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26th?

It's on the 27th (and technically it's a "major product announcement", not a conference). Tablet announcement with possible announcement of iPhone SDK 4.0 and potential announcement of new iPhone model.

cheers both

ok so time machine is ridiculously amazing

i finally got my backup system in shape - a 500GB external drive partitioned in two equal halves - one half for Time Machine and the other half for monthly SuperDuper backups. the idea is that if my laptop HD fails I can immediately boot up with SuperDuper, then restore to ca. 1 hour ago with Time Machine.

(without SuperDuper you'd need to go to the shop, buy a new HD, come home, then restore with Time Machine - this way you can be back up and running within minutes)

i'm on the same plan, though I use Carbon Copy Cloner instead

(without SuperDuper you'd need to go to the shop, buy a new HD, come home, then restore with Time Machine - this way you can be back up and running within minutes)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, January 18, 2010 9:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean boot straight to the super duper drive?

cuz either way wouldn't you need to get a new drive?

Perhaps - if it's just corruption and not a hardware failure, you could just boot off the external and pull a full restore, either by copying the clone backover or using a TM backup. Even if it is physically damaged, you can be up and running immediately and getting what you can off the bad drive.

doesn't time machine cripple anyone else's machine? so slow.

yes, boot directly to the superduper partition/drive so that you can carry on working, grabbing files from your time machine backup if you need them

then when you have some free time you can buy a new HD and restore from whatever's the most current

presumably one can also restore from TM to the working superduper as well.

Also if your superduper drive fits your computer, hey presto you can swap.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/top.jpg

should I sell my 17" MBP and get a 27" iMac? Turns out the 17" is too much of a pain to carry anywhere so it's just getting desktop duty.

yeah Ed that is actually my plan - to restore to the superduper partition - but I've never ascertained if it's a thing that ppl actually do - but why not? it's a full working bootable system

Before TM, I used Carbon copy cloner with much the same strategy and it saved my bacon. Just dropped the backup disk into the machine and away you go.

Judging by that 'latest creation' graphic, it'll be an updated version of this.

lot of people seem do be doing the superduper/cloner + time machine combo.

It's just easier to restore. I have my system drive + applications cloaning w/ superduper to a second drive every night. Then i have my 2 data drives being backed up w/ Time Machine. I did have a problem with my start up drive so I just booted from the dupe, wiped the start-up drive clean, and restored it from the dupe and it's like nothing ever happened.

new bootcamp today! I was already running w7 but hopefully this'll make things better

Tracer - I've booted from a SuperDuper! backup and then immediately used SuperDuper! to create a working copy of itself back on the original drive. Works fine. But...can't you just boot from your install CD and immediately create the same thing you're talking about by using the "transfer my data from Time Machine" option?

the install CD doesn't have all my apps and email, which i could conceivably need before i could get to a store, buy a new HD, and restore

Ah, I was just thinking of getting your system back in order, which would only work if the drive itself was fine...not running from the install disk of course.

deleted my HD and reinstalled OS X earlier this week; didn't even back up beforehand

all music/media/docs etc were on an external disc, only thing I lost were prefs and some programs w/e

computer is like new now tho; so zippy

thinkin abt doin this

do that at least once a/year - so worth it

Really? I know this is common in Windows-world but I've never heard of anyone doing it regularly with a Mac.

mine was a dog (2yo macbook and couldn't watch a youtube w/out stuttering) before I did because I bought into the 'doesn't need doing on OS X' myth but so glad I did it, as I say comp is like new

is this easy to do while preserving yr home folder or whatever?

i suspect the increased zippiness is because a new system doesn't include any of the startup items, prefpanes, menubar widgets etc. once you put all those back it will be the same.

no intention in putting any of those back in

yeah i dl and fuck w/so much software - most of which i never end up using consistently - so its just a mater of preserving the prefs etc of the stuff i do use and reinstalling

the sluggishness is mostly due to bumf you put in your ~/Library folder rather than stuff elsewhere on the disc. it's not the clean reinstall that is giving you speed back, it's the new home directory.

i don't bother with reinstalling as a rule, but I do occasionally do some housekeeping in ~/Library. i do a clean install when i upgrade, but still running 10.5 here, and will be until i finish my phd.

~/Library/Fonts has been a major offender for me in the past

what should i be cleaing out of my library?

^^^

i mean, i want to know too, not that max should be cleaned out of anyone's library

this home folder dates back to 10.1. hadn't thought about that before, woah.

i would like to know about the Library as well

w7 running much faster than snow leopard on my Mbp. would like to know too

fonts you don't use in ~/Library/Fonts (or /Library/Fonts, but not /System) is the main thing ime (although this can be done with a font manager if you are a nerd)

if you have the energy, you could create a new ~/Library and move stuff back in, which is much quicker than a clean install and, unless you did something weird to the rest of your disk, will likely fix 90% of the problem.

tbh though, i really don't bother with this. e.g. preference files for apps you no longer use make no difference. shit can get out of hand, but it's always for a reason, unlike windows.

i use AppTrap (like a free AppZapper): i assume it gets most stuff lying around, but i guess maybe there's application support stuff in my library? would that slow things down?

in principle stuff like that, unused preferences, etc. should make no difference.

caches can get huge and fucked up; you can dump most of them. Your next boot will be slow as hell, but it'll be faster after.

unless you actually use the corresponding application, all anything in ~/Library/Preferences and ~/Library/Application Support/ should be doing is taking up disk space

o were supposed to listen to u mr 10.5 pffft

rebuilding itunes was O_O

I have never done a complete reinstall except for the time I had a hard drive failure and even then, i think I copied my previous home directory over. I've even copied my home directory (~/Library intact) from laptop to laptop.

BTW, installing all your apps to ~/Applications unless they're ones that use an installer or need to be installed system-wide makes app management easy