Intel Mac :: External Hard Drive Runs Out Of Space?

Jun 28, 2012

I am currently using a 2TB external hard drive to access all my photos and music when working with Lightroom 4 and iTunes.  My 2TB storage space is almost getting full and has started me wondering what I'd need to do to continue working this way.  I'm assuming even if I get another 2 or 3TB external hard drive, I'd still have to select only 1 external hard drive for Lightroom to access...  Same goes for iTunes.  What if I have music in both external hard drives?

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IMac (Intel) :: Moving Files To External Drive Not Creating Hard Disk Space

Sep 2, 2014

My 500gb iMac (purchased April 2010) is about at capacity.  350gb of space is taken up by home movies (.mov) in iMovie.  I bought an external hard drive and have moved about 200gb over to that drive. 

After transfer, I deleted the original Events off iMovie and emptied the trash.  I checked in both iMovie and in Finder and no longer see those files present on the Mac.   

I thought this was going smooth and everything worked perfectly, but….when i went to check how much storage space i created on the Mac, the amount of available space barely budged (i moved 200gb of data to the new drive and i created about 30gb of space on the Mac). 

Are these "deleted" files hidden somewhere and I need to go delete from somewhere else?  How do I make sure I get back the storage that i need? 

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Aug 25, 2010

I've been using a LaCie Quadra 2TB Hard drive for a little over a month now.

I've been noticing in that time that whenever I have the HD mounted my system seems to run slower in that it has lots of sporadic hang ups. I get the spinning beachball in all sorts of programs from Safari to Microsoft Word.

I am of course assuming the Hard drive is to blame, so I was wondering:

Can running an external hard drive (for use with Time Machine and general storage) slow a system down (in particular applications)?

The hard drive is a 7200rpm drive and its connected via firewire 800 if that is of any importance.

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Jan 2, 2011

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Sep 17, 2010

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Jul 18, 2010

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Jun 3, 2012

Where do I view the space left on my external hard drive?

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Jul 27, 2010

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Software :: Hard Drive Space - Putting Music On Portable External Disk?

Apr 20, 2009

I have a 15' macbook pro 250 gb HD 2 gb mem. And in the activity monitor it is showing space utilized 228.53 gb and free space at 4.04 gb? And I have only had the laptop for less than 2 years now, Is this normal? Is there a way to erase items so I have alot more free space? I also have an portable external hard 320 gb I use to back up my hard drive. Will this save my music and important items so I can erase items (music, etc.) off of hard drive? then when i need those items just plug the portable hard drive in? I really need my music for I am a DJ.

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Jun 21, 2014

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Intel Mac :: Computer's Hard Drive Space Keeps Changing?

Mar 19, 2012

My computer's hard drive space keeps changing. For exaomple, there are 50 GB free space, and then a few hrs later I will check the info again and it will read 47 GB free, 45 GB free, etc. It keeps changing throughout the day. I have not downloaded anything, not added any files, just browsed the web. Why does it keep chaning like that? Usually when I restart the computer, it reads what it normally should, eg. 50 GB free.

Info:
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Intel Mac :: Loss Of Disc Space From The Hard Drive?

Apr 13, 2012

I have recently started working from home on my mac - in the last 2 weeks 30gb of space has dissappeared off my hard drive - i cant find it

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Intel Mac :: Stop Loosing Hard Drive Space?

May 26, 2012

my hard drive has gone from 266g to 32 in one day what is the primary cause-model Name:iMac  Model Identifier:iMac5,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.16 GHz Number Of Processors: 1  Total Number Of Cores:2 L2 Cache:4 MB  Memory: 2.5 GB System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8

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IMac (Intel) :: No Space On Backup Hard Drive?

Dec 11, 2014

I am unable to move files from a 250 GB backup hard drive to a 1.0 TB b/c I keep getting the warning that isn’t enough space. Get Info says that 999.72 GB on it are in use. But the 1.0 TB was almost empty. If I add up the space of each of the 3 or 4 items on it, I get less than 20GB. What’s taking up the other 979 GB?For background, I now have iMac backed up with LaCie 2Big NAS system. The 250 GB is primarily to hold iPhoto Library and backup copies of original photos. the 250 GB is full. So I am trying to switch over from 250 to the 1.0 TB for photos. Moved a few smaller files over, but then could move no more. Thought of running disk utility to erase the 1.0 TB, but now I can’t move the few files on it back to 250 GB, but of error message that it too is full.I did run Repair Disk on 1.0TB before started trying to move files.

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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), MBA (10.9.5) iPhone 4S, iOS 7.1.2

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Jun 27, 2014

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MacBook Pro :: Time Machine Backup Fails Due To Lack Of Space, Although Plenty Of Space Available On External Drive?

Mar 14, 2012

I've bought a 1 TB iomega ego mac edition II external fire wire drive. Once connected it asked whether i want to create a password and whether i want my data encrypted, to which i answered yes. Then a time machine backup started and failed after backing up 5.25 GB out of 39 GB of my data with the following error: "The backup disk ran out of space unexpectedly. Time Machine will try to make more space available by removing expired backups during the next scheduled backup". When i look at time machine it shows there is 994.29 GB available on iomega ego drive. The drive then went into: "Encrypting Backup Disk" message and it takes forever.

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Intel Mac :: Using External Hard Drive As Both A Boot Drive And Timemachine Backup?

Mar 8, 2012

My internal 1TB hard drive on my iMac is dead and I don't have the money to replace it at the moment. I have everything backed up on an external 1TB drive using Time Machine. As a workaround for the time being,Is there any way I can install the system on the external drive and use that as the boot drive without erasing the Time Machine Backups?  It seems to me I would have to have two partitions for the external drive, one for the system, and one for Time Machine. But is there any way to add a partition without erasing the existing one with Time Machine only on it?  

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Jul 5, 2012

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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Intel Mac :: HD Space Disappearing And Missing 100 GB Of Hard Disk Space?

Mar 21, 2012

Can anyone explain to me why, on my iMac's 500GB hard drive, the displayed size of the only 4 items on it is 207GB, that the info box on the HD itself says 393GB used?  Unless I failed grade 1 math, 500GB - 207GB = 293GB, right?  So where's the missing ~100GB?  That's a lot of space I know I haven't filled up. 

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 24" 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

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MacBook :: Runs Really Slow - Hard Drive Got Corrupted - Bad Logic Board

Nov 12, 2010

i had a 2006 macbook core duo that ran really nice with snow leopard, recently the logic board died so it hasn't been used for a month, i got parts from my friend and now running a 1.83ghz core 2 duo logicboard in its place. the big problem what i think is the hard drive got corrupted due to the bad logic board, when i first put the hard drive back in it wouldn't boot except into safe mode and after i repaired permissions it would boot. however it still starts up slow and os performance seems sluggish and if i run disk utility it always has permissions to fix and takes forever.

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Intel Mac :: Using External Hard Drive For It?

Jun 12, 2012

I think that my internal hard drive crashed, my imac is 5 years old. Can I use an external hard drive for my computer? If so, what kind should I get (brand, memory size, connection - firewire, etc.)?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Intel Mac :: Can't See External Hard Drive

Jul 1, 2012

I plug in a Toshiba 500 Gb External Hard drive and it doesn't show up on the desktop, in the finder window or in Disk Utility. It shows up in all those places on my work iMac and my son's laptop. why my computer doesn't recognize it?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 w/4GB memory

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Intel Mac :: It Does Not Recognize External Hard Drive

Mar 3, 2012

My external hard drive (Iomega powered 1TB hard drive) that I had as the Time Machine target recently filled up  - I have 500GB on 1TB iMac - yet TM showed 999GB. I removed this hard drive and installed a WD USB powered 1TB and this keeps disconnecting - suspect by iMac. TM on System Preferences will not allow me to select the hard drive - I have to remove and reconnect the USB lead to allow the iMac to see it

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Intel Mac :: External Hard Drive Crash

Mar 28, 2012

Pretty sure my external hard drive has crashed.  I have unplugged and reconnected the USB, restarted the mac but it is just gone and the Mac can't find it.  

I keep my itunes and iphoto files on this hd.  I use Time machine as the back up.  My question is if I buy a new external HD, how do I recover everything from the time machine backup?

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Intel Mac :: External Hard Drive Not Recognized

Apr 11, 2012

I recently invested in a refurbished iMac which is running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D2001).

I am trying to access my existing external hard drive through the machine and although this lights up when plugged in, it doesn't appear in the finder.  Other Memory sticks work without problem.

It is a Western Digital Elements 160GB Portable Hard Drive that has worked and continues to do so without problem on my ancient iBook G4.

Info:
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Intel Mac :: Mount An External Hard Drive?

May 21, 2012

I have a Lacie 1TB external hard drive that keeps disconnecting from my Time machine to back up data.how to remount, I can not find it anywhere .....

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Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

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Intel Mac :: Backup An External Hard Drive?

Jun 12, 2012

How do you back up an external hard drive? My iphoto library is on an external hard drive, and I want to make a back up.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Intel Mac :: External Hard Drive Reformat?

Jun 29, 2012

I purchased an external hard drive ( a Seagate 2 TB Expansion Desktop Drive) and was told by the MAC rep in the store to perform the following simple task to reformat the disk so I could drag and drop files from my iMAC and store them on the external hard drive: 

1. Go to Disk Utility

2. Choose the External Hard Drive

3. Select Erase

4. Select MAC OS Extended (Journaled)

5. Click on Erase button 

Unfortunately when I do this, I get the following error: Disk erase Failed with Error: File system formatter failed? I have Mac OS X (10.5.8)...

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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Intel Mac :: Transfer Data To External Hard Drive?

Mar 13, 2012

1. how i can transfer OR save my data or music to my external Hard Drive. As it keeps coming as my External drive is 'READ ONLY', when I have chnaged my 'Shared' setting sto Sharing. 

2 I want to save my data to our 'Tera Byte External Hard Drive'? 

Info:
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.1

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