In article <s57jn31je14mplbumsa7945li5hahmalbk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Barry OGrady <god_free_jones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have a Powemac G4 which came with a 10 gig hard drive.
> It has OSX 10.4 and Classic installed. The disk is full and I
> can't see any large files I can delete to free up space.
> I added a 20 gig hard drive as slave on the same controller
> and OSX sees it OK.
> I'd like to know the best way to use the 20 gig drive to free
> up space on the 10 gig drive without reinstalling OSX.
> With OS 9 I was able to initialise the new HD with disk utility
> and just drag and drop the files across. That doesn't seem
> to work with OSX.
> Would it work if I just moved the applications folder to the
> 20 gig drive, or must I reinstall everything?
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Barry
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Hi Barry,
Migration Assistant located at:
/Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant
Will take care of this for you. You'll need to install Tiger on the new
drive first, once you've done that it'll automatically launch Migration
Assistant the first time you reboot from that volume.
Just use the 'From another volume on this Mac' and let it do it's thing
(shouldn't take long with only 10GB of stuff).
Otherwise, you can just use the second drive to store large files
(should you have any) that you don't need access to very often.
Just another thought - you can 'trim' down the MacOS install by doing a
custom install. From memory the Language translations and printer
drivers take up a fairly hefty 4-5GB of space.
Cheers,
Andy.
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