Hi all, I have a couple of questions. I just rsynced my home folder off to another drive. The trackpad and keyboard are going in this mackbook aftern nearly five years and I'm leaning towards mobile for everything. First question. After Rsync, the backup home folder was just over 100 gig while the original was about 195 gig. I have checked, and based on the sizes, documents, downloads, music, and all of the other folders I regularly use copied in tact. I combed through pretty carefully, but was unable to determine where the space discrepancy occurred. On the other hand, my home folder is reporting 195 gb in size, my free disk space seems to be around 100 gb, and my apps and other system files haven't been taken into account. So, Either something is wrong with my file system, or my 250 gb ssd has been visited by the space fairy. Disk utility says the disk is OK though there were over 1100 permission errors which I am now fixing. Should I be worried about this? ...especially in lite of my second question.
I am pretty terrified of elcap, but if this system is on it's way out, I want to scrub this ssd clean and install a brand new instalation of elcap. I don't want to use the latest and greatest myself, but I don't want my personal data going out with the computer. Does apple let ordinary people do such a thing? My current instalation is 5 or 7 years old. No word of a lie. It started at snow leopard I thinkg. That was the last instalation disk I got from apple ever, and since then I've siply installed any upgrades I wanted right over top of the old stuff. I've even transfered this install between several macs that I owned at various times. Since I'm preparing for the worst, it would be worth it to me to scrub this system if I can do that and keep yosemity. I'm hoping there's some option in recovery manager or somewhere that will let me whipe everything and make a clean install. Thanks for any info and suggestions. Erik Burggraaf Freelance jack of many trades! Visit my website: http://www.theoutofworkbum.work Also check out my website for inclusion to the android platform for persons with sensery, physical or cognitive disabilities: http://www.inclusiveandroid.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
