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Barry OGrady - 01 Jan 2008 02:06 GMT

I have a Powemac G4 which came with a 10 gig hard drive.
It has OSX 10.4 and Classic installed. The disk is full and I
can't see any large files I can delete to free up space.
I added a 20 gig hard drive as slave on the same controller
and OSX sees it OK.
I'd like to know the best way to use the 20 gig drive to free
up space on the 10 gig drive without reinstalling OSX.
With OS 9 I was able to initialise the new HD with disk utility
and just drag and drop the files across. That doesn't seem
to work with OSX.
Would it work if I just moved the applications folder to the
20 gig drive, or must I reinstall everything?
Any advice is appreciated.

Barry
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Andy - 01 Jan 2008 07:27 GMT

> I have a Powemac G4 which came with a 10 gig hard drive.
> It has OSX 10.4 and Classic installed. The disk is full and I
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> Home page
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og

Hi Barry,

Migration Assistant located at:

/Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant

Will take care of this for you. You'll need to install Tiger on the new
drive first, once you've done that it'll automatically launch Migration
Assistant the first time you reboot from that volume.

Just use the 'From another volume on this Mac' and let it do it's thing
(shouldn't take long with only 10GB of stuff).

Otherwise, you can just use the second drive to store large files
(should you have any) that you don't need access to very often.

Just another thought - you can 'trim' down the MacOS install by doing a
custom install. From memory the Language translations and printer
drivers take up a fairly hefty 4-5GB of space.

Cheers,
Andy.

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Charlie - 01 Jan 2008 07:47 GMT

Download SuperDuper trial mode. Clone the original drive to the new one.

I did a similar exercise a while ago - pretty painless.

Ended up buying the full version of SD for back ups...

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denis - 01 Jan 2008 10:37 GMT

>> I have a Powemac G4 which came with a 10 gig hard drive.
>> It has OSX 10.4 and Classic installed. The disk is full and I
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> Cheers

Or try Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich software http://www.bombich.com
which is "...released as uncrippled shareware — try the full-featured
product until you trust it, then consider a donation to the Bombich
Software"

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