No, I would never do that. I know USB was made for keyboards and dongles and useless for big data movement. This was done on a new Mac Pro copying between internal drives. (there are 4 possible on a Pro).
The installers and migrators appear to be much slower than 'regular' file copy. I have a lot of files. Over a million. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
