I just picked up a Lacie Rugged HD (it seems to be great so far) and I have just backed up my stuff onto the hard drive. I opened up an app called Disk Inventory X, which creates a visual showing you which items are taking up space on your hard drive, and noticed that only 63gigs are occupied, whereas i have around 100 gigs of junk on my laptop. I assume that this is because a lot of this is files that are needed to run the computer, sleep image, etc. I just want to check and make sure this sounds ok. Does this make sense?
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Quick External HD Question
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Did you back up everything or just your files?
Did you use TimeMachine? CarbonCopyCloner? SuperDuper?
Or did you just use the Finder to drag/copy?
Woof, Woof - Dawg
Did you use TimeMachine? CarbonCopyCloner? SuperDuper?
Or did you just use the Finder to drag/copy?
Woof, Woof - Dawg
I used the software that came with the hd to back up whatever is the little house icon which I think is the hard drive. Inside of it: Music, pictures, documents, library, movies, desktop, sites, and public. So I think I figured out that means that the reason it's smaller is that, among possibly other folders, it may be missing apps?
Looks like you backed up your user account only, not the HD
[just your files, not the System or the Applications, etc.]
Woof, Woof - Dawg
[just your files, not the System or the Applications, etc.]
Woof, Woof - Dawg