Are you using USB? Is it on a USB bus with other drives that may be in use? That would suck up the already limited bandwidth on a USB chain. Firewire 800 seems to take a couple hours or less for most of my migrations.
Bob On May 14, 2012, at 11:29 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > my statements may have appeared contradictory in the previous message. > > 1. I did a apple store* Lion 10.7.4* "on top of" a previous installation on > Saturday. 9 hours > 2. I did a fresh 10.7.4 re-install on Sunday. 18 hours > > re-written: > > summary of my 'lost weekend': > > 1. Installing apple store* Lion 10.7.4* "on top of" a previous > installation worked better, but still took over 4 minutes to completely > boot up. Some applications will still seem sluggish when starting up. No > beachball though. It took about 9 hours to install. Most disturbing on this > install is the progress indicator, telling me 36 hours at first, but later > settling into alternating between 24 and 12. In other words, progress > indicators don't mean squat. > > 2. I finally did a fresh 10.7.4 re-install on Sunday. > A 'fresh' install of 10.7.4 with migrated files will take less than a > minute to completely boot up. Things seem pretty normal now. It took 18 > hours for this latest apple store version to install and move all the files > (via migration assistant). I can imagine it would take a couple of days > if I had a filled 1TB disk and tried to do this. > > 3. A 'fresh' install of 10.7.4 without migrating my thousands of documents > and hundreds of applications is blindingly fast and boots faster than the > above. > > other settings that may help avoid Mr. Beachball and delays: > > Turn off the 'size' checkbox and 'show icon preview' in folder prefs, then > click "use as defaults" > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > > more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
