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Re: G4 Disk full

by Charlie <puffinNO_SPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jan 1, 2008 at 04:47 PM

In article <s57jn31je14mplbumsa7945li5hahmalbk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 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
> =====
> Home page
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og


Download SuperDuper trial mode.  Clone the original drive to the new one.

I did a similar exercise a while ago - pretty painless.

Ended up buying the full version of SD for back ups...

Cheers

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Cheers

Charlie

Feel free to make fun of my music here:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~puffin/mp3.html
 




 4 Posts in Topic:
G4 Disk full
Barry OGrady <god_free  2008-01-01 13:06:12 
Re: G4 Disk full
Andy <no@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-01-01 18:27:17 
Re: G4 Disk full
Charlie <puffinNO_SPAM  2008-01-01 16:47:24 
Re: G4 Disk full
denis <denis@[EMAIL PR  2008-01-01 21:37:29 

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