combo?
Crunch time -- should I buy iMac with the new Fusion Drive OR the combined SSD + HDD?
1) I assume that Migration Assistant knows what files to put where using EITHER choice ???
2) I am inclined...
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Forum: General
08-26-2012, 08:59 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,195
iMac with HDD and SSD
Reference the iMac with the HDD (1 TB+) and the SSD (256GB).
1. Does the Finder show 1, or 2 drives?
2. Assuming 1 drive, does SuperDuper automatically transport only System files to the SSD...
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Forum: General
10-17-2010, 06:41 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,751
Okay, now what
Dave, I apologize for the length of this reply .. it's just that I'm trying to ask very exact questions .. so thanks in advance.
1) when SuperDuper clones my internal hard drive, does it just skip...
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Forum: General
10-17-2010, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 18,751
Hopeful that SD support for boot camp has changed
I will receive in the next day or two Windows 7 to install via Boot Camp.
Examining past messages on Boot Camp, you have stated that SuperDuper will not back-up or clone Boot Camp partitions ......
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Forum: General
08-30-2009, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 15,883
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Forum: General
09-01-2008, 08:51 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,150
Atta Boy and some fragmentation questions
After some 6 years of using SD to clone my internal and external drives, I finally had a need to restore and it worked flawlessly .. as if you folk didn't know that already.
My "need" was based on...
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Forum: General
02-09-2008, 01:58 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 20,665
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Forum: General
01-12-2008, 06:28 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 27,162
Technical differences between SD! and CCC
I have been a faithful user of SD for many years and will do so again when SD becomes Leopard compatible.
However, in the meantime I have been using CCC ... gotta do something in the meantime, or...
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Forum: General
12-27-2007, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,220
Preserving of icons in Leopard version
IF I have interpreted all the discussion on preserving volume icns, let me try to ask a very specific question, Dave.
If my internal drive has ICN#1 and my current clone .sparseimage has ICN#2,...
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Forum: General
11-29-2007, 04:41 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 17,667
Interim backup with Leopard
Rather than chance an elongated delay with SD!, just for yucks, I used Time Machine.
It took 3 hours, 20 minutes to backup 39 gig of data on my internal hard drive .. cheap insurance, but over 3...
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Forum: General
07-24-2007, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,107
I took a hint from what you said
namely, "if I had to guess the script wasn't constructed properly" .. so, I reconstructed the script almost from scratch, taking care to put my special copy first, followed by all the sharing stuff...
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Forum: General
07-23-2007, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,107
Dave, I really don't think so
The reason I say that is that the regular cloning with ignore "Developer" takes about the usual 8 minutes.
With sharing "Developer" the time escalated to up to 15+minutes before I aborted .. if...
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Forum: General
07-23-2007, 02:26 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,107
Sharing XCode Developer Folder
Dave -
Just downloaded and installed XCode's Developer Folder at root level.
Updated my Shared Users and Apps Clone, adding the folder "Developer" as shared. SuperDuper came to a screeching...
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Forum: General
11-09-2006, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,544
Partitioning an Intel Mac
Dave:
I found this on MacFixIt this morning:
"There is a bit of confusion about what is needed for a bootable disk.
"I use SuperDuper and Synchronize Pro X to create bootable disks on...
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Forum: General
09-20-2006, 12:08 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 110,438
Icon placement
Dave:
Mu drive layout:
internal = iMac Internal HD
external #1 partition #1 = LaCie Sandbox
external #1 partition #2 = LaCie_External_HD
external #2 = LaCie Data HD
I have several icns in...
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Forum: General
08-27-2006, 11:19 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 21,943
99 percent solution
Dave, that conversation between you and Peter da Silva was quite an education.
I'm not smart enough to comment on the technical content ... but for sure I laughed when someone (obviously in a...
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Forum: General
08-21-2006, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 21,943
Thank goodness SD will stick around
Dave:
Understand about the non-disclosure stuff. However, I am more than technically curious about Time Machine having to have a dedicated hard drive, or at least a very large partition ... if...
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Forum: General
08-13-2006, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 110,438
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Forum: General
08-06-2006, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 110,438
icon for sparseimage
The non-appearance of the new icon for the disk within the sparseimage is only temporary. This disk image with the wrong icon is still on the desktop ... when I eject the disk and then re-open the...
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Forum: General
08-03-2006, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 110,438
icon for sparseimage
No I do not need to simply because my sparseimage destination has a name (iMac_Internal_DU) that is not identical to the source (iMac Internal HD). I changed the name for the same reason that others...
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Forum: General
08-02-2006, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 110,438
Changing the icon on a sparseimage
Dave:
Thanks again for the chmod +x fix ... but:
(1) for the first scenario I have in my HOME folder this file = "VolumeIcons:LaCie SandBox.VolumeIcon.icns" whose icon is my special icon and...
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Forum: General
07-23-2006, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 110,438
Insufficient privileges to change icon???
Reference script to change icon after smart update
the first 2 lines of your script are:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Restoring icon for $3..."
SD chokes on the 1st line because of insufficient...
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