OS X V10.7 Lion :: Erased External HD - Now Doubled In Capacity?
Mar 4, 2012
I've got an old - 2 years - Maxtor 500GB USB external unit attached to my iMac running OSX 10.7.3 - which is used for backups. I received a couple of errors when copying some files so decided it would be best to erase it and start again with it. I used Disc Utility to erase it ( Mac OS Extended Journaled) but - and lord knows how I did this - its now telling me its got a capacity of 901 GB...
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iBooks Author, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jul 13, 2009
I have a Buffalo 1TB external hard drive that contained some H.264 video clips shot on Canon 5D, .r3d red material and other video related stuff. It was formatted with NTFS and everything had been written on a PC running Windows Vista.
The other day I opened the drive up on my Mac (with Leopard) and looked at some of the H.264 video clips, they were all in a folder called DCIM. Then i ejected it and connected it via USB to my PC again. Strange things started to happen. The drive ran very slowly but showed all the folders and files, except for the one folder DCIM that contained the H.264 clips that I viewed on the Mac. Then the folder showed for some seconds but disappeared.
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I started installing Leopard last night before going out. I came back late last night (or early this morning) and sat down to explore the new OS. There was a pop-up about using Time Machine with my external hard drive. I clicked okay.
It began loading and running Time Machine before telling me my external hard drive was the wrong format or something. It then gave me the option to delete (which I assumed ment delete the Time Machine files from my external hard drive). I clicked on it.
A few minutes later I realized that it had erased my entire external hard drive, renaming it "Time Machine Backups". I had JUST moved my entire music and movie collection to that hard drive and am wondering if there's any way I can recover those files.
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Feb 19, 2010
I was backing up my music and pictures on my external hard drive and erased the old copy. When I tried to empty my trash after that I could not remove the files because I did not have sufficient privileges. Using the rm -rf code I was able to remove everything except my itunes library. Anyone have any suggestions how to get my itunes library out of my trash? It only shows up when the external drive is plugged in.
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Dec 6, 2014
I have an external USB HDD that was originally formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled), it was accidentally erased (using Disk utility) and re-formatted to FAT32. the HDD has not been used since (other than to try and recover the data using various tools), so no new data was been written to it.Â
Any methods that could be used to recover the data from the drive?i've tried DiskWarrior but that can't do anything with the drive as it's not a "macintosh disk".
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Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 2.3Ghz Core i5
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Apr 8, 2009
I got a Seagate 500GB external hard drive recently. I'm looking to delete files from my Mac after I back them up on the external hard drive. I tested this with one picture and after I deleted the picture then backed up the hard drive, the hard drive 'erased' the picture. I did talk to Seagate and the guy said it wasn't actually erased, it just went into history. (Although I can't find history and forgot to ask :/)
So, my question is - How can I put files on the external hard drive then delete them from my Mac and when I later back up my computer, keep the files on my external hard drive that were previously deleted from my computer. I know the files will be in history but I'd like for all of them to be in one place instead of searching through history for maybe one file here and there. I hope this makes sense!!! (I have Leopard OS)
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Has anyone had this problem: I created a Lion Recovery Disk and it erased mounted volume? Can the data be recovered?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), External USB Disk
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Apr 19, 2009
I need a new external drive for my macbook pro. I need 1.5TB of capacity and found the Seagate FreeAgent Desk. But I am not sure if I should go with the Mac version which features a firewire 800 connection. Is it that much faster? And will the usb 2.0 interface be enough for 1080p playback?
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how can I check the free space capacity of an external disk connected to my MacBook Air?Â
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Feb 19, 2012
If you install OS X lion, will be everything erased or not? Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 11, 2012
I installed Lion and now I can no longer use Word and Final Draft? I had no idea these things would "no longer be supported". I read up on the upgrade and saw nothing on this. I didn't back up recently..
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 25, 2012
I am having a problem with my disk space as I recently, by mistake, used the erase free disk space feature in Disk Utility, "loosing" in the process around 30 gb. Â Is there a way to reverse this process and reclaim the lost free disk space (without having to backup all the data and restore the entire system?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 22, 2012
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Apr 18, 2008
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Apr 25, 2009
I searched for this up and down and for some reason can't come to a solution.
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I've tried finding duplicates but it pulls up a very short list of the usual suspects that I know aren't dupes. I looked in my music folder directly only to see my regular mp3s with no duplicated files.
How do I get rid of these "phantom" mp3s?
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I made a huge mistake of erasing my hard drive. When I turn the computer on it only appears a question mark.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 26, 2010
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Jun 23, 2009
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Feb 9, 2012
I'm new to this whole mac thing, and maybe I'm overlooking something....but this just doesn't seem right. If I click on the hard disk of my new 13" MBA 256G, and choose get info, I get the following:
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 7, 2012
I have been using Parallels Desktop for a while now and I was trying to free up some space on my hard drive. I deleted the parallels.log file which was approx. 45 GB in size. Upon emptying my trash, it was still in use by a service. So I forced it to delete by choosing secure erase trash. It took too long so I was going to stop the service and remove it without securely erasing it. However when I cancelled the process, it took even longer. I had 45 GB free of a 500 Gb hard drive before I started and I was wanting to free enough for a Windows Bootcamp with a 60 GB HDD for development purposes. After it finished, the finder was stating that I had 37.5 GB free. Upon investigation and running the daily weekly and monthly scripts as well as Onyx to empty the trash again. I was still showing the same amount. As I removed other items I no longer needed the free space increased. I ran disk utility to verify permissions and the disk, but upon running a gui program to find large files, it only stated that my drive was ~465 GB, which since it is usually 499.97 GB this is obviously where my problem is. How can I get my Mac to rediscover that lost hard drive space?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 15" Core i7, 4 GB DDR3, Oct. 2010
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The type of mac we use at our company is an iMac 7,1. There are tons of important files on it. During a routine email in mac mail it was taking a long time so I force quit mac mail. I waited a few moments and when I opened it back up mac mail was asking me to register like I had never used it before!I saved everything and restarted the computer and when the screen came up everything had gone! All my files are still here, thank god, but nothing's in the doc, the mail is asking to be registered, the printers are asking to be registered, and spotlight won't pull up any documents that I know are sitting right in front of me.
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Mar 28, 2009
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Dec 24, 2010
I have never had this problem before: I deleted Bootcamp partition. Repaired my hard disk and then erased my hard drive. Now I am trying to reinstall Snow Leopard and after the install starts it says: 35 minutes remaining" for about 5 minutes. Then it goes to a screen that says: "Install Failed: Mac OSX could not be installed on your computer. The Installer could not copy the necessary support files. Click Restart to restart your computer and try installing again." I tried restarting and installing and I get the exact same situation. I am not sure what is going on here. This MBP is less than 6 months old and this is the 1st time I have tried a reinstall on this particular machine.
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Apr 23, 2009
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May 22, 2009
I just bought a new WD hard disk and backed up all my data to it (80 GB). I then performed a clean install on my Macintosh HD.
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So I booted up disk utility to check if partitioning would affect my data. Using the partition tool, I clicked the plus sign (without applying changes). Disk utility said that if I add a partition, it would simply add a new volume and that the previous volume would not be erased. I clicked apply, and now there is nothing left of my data in the original partition.
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