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OK thanks I did have a backups, going back three months with Time Machine, on a 1TB internal drive, but soon after installing SL, the Trash can stopped emptying properly, so each backup ended up being over 500gb. Luckily I do have 4 HDD's in this machine (Boot drive, User home folder drive, Data/Scratch disk and Time machine. Airplane Icons. So I imagine I could copy all my Scratch Disk data on to the User HDD, and try an insatll on the now empty Data Scratch disk drive. Would that work? Dragon Ball Z Legends Pc Game. It would mean effectively having two OS's installed on separate drives.

If it all works I can then erase the Old Machinstosh HD and make the new install the permanent boot drive.wold that be possible? Would it work, I mean can you permanently change which drive the machine boots off as you could in the BIOS of PC? Oct 14, 2009 10:07 AM.

Neil Paisnel wrote: I did have a backups, going back three months with Time Machine, on a 1TB internal drive, but soon after installing SL, the Trash can stopped emptying properly, so each backup ended up being over 500gb. Could you explain more about this?

What do you mean by the trash can not emptying 'properly'? Where were you seeing Time Machine report that each backup was 500 GB? If you were just looking at the size of the dated Time Machine backup folders via Finder or Terminal, you were not seeing an accurate indication of backup size: while it appears that each dated backup contains a copy of every file relevant to that date, there is actually only one version of each unique file on the Time Machine drive. Luckily I do have 4 HDD's in this machine (Boot drive, User home folder drive, Data/Scratch disk and Time machine. How specifically have you moved & linked your user home folder to a non-startup drive?

This may be part of your problem. Oct 14, 2009 4:16 PM. Ok, Thanks Barry, My data is safe so that is ok, I use a Scheduled Chronosync every night to a NAS box in the attic. So anything else although a lot of work agro, will not be a data loss issue. I had seen the Startup disk option in Sys Prefs, but was not sure if it was a 'once only' change or was a permanent Startup disk selection. RC-R.I' did not elaborate further as it was not strictly related to what i was asking, but here are the answers/reasons. R C-R wrote: Could you explain more about this?

Samsung Sgh D780 Flash File more. What do you mean by the trash can not emptying 'properly'? What I mean is that although the trash icon showed empty and with Hidden files and folders set to 'Show' in Finder, nothing appeared in the Trash Can or in the.trashes folder in Finder. BUT JDiskReport showed the trash can as having something like 300GB that could not be deleted. ( a duplicate iTunes folder i created before doing some major pruning of music stored in iTunes) Even using ls with various options from the Terminal failed to show the stuck folder in the Trash. See my post about this that no one could help me with: Where were you seeing Time Machine report that each backup was 500 GB? If you were just looking at the size of the dated >Time Machine backup folders via Finder or Terminal, you were not seeing an accurate indication of backup size: while it >appears that each dated backup contains a copy of every file relevant to that date, there is actually only one version of each >unique file on the Time Machine drive. What I was seeing was Time machine reporting not being able to complete another backup, as there was not enough space left on the drive.

I clicked on the TM icon in the dock, and saw that instead of having backups going back many months, I only had one backup from the previous hour. If I looked at the TM drive in Finder, it showed just the one dated backup subfolder within the backup.backupdb folder and that was over 700GB I understand how TM does its backups using 'hardlinks'. I use a similar system on my FreeNAS backup box using a script and rsync to create a rotating 'snapshot' style backup up of the old Dell PC. So yes, if you looked at the size of each individual backup and added them all together, then you would have backups totalling a figure much greater than would be possible to fit on the drive For the first few months Time Machine was fine until the drive started getting full and every hour or so when TM did a backup it was asking me about deleting older backups. So I turned off the 'Notify after old backups are deleted' option. Each individual backup had got so big with the stuck folder in.Trashes that all previous backups had been deleted. Now, I thought.trashes folders were automatically excluded from TM backups, but it seems in this case that they were somehow being included, and the deleted iTunes library folder was somehow stuck in there and being backed up.