On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Dan wrote:
At 10:45 AM -0700 3/18/2012, JohnCarmonne wrote:
I have a drive with a 39Gig 10.5.8 system and when I make a CCC of it on
another drive it produces a 22.3 Gig file I've done it several times and I
get the same results. I have the entire source drive
On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Dan wrote:
At 10:45 AM -0700 3/18/2012, JohnCarmonne wrote:
I have a drive with a 39Gig 10.5.8 system and when I make a CCC of it on
another drive it produces a 22.3 Gig file I've done it several times and I
get the same results. I have the entire source drive
On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:45 PM, gifutiger wrote:
John,
If it is your Spotlight then click on the Spy Glass in the
upper right corner and you should see a message that Spotlight is
indexing your system. If you have more than one drive then the
message will say which drive is being indexed.
At 11:48 PM -0700 3/18/2012, John Carmonne wrote:
Upon closer inspection with TinkerTool I found a 16GB file called
sleepimage. and erased it. So I checked some more drives and
some have it and some don't.
Macs support two Sleep Modes.
Normal sleep powers down everything except RAM.
Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached to
Windows laptops?
Dr. Paul J. Cefola
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Buffalo (SUNY)
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On Mar 19, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Dan wrote:
At 11:48 PM -0700 3/18/2012, John Carmonne wrote:
Upon closer inspection with TinkerTool I found a 16GB file called
sleepimage. and erased it. So I checked some more drives and some have
it and some don't.
Macs support two Sleep Modes.
Normal
On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Paul Cefola wrote:
Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached
to Windows laptops?
no idea. However this machine -IS- usually networked with the iMAC (I.
83GHz INtel Core Duo 10.6.8) and both have several HD's attached.
If it is
At 8:02 AM -0700 3/19/2012, John Carmonne wrote:
That's a good feature for my MacBook Pro's. So I guess the way it
got on some of my iMacs and Mac Pro was due to a CCC that I used to
set up those machines.
No, not part of the cloning. The setting is in the nvram. In
addition the laptops,
My external drive with five partitions is formated APM. My CCC backups
boot my g4 iBook with Leopard 10.5.8 plus two Intel iMacs and one
Macbook, all with with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I got all the help I needed several years ago on these lowendmac e-
lists. At the time, Apple tech support pages
On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:27 AM, JohnV wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Paul Cefola wrote:
Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached to Windows
laptops?
no idea. However this machine -IS- usually networked with the iMAC (I.83GHz
INtel Core Duo 10.6.8) and
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt.
Turning off Spotlight can be done, but then it disables the
Finder's Find command as well.
I wouldn;t think I'd WANT to disable SPOTLIGHT if it can work right.
As Dan mentioned,
On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:35 AM, JohnV wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt.
Turning off Spotlight can be done, but then it disables the Finder's Find
command as well.
I wouldn;t think I'd WANT to disable
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote
It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt.
Here's a good site for fixing problems like that:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so.
Inside the
At 10:26 AM -0700 3/19/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I've found that the main thing with Spotlight index rebuilding is to
leave the computer completely alone while it does this; start the
rebuild before you go to bed and let it run overnight. This results
in a clean rebuild of the index and
On Mar 19, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Dan wrote:
At 8:02 AM -0700 3/19/2012, John Carmonne wrote:
That's a good feature for my MacBook Pro's. So I guess the way it
got on some of my iMacs and Mac Pro was due to a CCC that I used to
set up those machines.
No, not part of the cloning. The setting
=== I have tried everything to get it to boot 10.5 on G4 and MacBook(Intel)
nothing works. Here is the info on the drive:
USB:
Portable:
Capacity: 465.76 GB
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Version: 1.30
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to
On Mar 19, 2012, at 9:18 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
Why do you want to disable this feature? Safe Sleep is a Good Thing. It
lets you *fully* sleep the computer, not just sortof sleep while still
sucking some power.
The problem comes when I have a 40 GB HDD with 22GB's volume and
On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Dan wrote:
Why do you want to disable this feature? Safe Sleep is a Good
Thing. It lets you *fully* sleep the computer, not just sortof sleep
while still sucking some power.
And the size of the SleepImage file is always identical to the amount
of RAM you
At 2:25 PM -0400 3/19/2012, JohnV wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote
It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt.
Here's a good site for fixing problems like that:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
this worked great... or seems to be in the
On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Dan wrote:
this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so.
Inside the SPOTLIGHT preferences I 'prevented' all the attached
and internal drives, then undid that. It is now indexing, the
SPOTLIGHT icon is active, and when I click on that icon it
Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive
place...) for how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or
aplication-specific?
Example: I open a program, call up a document or image to work on
that is stored in a specific folder where it belongs. I change it
some and
On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote:
Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive place...) for
how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or aplication-specific?
Example: I open a program, call up a document or image to work on that is
stored in a specific
On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote:
Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive
place...) for how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or
aplication-specific?
This is typically managed by the application.
On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:08 PM, JohnV wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote:
Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive place...) for
how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or aplication-specific?
At 6:08 PM -0400 3/19/2012, JohnV wrote:
On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Wopuld you know if there is there a trend towards a common place to
address [file open/save dialogs]?
App developers violate the Apple guidelines often. It can be frustrating.
Default Folder X is the
My DPs do this sometimes. It has always been a heat on boot issue, and
usually occurs when there is excessive heat prior to cooling system
engagement (hot summer days here in Raleigh can do this). When the coolant
comes on heat is fine. Try putting it in a better-ventelated place.
-- --
Illirik
So I took out all the ram, and double checked each module. I replaced
modules just to be sure I had them all matched up. I powered on the
computer, it beeped once, then chimed, and booted into open firmware. The
message at the top of the screen said: Device still fails after x
recoveries.
In
On Mar 19, 12:53 pm, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:
=== I have tried everything to get it to boot 10.5 on G4 and MacBook(Intel)
nothing works. Here is the info on the drive:
USB:
Portable:
Capacity: 465.76 GB
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name:
Il giorno 19-03-2012 19:47, Illirik Smirnov ha scritto:
My DPs do this sometimes. It has always been a heat on boot issue
[...]
Try putting it in a better-ventelated place.
Not my case, since it happens on cold boot and regardless of external
temperature (it's still a cool winter here now).
Il giorno 19-03-2012 23:06, Bruce Johnson ha scritto:
Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive place...) for
how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or aplication-specific?
This is typically managed by the application. Some apps, like Office and
Photoshop, will
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