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oceanicitl
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Go in to Terminal sudo -s [password] ditto --rsrc -V [drop folder you're copying from] [drop folder you're copying to] Works a treat  _________________Still the official cheeky one 
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| Mon May 18, 2009 2:11 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Ace, and seeing as you near enough have root privileges, you could do the whole file system/disk?
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| Mon May 18, 2009 5:33 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Hey all, In a similar vein to my last post. I'm planning to upgrade my hard drive from 80GB to 200GB. I have the hard drive, I'm hoping it's the right size...I think it may be a little too thin... Anyhoo, can I use Time Machine to plop everything back on the new drive? I'm running Leopard now, and will obviously stick with that on the new hard drive. I don't know if it's a problem, bit Time Machine is running off a USB external drive, not Firewire... Thanks very much Ben
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HeatherKay
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I think you'll get the option to use a TM backup when you install Leopard on the new disk.
I did this for a friend's Mac mini. It took bloody hours, and that was with FireWire, but it did work. Rebooted, and it was as if nothing had changed save the huge hard drive space!
_________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Excellent, thanks Heather  Did it ever need promoting for anything? Or was it completely happy sitting there chugging along by itself? If the latter I may just leave it overnight  Thanks again
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| Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:07 am |
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HeatherKay
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I seem to recall that once you've set it going it just does its thing. So, yes, I'd leave it overnight - at least start as late as possible so you can be eating breakfast as it finishes, just in case. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Many thanks Heather, it's updated, took about an hour, which isn't bad for about 60gb of stuff to copy I've now got lots of space for virtual machines and the like *dances* Ben
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rustybucket
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Which is what I said repeatedly to the other developers in OpenSUSE world but it seems that nobody is listening. Hmmm... (thinks about purchasing a mac)_________________Jim
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