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    Howto: Clone High Sierra to another disk using macOS

    Recently i upgraded to High Sierra on SSD on my mac pro 5.1. During this proces the filesystem got upgraded to APFS but after that i wanted to upgraded the bootdisk. Of course you could use commercial software but it is doable with just macOS and a third disk or usb stick to store an image, as i...
  2. Stephan1337

    OSX First Partition visible and not EFI after Cloning with OSX Installer tool

    Hi, I just tried to move my whole main drive partition (It was just 1 "usable" that I was aware of, with Mac OSX High Sierra) to a new Samsung EVO 850 1TB Harddrive. I had to initialise it and convert it to "GPT"-format with my Windows 10 Desktop, because the installer tool from High Sierra...
  3. fbx1989

    FileVault2 and Carbon Copy Cloner

    When CCC clones a Filevault2 encrypted drive is the clone also encrypted? And would it be encrypted if copied (cloned) back to a different computer?
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    Resolved Is the Western Digital Red NAS 8TB drive 100% compatible with the Mac Pro 4,1?

    I'm on the verge of buying this hard drive: https://www.wdc.com/en-gb/products/internal-storage/wd-red.html#WD80EFZX to use to clone my boot drive to as a backup. (I'm aware that they can be had for far less money via places other than from WD themselves). As it's a much more modern drive...
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    Is an image created by Disk Utility sector-by-sector?

    I need to make a sector by sector mountable image file of a USB drive that will allow recovery of deleted files. I'm not looking to simply put every file into a DMG. Will the DMG created by Disk Utility copy all sectors, including empty ones? I've searched extensively and what I'm finding is a...
  6. alhazred823

    Win 10 on Mac Pro with Non Flashed GPU (GTX 970)

    Hi All, I have another question for you all. I have a Windows 10 machine, and now that i have my cMP up and running with the GTX 970 using web drivers, i was wondering if i could clone my windows machine and install it on a spare PCIe SSD in my cMP? Anyone have recommendation on software for...
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    Installing an additional ssd and moving/cloning os to it

    Hey everyone, first time posting I have mid 2012 macbook pro with a 500 GB hdd, I need more space and I want to run the os on a ssd to make it faster and smoother. I have a 120 GB ssd and I want to install it in the place of the optical drive (so i will have both hdd and ssd inside the...
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    Do I need to clone my hard drive?

    I have the MacBook Pro, MD101B/A, Intel Core i5, 500GB, 4GB RAM, 13.3". I plan on taking out the hard drive and installing a 1TB SSD. There are no files on the laptop that I want to keep. Can I just erase the hard drive and put in my SSD? Or do I still need to clone my hard drive? Cheers!
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    How to copy HDD Clone partition/image to external drive?

    Hi. I'm copying all my internal drive material to an external drive. One of my internal drives as two partitions, one with data on it and one that is a HDD clone that I had made. I would like to keep this HDD clone intact and have it as a partition on my new external drive. How do I go about...
  10. smacrumon

    Universal App Store clone versions and blatant rip offs

    What are developer's experiences with uploading their original apps to the App Store only to have clone versions be released or worse blatant rip offs be approved by Apple? To my knowledge, it is possible with certain software to extract some of the media resources (images etc) from an app...
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    Local backup of fresh iPhone

    Is it possible to make a local backup of your iPhone via iTunes or any other program? I always clean up my iPhone and start fresh. It is a pain having to add the Apps that I always use over and over again. For PC and Mac there Is a concept of disk imaging or cloning. I do this with PC and Mac...
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    Creating a mac clone for a computer lab?

    I run a computer lab for a high school. We have about 150 computers in need of a new clone. I recently upgraded to El Capitan and I have found endless literature on how to clone using previous platforms. But none for this new system. I have been working on this for over a month, I have...