Forum: General
11-11-2009, 12:07 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 16,660
Using a sand box to "play with" a new major...
Using a sand box to "play with" a new major release of the OS is a bad idea.
Between major releases the bundled applications (Mail, iCal, Address Book, etc.) will often change how they store user...
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Forum: General
11-10-2009, 12:28 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 10,583
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Forum: General
11-06-2009, 04:06 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 14,664
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Forum: General
10-30-2009, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 8,717
Yes, the Option-boot menu will probe for all...
Yes, the Option-boot menu will probe for all bootable volumes (internal, FireWire, USB) and present them. Even if you have a non-bootable internal disk, any external disks you have attached will show...
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Forum: General
10-30-2009, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 8,717
To boot from an alternate device, hold down...
To boot from an alternate device, hold down Option while booting the computer. You will get a boot menu. Pick your FireWire drive from that menu.
To restore, just use SuperDuper! to “Backup - all...
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Forum: General
10-11-2009, 05:51 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 21,016
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Forum: General
09-29-2009, 04:16 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,477
"Restore - all files" is only needed when a...
"Restore - all files" is only needed when a single volume is used for both a SuperDuper! backup and Time Machine snapshots. The difference from "Backup - all files" is that “Restore” will not copy...
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Forum: General
09-23-2009, 11:33 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,533
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Forum: General
08-15-2009, 12:30 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 7,301
Are you sure it is really hanging? While...
Are you sure it is really hanging? While SuperDuper! is copying a very large file there are no status updates (except for elapsed time?).
Although Smart Update would skip such a large file on...
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Forum: General
08-15-2009, 12:06 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 12,197
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Forum: General
08-14-2009, 11:55 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 12,197
It is an iBook G4 with an apparently...
It is an iBook G4 with an apparently broken/flakey ATA controller (if any HD is attached, the system eventually stops working). Maybe it is a bad solder joint, maybe it is just another marginal iBook...
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Forum: General
08-14-2009, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 12,197
First, SuperDuper! will always try to make it...
First, SuperDuper! will always try to make it possible to boot a destination volume if the source volume was bootable. This does not mean that the machine will automatically boot from such a...
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Forum: General
08-05-2009, 12:12 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 14,415
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Forum: General
08-01-2009, 12:58 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 15,959
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Forum: General
07-22-2009, 01:49 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 31,521
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Forum: General
07-21-2009, 03:37 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 15,959
I have never heard of a Mac booting off of an...
I have never heard of a Mac booting off of an drive with solely an MBR partition (discounting the GPT/MBR hybrid that Boot Camp can create), but I suppose it is possible (after all, Intel Macs...
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Forum: General
06-26-2009, 03:48 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 21,000
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Forum: General
06-24-2009, 12:52 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 7,656
Yes, you can use SuperDuper! to backup your...
Yes, you can use SuperDuper! to backup your existing system before installing Leopard.
As you guessed, you can even 'migrate' your data onto a clean install directly from the backup. And yes,...
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Forum: General
06-24-2009, 12:44 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,090
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Forum: General
06-17-2009, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 20,958
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Forum: General
06-17-2009, 12:53 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 20,958
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Forum: General
06-15-2009, 11:29 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 15,074
The "initial boot" migration is special in that...
The "initial boot" migration is special in that it has a better chance or migrating everything with as few changes as possible. Migrations can be done after that, but they may not work as well (among...
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Forum: General
06-14-2009, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 10,466
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Forum: General
06-10-2009, 11:57 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 7,062
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Forum: General
06-10-2009, 01:46 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,618
That is also my understanding. A stopped SD!...
That is also my understanding. A stopped SD! backup will leave the destination with some "new" files (ones copied before it is stopped) and some "old" files (those not yet processed before the backup...
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