Mac hard drive question

[Mike_Rupp]

Here's the deal. I have an iMac with an external hard drive that I use to store my music on. It is a 250 gig drive and I want to replace it. I'd like to replace it with a new external drive, but I can't figure out how to "duplicate" the contents of that drive. I've googled and all I get back it how to copy the contents of an internal drive to an external drive.

I'd like to figure out how to copy the contents of the drive and at the same time have iTunes be able to find the file on the new drive without having to re associate all of the songs.

Thanks in advance.

 

[knewsom]

CloneX

 

[chris snell]

SuperDuper.

Since the path to the files is changing, I'm pretty sure that you'll have to delete the iTunes library and re-add the files to the library once they're moved. I moved my music recently. Took about an hour and a half for iTunes to re-add them.

 

[paxton]

rsync

 

[Some Dude]

Wow you guys are making this too hard. Name the new disk the same thing as the old one and copy the i"Tunes library" folder from the old disc to the new one.

 

[Mike_Rupp]

:rofl:

Wow you guys are making this too hard. Name the new disk the same thing as the old one and copy the i"Tunes library" folder from the old disc to the new one.

I'll give this a try. It makes sense that if the name of the hard drive remains the same, the path in the library should work with the new drive.

 

[knewsom]

You'll probably have to change the name of the old disk to something else first. Make sure iTunes is not open, or do it on another computer.

 

[scottsdalerrc]

are you looking to make it a 'bootable' volume? if so, you'll probably need to format as HFS+ if its currently NTFS *then* you can use a cloning utility like norton ghost or dd (live linux disk) to copy the drive BP, and contents. dd is fantastic as its a low-level copy utility and free on most linux distros.
let me know if you have any other questions and good luck.

 

[Mike_Rupp]

Ok, I've got another Mac issue:

iPhone 3GS iOS5.0.1
iTunes 10.5.1
iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8

I recently updated the iPhone OS and now I can't get the contacts on my iPhone to sync with the Mac. If I go to iCloud.com, I can find the new contacts that I added on the iPhone, but they won't sync with the Mac. On the info tab in Itunes, I have the Sync Address book contacts selected and it says "Your contacts are being synced with iCould over the air. Your contacts will also sync directly with this computer. This may result in duplicated data showing on your device." It might say that, but it surely doesn't do that. The same thing happens in Calendar. If I add an appointment on the iPhone, it won't show up on the mac. It seems that if I add something on the Mac, it will go to the phone, but not from the phone to the Mac.

Any ideas? Do I have to update to Lion?

 

[chris snell]

Mike, have you already gone to System Preferences on your iPhone and selected "iCloud" and from there, turned contacts and calendar syncing on?

Then you went back to System Preferences, enabled WiFi on the iPhone, and then went to General -> iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and let it do it's thing?

I just did those steps and did a sync but like you, my iPhone contacts are not syncing to the Mac. I would assume that they would show up within the Address Book app but they weren't there.

I am very, very disappointed with iOS 5 and iCloud. My first problem came when I upgraded the iPhone. The upgrade went smoothly but all of the data on the iPhone was trashed. All of my apps. All of the app data (GBs of downloaded topo maps...). All of my music, gone. App settings, gone. Mail, gone. I had to rebuild the entire phone from scratch. I would have restored from a backup but somehow my backup was overwritten with a post-upgrade backup and there was nothing to restore.

Second problem is with this stupid iTunes Match. You spend $25 and hours uploading/matching all of your music to the cloud. Then you enable it on your iPhone and it wipes your existing iPhone music library, leaving you with nothing. You have to download all of your songs all over again over wifi from iCloud. It takes forever. As if that didn't suck enough, iTunes on the Mac doesn't even automatically update all of your songs with the 256 kbps versions. You have to do that manually. What a rip.

 

[Mike_Rupp]

Chris, yes, I did all of that. And things are going from the Mac to the Iphone, but not from the phone to the Mac. I just added a few appointments and contacts on each and synced again to make sure.

I'm starting to wonder if this is the beginning of the end for Apple. I bought a Mac and then an iPhone for the simple reason that I'm not a computer person and I want things to be easy. They were, but now it seems when any new software version comes out things get more difficult and fewer things work like they should.

I think I should go back to Microsoft and then get an Android phone. LOL

 

[chris snell]

Apple has never done well with e-mail and calendaring. I had so many issues with iCal and iMail (w/ my work Exchange server) that I gave up and switched to Outlook for Mac. It doesn't surprise me that they would fuck up something as simple as contact syncing.

I think that Snow Leopard and iOS 4.x were the pinnacle for Apple. Everything since then has been downhill. Other than Launchpad, I can't name a single new feature of Lion that I like or use. Same deal with iOS. I like Siri on my wife's 4S but everything else new just sucks. iCloud is confusing and I've spent seventeen years in the computing industry. I have no idea how my mother-in-law will figure it out.

 

[knewsom]

Apple has never done well with e-mail and calendaring. I had so many issues with iCal and iMail (w/ my work Exchange server) that I gave up and switched to Outlook for Mac. It doesn't surprise me that they would fuck up something as simple as contact syncing.

I think that Snow Leopard and iOS 4.x were the pinnacle for Apple. Everything since then has been downhill. Other than Launchpad, I can't name a single new feature of Lion that I like or use. Same deal with iOS. I like Siri on my wife's 4S but everything else new just sucks. iCloud is confusing and I've spent seventeen years in the computing industry. I have no idea how my mother-in-law will figure it out.

State-saving for apps/instant loading. THAT is full of win.

 

[Ballah06]

...my iPC that is running iVista is working fine... Just saying...

 

[paxton]

Ok, I've got another Mac issue:

iPhone 3GS iOS5.0.1
iTunes 10.5.1
iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8

I recently updated the iPhone OS and now I can't get the contacts on my iPhone to sync with the Mac. If I go to iCloud.com, I can find the new contacts that I added on the iPhone, but they won't sync with the Mac. On the info tab in Itunes, I have the Sync Address book contacts selected and it says "Your contacts are being synced with iCould over the air. Your contacts will also sync directly with this computer. This may result in duplicated data showing on your device." It might say that, but it surely doesn't do that. The same thing happens in Calendar. If I add an appointment on the iPhone, it won't show up on the mac. It seems that if I add something on the Mac, it will go to the phone, but not from the phone to the Mac.

Any ideas? Do I have to update to Lion?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3102265?start=0&tstart=0

Upgrade to Lion.

 

[paxton]

More:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3359833?start=0&tstart=0
leads to:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4918
and...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2551

 

[Mike_Rupp]

Paxton, I've read about a million pages that say the same thing: in order for iCould to sync on a Mac, one needs Lion. I get it.

What I want to know is why it won't sync over the damn USB cable.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marupp/6351110592/" title="Screen shot 2011-11-16 at 9.45.58 AM by rupp62, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/6351110592_fc616bff85_b.jpg" width="726" height="657" alt="Screen shot 2011-11-16 at 9.45.58 AM"></a>

iTunes is fucking lying to me. It clearly says that it will sync directly with this computer. It doesn't.

 

[paxton]

Did you turn on iCloud syncing on the phone? I think that turns off "connected" syncing.

I say that because if in iTunes I go to the Contacts tab and select the check to sync, iTunes says something about me already syncing to iCloud and what I'm trying to do won't work, or won't work right.

Sorry I misread your question.

EDIT: Went back and read your original issue, this time for real My conclusion: I don't know.

Good luck.