[john love]

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 all sharing does is to create a symbolic link or alias and place it on the clone, that should not take an additional 7 minutes.

I wonder if the problem centers on the fact that "Developer" is at the root level of the drive.

Also, I've come across one or two other posts about inordinate delays while creating a clone .. one talked about Parallels which I don't have because I'm still working with a PowerPC, System 10..4.10 and the other talked about waiting for hours with no finishing creating the clone. You responded with words to the effect of doing some other things while cloning .. the only thing I remember doing is cmd-i for Get Info on the clone to see about the size.

Anyway, just some thoughts.