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Quote: Originally Posted by smax In general, RAID 0 is a bad idea. Not needing redundancy is one thing, but purposefully making your external drive MORE prone to failure is pretty stupid in my book. Any other suggestions for an expendable sto…
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Hey there, I've been giving the whole thing some more thought (and been consulting some guys) and I got to the conclusion that I was probably going in the wrong path. It seems that a better solution is upgrading the internal HD of my Mac (I've see…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smax OK, I gotta get to bed, but I'll post this for you to chew on and for other people to correct me on. OK, here's the quick rundown on RAID from someone who's never dealt with it personally and doesn't know every…
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Quote: Originally Posted by smax Wait, two drives to go into one enclosure, or 2 separate enclosures to mirror each other (or to just have one as a backup?)? Sorry, your wording's a bit vague. Just one enclosure. I planned to put 2 drives int…
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Hey, I was planning to purchase 2 drives so that one would mirror the other (if you think I should better buy more - let me know). Regarding RAID setup - haven't decided yet. I understand 5 is good. I have a 24" iMac (previous gen) and I don't h…
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I did. What more information do you need? Attached is the DVD map.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Me iDVD is template-based. The menus are determined by the template. How is it skipping the them? I created menus and everyhing that's needed. However, when I try playing the DVD in my player, it doesn't show th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Occasionally you will get random glitches on a machine that happen due to corrupted hard drive sectors and the only way to really get rid of those is to back stuff up and zero the drive as it skips the bad secto…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin One thing to try is make a new user and log in as them and try doing an empty trash, iphone backup etc. I tried this a while ago and some of the things that don't work for me now under any circumstances - wor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lirand Anyway, I found the file on that path you mentioned and deleted it. Opened iTunes again and it was recreated. However the backups still do not show up.... (I initiated another backup of course) Besides, why c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you go into your home folder/library/preferences, the files should be there. If you were searching the root of the computer, or even the home folder, those files should have appeared. Anyway, I found the f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lirand Should I conduct this search from any special place? Performing this search from the main Finder window returns zero results This is weird... I'm finding other com.apple files but no com.apple.itunes... Wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It's odd that it backs up files to that location but doesn't put them in the list. The list is directly related to the MobileSync folder because if I move the contents of that folder on mine, the backups list be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Did you unplug the iphone? If not you should unplug and then plug it in and then hit the sync button. This should create a restorable backup in the list. You might have to make some changes to your iphone for it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you had a corrupted backup, restoring an old one maybe brought in a backup from an earlier version of itunes. Try moving the mobilesync folder to another location like the desktop and doing an iphone backup. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you have several backups, do they all fail to restore? The steps I'd say to try would be to move the folders inside the Mobilesync folder somewhere else but safe. Then backup your iphone using a sync. This…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lirand Thanks again. Mobilesync-backup has several folders in it that each seem to contain a backup. After I re-create this folder, should I move the older folders inside it, or perhaps take one of the current folde…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you had a corrupted backup, restoring an old one maybe brought in a backup from an earlier version of itunes. Try moving the mobilesync folder to another location like the desktop and doing an iphone backup. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Did you do anything to your home folder like change usernames or something? The backup folder shouldn't have anything to do with /private/var (which you can open using the go menu in the Finder and go to folder)…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Did you do anything to your home folder like change usernames or something? The backup folder shouldn't have anything to do with /private/var (which you can open using the go menu in the Finder and go to folder)…