Hard Drive image on desktop ?
Hi folks, Ever since I have used a Mac the Hard Drive icon has sat in the top right of my screen. Recently I began to wonder if it needs to be there. I have recently noticed other iMacs that do not have the HD icon on the desktop. This might sound odd, but I have just always assumed it has to be there. However being a user who likes a very tidy screen, I now wonder about this. Can it be moved elsewhere without the risk of deleting my hard drive ? I notice that it does NOT appear in the Finder Sidebar. Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Hard Drive image on desktop ?
Hi Stephen You can have it sitting anywhere you want really, or not at all. If you don't want it showing on the Dekstop you can turn this feature off. in Finder - go to Finder menu then Preferences. Under General, show these items on the desktop,…un-tick Hard Disks and the Macintosh HD won't be there anymore. You can actually have it showing in the Sidebar if you want as well. Same Preference setting under Sidebar. Tick on Hard disks. It will appear. So you can have it in either, both, or neither,…or any mixture of those ;) Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 14/09/2014, at 5:23 PM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi folks, Ever since I have used a Mac the Hard Drive icon has sat in the top right of my screen. Recently I began to wonder if it needs to be there. I have recently noticed other iMacs that do not have the HD icon on the desktop. This might sound odd, but I have just always assumed it has to be there. However being a user who likes a very tidy screen, I now wonder about this. Can it be moved elsewhere without the risk of deleting my hard drive ? I notice that it does NOT appear in the Finder Sidebar. Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Error plugin SplashID.bundle (null) (v5.3.3
Hi Ronni, Before I posted this query, I had already removed SPLASH ID Desktop app using Clean My Mac uninstaller. When opening SAFARI, the error message still appears. Could you please advise me further how to get locate the likely site for this plugin, so I can remove it. Best wishes Marcus Harris P.O. Box 7135 Marcus Harris Shenton Park Western Australia 6008 Australia Cryptodome Pty Ltd cryptodo...@me.com Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 On 11 Sep 2014, at 4:17 pm, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Sorry Marcus, I didn't read your email thoroughly :( You wish to get rid of SplashID Plugin Remove Plug-In 1.) Open the SplashID desktop app 2.) Navigate from Menu bar File - Plugin for Safari - Uninstall. Apparently it is not in either: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins Or ~/Library/Internet Plug-ins Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11 Sep 2014, at 4:05 pm, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Marcus, If you get an error mentioning SplashID Safe when you run Safari on your Mac, this may be due to an incompatible version of the SIMBL plugin that was installed by an earlier version to support the SplashID plugin for Safari. Please download and run this uninstaller script to remove it: http://splashdata.com/Downloads/SIMBL-Uninstaller.dmg After you run it, launch SplashID and login. It should clear up the issue. The script removes the following: Directory: /Library/InputManagers/SIMBL/ File: /Library/ScriptingAdditions/SIMBL.osax Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11 Sep 2014, at 3:24 pm, Marcus F Harris cryptodo...@me.com wrote: Hi, I have this message every time I open Safari Browser. “Error --Safari 7.0.6 (v9537.78.2) has not been tested with the plugin SplashID.bundle (null) (v5.3.3). As a precaution, it has not been loaded. Please contact the plugin developer for further information.” I Confess I have had it through several versions of Safari and hoped it would dosappear with updates. No sy=uch luck. So Iused “Clean my Mac” to uninstall SPLASH and yet it’s still occurs. Is there a simple way to get rid the plugin SplashID.bundle (null) (v5.3.3) from Safari? I have given up on SPLASH and moved to EVERNOTE. It’s excellent. cheeers Marcus Marcus Harris P.O. Box 7135 Marcus Harris Shenton Park Western Australia 6008 Australia Cryptodome Pty Ltd cryptodo...@me.com Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 iMac Desktop 3.06 GHz Intel Dual Core 8 GB Memory 1067 DDR OSX 10.9.4 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Hard Drive image on desktop ?
Well blow me down !! I cannot believe that I have just left that as it is for about 20 years of using Macs. Thank Daniel. On 14 Sep 2014, at 5:28 pm, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Stephen You can have it sitting anywhere you want really, or not at all. If you don't want it showing on the Dekstop you can turn this feature off. in Finder - go to Finder menu then Preferences. Under General, show these items on the desktop,…un-tick Hard Disks and the Macintosh HD won't be there anymore. You can actually have it showing in the Sidebar if you want as well. Same Preference setting under Sidebar. Tick on Hard disks. It will appear. So you can have it in either, both, or neither,…or any mixture of those ;) Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 14/09/2014, at 5:23 PM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi folks, Ever since I have used a Mac the Hard Drive icon has sat in the top right of my screen. Recently I began to wonder if it needs to be there. I have recently noticed other iMacs that do not have the HD icon on the desktop. This might sound odd, but I have just always assumed it has to be there. However being a user who likes a very tidy screen, I now wonder about this. Can it be moved elsewhere without the risk of deleting my hard drive ? I notice that it does NOT appear in the Finder Sidebar. Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Enormous Time Machine backup
Hi Ronni, been a bit busy and off caravanning for the weekend. But this evening I finally got the Time Tracker downloaded and within a minute or so I could see the “enormous backup”. Whilst Time Machine was saying it’s 175GB in size, the Actual file from Time Tracker is 148.4GB. So by zooming into the BIG stuff, the culprit is iPhoto. It’s the folder called “Masters” responsible for 136GB of the 148.4GB which i presume holds the image Master files and the Thumbnails folder responsible for 9.6GB of the 148GB. This iPhoto library has been backed up before and for months has been routinely doing all the backups normally. Why would it trigger a Full backup of the iPhoto library all over again. I’ve effectively lost 175GB of space on the backup drive for seemingly no good reason. The Master folder contains beneath it a number of folders one for each year and each of these reports in this backup for their respective sizes I presume. Is there anything I should do? If I do nothing it will proceed ok but I am puzzled why this “Enormous Backup” had to exist. Thanks for the tip on Time Tracker, it is a beauty. If I blow away the old sparesebundle and rebuild a backup from scratch, I would recover the space but the do nothing option is easier at the moment. Regards Pete. On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:46 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Why did you download Pacifist? I didn't mention Pacifist, you don't want Pacifist! I said to download 'Time Tracker' TimeTracker TimeTracker is a quick-and-dirty application that displays the contents of your Time Machine backups, and shows what's changed since the previous backup. TimeTracker is in an extremely early state, and is as such very unpolished. Download TimeTracker (prerelease), which works with 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or greater. http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip Cheers, Ronni On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:29 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have downloaded the Pacifist software and in the process of Loading Pete's Macbook (ie Macbook Sparsebundle file). I don't have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet connection so I've gotta do it wirelessly (but I just ordered one) so I expect it will take ages to 'Load'. Oh well, hopefully it will present the culprit taking up huge data volume from my TC backup disc. I have stopped routine TC backups for now - nothing to loose. Whatever is the cause for this I can do one of two things. Either I understand from this exercise what is the cause of this huge data consumption and just leave the sparesebundle alone OR I blow away the sparesebundle and do a complete backup from scratch again and manage the cause of why this all happened so that I can keep the freeboard I had prior to this. Regards Pete On 7 Sep 2014, at 7:20 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Time Tracker is free; it is pretty basic but usually works well. It only shows backups on the current backup destination, though, so if you've got more than one, you have to select the one you want (if you're using rotating backups, it's the set most recently backed-up to). Time Tracker works by comparing a completed backup you select to the one before it. So if you select a large backup, it’s going to take a while to determine, calculate, and display the items. If your backups are on a network, connect via Ethernet if possible. It will still take a while, but be 2-3 times faster than WI-FI. That also means that, after 24 hours, you're not really looking at what was backed-up on a particular backup, but all the backups since the previous one. And you can’t select the oldest backup, since there’s nothing to compare it to, or one that’s running, failed, or was cancelled. The Time Tracker display is similar to a Finder window in List View The dated backups will show 0 bytes until you select one, then the app will calculate the size, so may take a while. You can click the disclosure triangles to see the items in that folder that were backed-up. Time Tracker will only show backups on the volume currently selected for backups (or most recently backed-up to) in Time Machine preferences. The recent version of Time Tracker may give you a permissions error on network backups; if it does, try double-clicking the sparse bundle via the Finder to mount the disk image. Cheers, Ronni On 7 Sep 2014, at 5:36 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I have a MacBook Pro Retina 13 256GB with a 2TB attached external drive (currently with around 550GB on the external drive). I have the external drive INCLUDED in my TC backups and the backup size (according to the TM Options panel) is 659GB. It has been backed up for many months now and routinely has been doing the updates hourly per the normal schedule. The backup drive is 1TB attached via the USB with a
Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor
I bought myself a Gigabit Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor so my MBP Retina can utilise ethernet for big backups and other large data movements. Tonight I plugged it in and I thought it would auto recognise but nothing. I checked in System Prefs under Thunderbolt and “Not Connected” is noted for both ports. I proved the ethernet cable is good with another older MB connected so everything up to the plug is good. I read online about some faulty adaptors and maybe this is the case with mine. I thought I’d ask maybe there is a simple start command to set it up and use it. Any experiences anyone? Regards Pete…. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor
Not really anything to do. Plug it in, and away it should go. (as I note you've already mentioned it shows up in System Preferences, so it should be recognised). Did you hear the click when you plugged the Ethernet plug in. Also make sure that you have the adapter pushed in firmly (just enough to connect it, not enough to push it right through the port) ;o) You could also try restart with it plug in,…just incase. I've used quite a few of them with client machines and not had any fail straight out of the box and must admit I've not had any problems with them. (one client bought about 8 of them for their laptops). Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 14/09/2014, at 8:56 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I bought myself a Gigabit Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor so my MBP Retina can utilise ethernet for big backups and other large data movements. Tonight I plugged it in and I thought it would auto recognise but nothing. I checked in System Prefs under Thunderbolt and “Not Connected” is noted for both ports. I proved the ethernet cable is good with another older MB connected so everything up to the plug is good. I read online about some faulty adaptors and maybe this is the case with mine. I thought I’d ask maybe there is a simple start command to set it up and use it. Any experiences anyone? Regards Pete…. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor
In System Preferences Network did you change your connection to Ethernet? Then 'Refresh DHCP Lease' 1. Unplug the thunderbolt converter 2. Wait few secs, then plug it back in 3.Go to System Preferences Network Advanced - Refresh DHCP lease Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:56 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I bought myself a Gigabit Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor so my MBP Retina can utilise ethernet for big backups and other large data movements. Tonight I plugged it in and I thought it would auto recognise but nothing. I checked in System Prefs under Thunderbolt and “Not Connected” is noted for both ports. I proved the ethernet cable is good with another older MB connected so everything up to the plug is good. I read online about some faulty adaptors and maybe this is the case with mine. I thought I’d ask maybe there is a simple start command to set it up and use it. Any experiences anyone? Regards Pete…. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Enormous Time Machine backup
Hi Peter, Short answer to why Time Machine has done a larger backup of iPhoto. You had made changes in iPhoto by importing video. Then you were uploading that video file to Dropbox. You are storing your iPhoto library inside of a disk image file (sparsebundle), which obviously is a single (huge) file. So any time the disk image changes, Time Machine will back up the entire file, which in your case is many gigabytes. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:31 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, been a bit busy and off caravanning for the weekend. But this evening I finally got the Time Tracker downloaded and within a minute or so I could see the “enormous backup”. Whilst Time Machine was saying it’s 175GB in size, the Actual file from Time Tracker is 148.4GB. So by zooming into the BIG stuff, the culprit is iPhoto. It’s the folder called “Masters” responsible for 136GB of the 148.4GB which i presume holds the image Master files and the Thumbnails folder responsible for 9.6GB of the 148GB. This iPhoto library has been backed up before and for months has been routinely doing all the backups normally. Why would it trigger a Full backup of the iPhoto library all over again. I’ve effectively lost 175GB of space on the backup drive for seemingly no good reason. The Master folder contains beneath it a number of folders one for each year and each of these reports in this backup for their respective sizes I presume. Is there anything I should do? If I do nothing it will proceed ok but I am puzzled why this “Enormous Backup” had to exist. Thanks for the tip on Time Tracker, it is a beauty. If I blow away the old sparesebundle and rebuild a backup from scratch, I would recover the space but the do nothing option is easier at the moment. Regards Pete. On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:46 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Why did you download Pacifist? I didn't mention Pacifist, you don't want Pacifist! I said to download 'Time Tracker' TimeTracker TimeTracker is a quick-and-dirty application that displays the contents of your Time Machine backups, and shows what's changed since the previous backup. TimeTracker is in an extremely early state, and is as such very unpolished. Download TimeTracker (prerelease), which works with 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or greater. http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip Cheers, Ronni On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:29 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have downloaded the Pacifist software and in the process of Loading Pete's Macbook (ie Macbook Sparsebundle file). I don't have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet connection so I've gotta do it wirelessly (but I just ordered one) so I expect it will take ages to 'Load'. Oh well, hopefully it will present the culprit taking up huge data volume from my TC backup disc. I have stopped routine TC backups for now - nothing to loose. Whatever is the cause for this I can do one of two things. Either I understand from this exercise what is the cause of this huge data consumption and just leave the sparesebundle alone OR I blow away the sparesebundle and do a complete backup from scratch again and manage the cause of why this all happened so that I can keep the freeboard I had prior to this. Regards Pete On 7 Sep 2014, at 7:20 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Time Tracker is free; it is pretty basic but usually works well. It only shows backups on the current backup destination, though, so if you've got more than one, you have to select the one you want (if you're using rotating backups, it's the set most recently backed-up to). Time Tracker works by comparing a completed backup you select to the one before it. So if you select a large backup, it’s going to take a while to determine, calculate, and display the items. If your backups are on a network, connect via Ethernet if possible. It will still take a while, but be 2-3 times faster than WI-FI. That also means that, after 24 hours, you're not really looking at what was backed-up on a particular backup, but all the backups since the previous one. And you can’t select the oldest backup, since there’s nothing to compare it to, or one that’s running, failed, or was cancelled. The Time Tracker display is similar to a Finder window in List View The dated backups will show 0 bytes until you select one, then the app will calculate the size, so may take a while. You can click the disclosure triangles to see the items in that folder that were backed-up. Time Tracker will only show backups on the volume currently selected for backups (or most recently backed-up to) in Time Machine preferences. The recent version of Time Tracker may give you a permissions error on network backups; if it does, try double-clicking the
Re: Enormous Time Machine backup
Hi Ronni, thanks for that. I don't understand then why just importing one or numerous photos from my iPhone into iphoto as I have in the recent past results in a backup of just the imported images and not the entire library. The software would appear to be intelligent enough to backup the changes to the iphoto library and not the whole thing. I'm aware of this single file concept behavior like MS Outlook backend mail file causes this but this is the first time I have experienced this behavior with iphoto. Prior to doing the drop box upload, I had placed a copy of the video file on the desktop and the upload was of the desktop video file so I divorced the upload operation from iphoto completely. I realiser this is academic now as it has already happened but it still has me interested to know what I did that caused it. Regards Pete. div Original message /divdivFrom: Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com /divdivDate:14/09/2014 21:44 (GMT+08:00) /divdivTo: wamug@wamug.org.au /divdivSubject: Re: Enormous Time Machine backup /divdiv /divHi Peter, Short answer to why Time Machine has done a larger backup of iPhoto. You had made changes in iPhoto by importing video. Then you were uploading that video file to Dropbox. You are storing your iPhoto library inside of a disk image file (sparsebundle), which obviously is a single (huge) file. So any time the disk image changes, Time Machine will back up the entire file, which in your case is many gigabytes. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:31 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, been a bit busy and off caravanning for the weekend. But this evening I finally got the Time Tracker downloaded and within a minute or so I could see the “enormous backup”. Whilst Time Machine was saying it’s 175GB in size, the Actual file from Time Tracker is 148.4GB. So by zooming into the BIG stuff, the culprit is iPhoto. It’s the folder called “Masters” responsible for 136GB of the 148.4GB which i presume holds the image Master files and the Thumbnails folder responsible for 9.6GB of the 148GB. This iPhoto library has been backed up before and for months has been routinely doing all the backups normally. Why would it trigger a Full backup of the iPhoto library all over again. I’ve effectively lost 175GB of space on the backup drive for seemingly no good reason. The Master folder contains beneath it a number of folders one for each year and each of these reports in this backup for their respective sizes I presume. Is there anything I should do? If I do nothing it will proceed ok but I am puzzled why this “Enormous Backup” had to exist. Thanks for the tip on Time Tracker, it is a beauty. If I blow away the old sparesebundle and rebuild a backup from scratch, I would recover the space but the do nothing option is easier at the moment. Regards Pete. On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:46 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Why did you download Pacifist? I didn't mention Pacifist, you don't want Pacifist! I said to download 'Time Tracker' TimeTracker TimeTracker is a quick-and-dirty application that displays the contents of your Time Machine backups, and shows what's changed since the previous backup. TimeTracker is in an extremely early state, and is as such very unpolished. Download TimeTracker (prerelease), which works with 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or greater. http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip Cheers, Ronni On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:29 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have downloaded the Pacifist software and in the process of Loading Pete's Macbook (ie Macbook Sparsebundle file). I don't have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet connection so I've gotta do it wirelessly (but I just ordered one) so I expect it will take ages to 'Load'. Oh well, hopefully it will present the culprit taking up huge data volume from my TC backup disc. I have stopped routine TC backups for now - nothing to loose. Whatever is the cause for this I can do one of two things. Either I understand from this exercise what is the cause of this huge data consumption and just leave the sparesebundle alone OR I blow away the sparesebundle and do a complete backup from scratch again and manage the cause of why this all happened so that I can keep the freeboard I had prior to this. Regards Pete On 7 Sep 2014, at 7:20 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Time Tracker is free; it is pretty basic but usually works well. It only shows backups on the current backup destination, though, so if you've got more than one, you have to select the one you want (if you're using rotating backups, it's the set most recently backed-up to). Time Tracker works by comparing a completed backup you select to the one before it. So if you select a large backup, it’s going to take a while to determine, calculate, and display the items. If your backups
Re: Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor
Thanks for that Peter. I think I had given it at least a minute to 'recognise' the connection. There are two Thunderbolt ports, how do I know which is which in the System Info panel so I can renew the DHCP lease? Will give that a try. Thanks Peter. - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.org.au To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 15 Sep 2014 07:47:03 +0800 Subject:Re: Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:56 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: I bought myself a Gigabit Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor so my MBP Retina can utilise ethernet for big backups and other large data movements. Tonight I plugged it in and I thought it would auto recognise but nothing. I checked in System Prefs under Thunderbolt and “Not Connected” is noted for both ports. I proved the ethernet cable is good with another older MB connected so everything up to the plug is good. I read online about some faulty adaptors and maybe this is the case with mine. I thought I’d ask maybe there is a simple start command to set it up and use it. Any experiences anyone? I bought one of these with by MBP Retina in 2012, and it has never failed me. It can sometimes take a little while to establish a connection from cold, depending on the hardware you're connecting to, and sometimes I have to resort the trick of renewing the DHCP lease as described by Ronni, but I have found that it does depend on the network. Most of the time the connection is instantaneous, but sometimes it can take up to a minute or so. It can be a little annoying, but as I say, I have not yet had it fail to make a connection. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor
Thanks Ronni, just saw this now, ignore my previous request for info on renewing lease. Regards Pete. - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.org.au To:wamug@wamug.org.au Cc: Sent:Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:21:53 +0800 Subject:Re: Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor In System Preferences Network did you change your connection to Ethernet? Then 'Refresh DHCP Lease' 1. Unplug the thunderbolt converter 2. Wait few secs, then plug it back in 3.Go to System Preferences Network Advanced - Refresh DHCP lease Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:56 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: I bought myself a Gigabit Ethernet to Thunderbolt adaptor so my MBP Retina can utilise ethernet for big backups and other large data movements. Tonight I plugged it in and I thought it would auto recognise but nothing. I checked in System Prefs under Thunderbolt and “Not Connected” is noted for both ports. I proved the ethernet cable is good with another older MB connected so everything up to the plug is good. I read online about some faulty adaptors and maybe this is the case with mine. I thought I’d ask maybe there is a simple start command to set it up and use it. Any experiences anyone? Regards Pete…. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Enormous Time Machine backup
Hi Peter, Hi Ronni, Ronni, I thought that the difference between the old sparse disk image and the newer sparse bundle was that the sparse bundle is NOT a single huge file but a bundle of small (around 8MB) files which look to the user like one file but allows time machine to just back up whichever files have changed (rather than the whole bundle). Obviously a video is generally much bigger than a few photos so would involve more of the (8mb) files and the backup would be bigger but should not involve the whole iphoto library or am I missing something? I don¹t use iphoto myself does it do things differently? Apologies if I have missed the point ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 14/9/14 21:44, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Short answer to why Time Machine has done a larger backup of iPhoto. You had made changes in iPhoto by importing video. Then you were uploading that video file to Dropbox. You are storing your iPhoto library inside of a disk image file (sparsebundle), which obviously is a single (huge) file. So any time the disk image changes, Time Machine will back up the entire file, which in your case is many gigabytes. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:31 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, been a bit busy and off caravanning for the weekend. But this evening I finally got the Time Tracker downloaded and within a minute or so I could see the ³enormous backup². Whilst Time Machine was saying it¹s 175GB in size, the Actual file from Time Tracker is 148.4GB. So by zooming into the BIG stuff, the culprit is iPhoto. It¹s the folder called ³Masters² responsible for 136GB of the 148.4GB which i presume holds the image Master files and the Thumbnails folder responsible for 9.6GB of the 148GB. This iPhoto library has been backed up before and for months has been routinely doing all the backups normally. Why would it trigger a Full backup of the iPhoto library all over again. I¹ve effectively lost 175GB of space on the backup drive for seemingly no good reason. The Master folder contains beneath it a number of folders one for each year and each of these reports in this backup for their respective sizes I presume. Is there anything I should do? If I do nothing it will proceed ok but I am puzzled why this ³Enormous Backup² had to exist. Thanks for the tip on Time Tracker, it is a beauty. If I blow away the old sparesebundle and rebuild a backup from scratch, I would recover the space but the do nothing option is easier at the moment. Regards Pete. On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:46 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Why did you download Pacifist? I didn't mention Pacifist, you don't want Pacifist! I said to download 'Time Tracker' TimeTracker TimeTracker is a quick-and-dirty application that displays the contents of your Time Machine backups, and shows what's changed since the previous backup. TimeTracker is in an extremely early state, and is as such very unpolished. * Download http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip TimeTracker (prerelease), which works with 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or greater. http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip Cheers, Ronni On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:29 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have downloaded the Pacifist software and in the process of Loading Pete's Macbook (ie Macbook Sparsebundle file). I don't have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet connection so I've gotta do it wirelessly (but I just ordered one) so I expect it will take ages to 'Load'. Oh well, hopefully it will present the culprit taking up huge data volume from my TC backup disc. I have stopped routine TC backups for now - nothing to loose. Whatever is the cause for this I can do one of two things. Either I understand from this exercise what is the cause of this huge data consumption and just leave the sparesebundle alone OR I blow away the sparesebundle and do a complete backup from scratch again and manage the cause of why this all happened so that I can keep the freeboard I had prior to this. Regards Pete On 7 Sep 2014, at 7:20 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Time Tracker http://www.charlessoft.com/ is free; it is pretty basic but usually works well. It only shows backups on the current backup destination, though, so if you've got more than one, you have to select the one you want (if you're using rotating backups, it's the set most recently backed-up to). Time Tracker works by comparing a completed backup you select to the one before it. So if you select a large backup, it¹s going to take a while to determine, calculate, and display the items. If your backups are on a network, connect via Ethernet if possible. It will still take a while, but be
Re: Enormous Time Machine backup
Hi Neil, You are correct. The Time Capsule - Time Machine sparsebundle is not a huge single file. I did realize after I sent my quick reply last night that I had not worded my reply accurately and was going to explain further today... but my work time today has not allowed me to as yet. Peter had a lot going on at the same time - with Data being uploaded to Dropbox, Dropbox probably syncing, Time Machine backing up... All this was happening wirelessly. I will try to clarify later today (when I finish work or find a break in the day) that there can be problems working wirelessly with an iPhoto Library. You can backup iPhoto wirelessly, that's not a problem. It's using it wirelessly that has potential risks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 15 Sep 2014, at 10:17 am, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Peter, Hi Ronni, Ronni, I thought that the difference between the old sparse disk image and the newer sparse bundle was that the sparse bundle is NOT a single huge file but a bundle of small (around 8MB) files which look to the user like one file but allows time machine to just back up whichever files have changed (rather than the whole bundle). Obviously a video is generally much bigger than a few photos so would involve more of the (8mb) files and the backup would be bigger – but should not involve the whole iphoto library – or am I missing something? I don’t use iphoto myself – does it do things differently? Apologies if I have missed the point ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 14/9/14 21:44, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Short answer to why Time Machine has done a larger backup of iPhoto. You had made changes in iPhoto by importing video. Then you were uploading that video file to Dropbox. You are storing your iPhoto library inside of a disk image file (sparsebundle), which obviously is a single (huge) file. So any time the disk image changes, Time Machine will back up the entire file, which in your case is many gigabytes. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:31 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, been a bit busy and off caravanning for the weekend. But this evening I finally got the Time Tracker downloaded and within a minute or so I could see the “enormous backup”. Whilst Time Machine was saying it’s 175GB in size, the Actual file from Time Tracker is 148.4GB. So by zooming into the BIG stuff, the culprit is iPhoto. It’s the folder called “Masters” responsible for 136GB of the 148.4GB which i presume holds the image Master files and the Thumbnails folder responsible for 9.6GB of the 148GB. This iPhoto library has been backed up before and for months has been routinely doing all the backups normally. Why would it trigger a Full backup of the iPhoto library all over again. I’ve effectively lost 175GB of space on the backup drive for seemingly no good reason. The Master folder contains beneath it a number of folders one for each year and each of these reports in this backup for their respective sizes I presume. Is there anything I should do? If I do nothing it will proceed ok but I am puzzled why this “Enormous Backup” had to exist. Thanks for the tip on Time Tracker, it is a beauty. If I blow away the old sparesebundle and rebuild a backup from scratch, I would recover the space but the do nothing option is easier at the moment. Regards Pete. On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:46 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, Why did you download Pacifist? I didn't mention Pacifist, you don't want Pacifist! I said to download 'Time Tracker' TimeTracker TimeTracker is a quick-and-dirty application that displays the contents of your Time Machine backups, and shows what's changed since the previous backup. TimeTracker is in an extremely early state, and is as such very unpolished. Download http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip TimeTracker (prerelease), which works with 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or greater. http://www.charlessoft.com/TimeTracker.zip Cheers, Ronni On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:29 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Ronni, I have downloaded the Pacifist software and in the process of Loading Pete's Macbook (ie Macbook Sparsebundle file). I don't have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet connection so I've gotta do it wirelessly (but I just ordered one) so I expect it will take ages to 'Load'. Oh well, hopefully it will present the culprit taking up huge data volume from my TC backup disc. I have stopped routine TC backups for now - nothing to loose. Whatever is the cause for this I can do one of two things. Either I understand from this exercise what is the cause of this huge data consumption and just leave the
Re: Enormous Time Machine backup
Aha, we shall stay tuned Ronni. Don't stress Ronni it's not urgent Regards Pete. - Original Message - From: wamug@wamug.org.au To:wamug@wamug.org.au Cc: Sent:Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:21:32 +0800 Subject:Re: Enormous Time Machine backup Hi Neil, You are correct. The Time Capsule - Time Machine sparsebundle is not a huge single file. I did realize after I sent my quick reply last night that I had not worded my reply accurately and was going to explain further today... but my work time today has not allowed me to as yet. Peter had a lot going on at the same time - with Data being uploaded to Dropbox, Dropbox probably syncing, Time Machine backing up... All this was happening wirelessly. I will try to clarify later today (when I finish work or find a break in the day) that there can be problems working wirelessly with an iPhoto Library. You can backup iPhoto wirelessly, that's not a problem. It's using it wirelessly that has potential risks. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 15 Sep 2014, at 10:17 am, Neil Houghton wrote: Re: Enormous Time Machine backupHi Peter, Hi Ronni, Ronni, I thought that the difference between the old sparse disk image and the newer sparse bundle was that the sparse bundle is NOT a single huge file but a bundle of small (around 8MB) files which look to the user like one file but allows time machine to just back up whichever files have changed (rather than the whole bundle). Obviously a video is generally much bigger than a few photos so would involve more of the (8mb) files and the backup would be bigger – but should not involve the whole iphoto library – or am I missing something? I don’t use iphoto myself – does it do things differently? Apologies if I have missed the point ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com [2] on 14/9/14 21:44, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com [3] wrote: Hi Peter, Short answer to why Time Machine has done a larger backup of iPhoto. You had made changes in iPhoto by importing video. Then you were uploading that video file to Dropbox. You are storing your iPhoto library inside of a disk image file (sparsebundle), which obviously is a single (huge) file. So any time the disk image changes, Time Machine will back up the entire file, which in your case is many gigabytes. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 14 Sep 2014, at 8:31 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Ronni, been a bit busy and off caravanning for the weekend. But this evening I finally got the Time Tracker downloaded and within a minute or so I could see the “enormous backup”. Whilst Time Machine was saying it’s 175GB in size, the Actual file from Time Tracker is 148.4GB. So by zooming into the BIG stuff, the culprit is iPhoto. It’s the folder called “Masters” responsible for 136GB of the 148.4GB which i presume holds the image Master files and the Thumbnails folder responsible for 9.6GB of the 148GB. This iPhoto library has been backed up before and for months has been routinely doing all the backups normally. Why would it trigger a Full backup of the iPhoto library all over again. I’ve effectively lost 175GB of space on the backup drive for seemingly no good reason. The Master folder contains beneath it a number of folders one for each year and each of these reports in this backup for their respective sizes I presume. Is there anything I should do? If I do nothing it will proceed ok but I am puzzled why this “Enormous Backup” had to exist. Thanks for the tip on Time Tracker, it is a beauty. If I blow away the old sparesebundle and rebuild a backup from scratch, I would recover the space but the do nothing option is easier at the moment. Regards Pete. On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:46 pm, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Why did you download Pacifist? I didn't mention Pacifist, you don't want Pacifist! I said to download 'Time Tracker' TimeTracker TimeTracker is a quick-and-dirty application that displays the contents of your Time Machine backups, and shows what's changed since the previous backup. TimeTracker is in an extremely early state, and is as such very unpolished. * Download [6] TimeTracker (prerelease), which works with 64-bit Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) or greater. [7] Cheers, Ronni On 8 Sep 2014, at 9:29 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Ronni, I have downloaded the Pacifist software and in the process of Loading Pete's Macbook (ie Macbook Sparsebundle file). I don't have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet connection so I've gotta do it wirelessly (but I just ordered one) so I expect it will take ages to 'Load'. Oh well, hopefully it will present the culprit taking up huge data volume from my TC backup disc. I have stopped routine TC backups for now - nothing to loose. Whatever is the cause for this I can do one of two things. Either I understand from this exercise what is the cause of this huge data consumption and just
