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  1. inexcitus

    System Toolkit - System Information And Maintenance

    Hello MacRumors users, Because this is my first post in this forum, let me quickly introduce myself. My name is Sascha and I work as a full-time C# developer. For the past two years I have been learning to write apps in Swift - I just wanted to see what the "other side" looks like ;) A few...
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    Lacie d2 Quadra setup fail

    Hi guys, So, I got a new Lacie d2 Quadra USB 3.0 and as I usually would do with Lacie hard drives, tried to immediately format it using Disk Utility. The problem is that it seems this time one should only use the Setup Assistant included in the disk. By formating, the setup assistant and ReadMe...
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    "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

    I have 2 hard drives which I copy all my Final Cut Pro projects to. I use these drives with Windows 10 as well, so they are in exFAT. One of the drives now comes up with this message when I boot up: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." It gives options to Initialize...
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    2016 MBPs SSD Speed Difference!

    Been looking around and realised there's quite a big difference between the 256GB SSD and 512GB read/write speeds? From my quick check: 256GB 2300read/1300write 512GB 5000read/2000write Can users confirm this...
  5. Arjunwadhwa16

    WD External Hard Disk not mounting

    Hi guys, Got a serious problem. My external WD 1TB hard drive had 3 partitions, One major at (800GB) and the other two occupying the remaining space. I also had my time machine set up on this major partition (named AJ's Mac) Aj's Mac Aj Mixed Aj Windows - Somehow yesterday afternoon , Aj's Mac...
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    Insane Writes - Prevention

    I've got a 1TB Samsung SSD in my iMac, installed about a year ago. Annoyingly enough It's now had an astonishing 17.1 TERABYTES written. Is it just me or does this seem really high? I know Crashplan is one culprit, and I just moved the cache to an external HDD. Looking at activity monitor...
  7. praneeth03

    DiskMark - speed test for HDD, SSD, usb/flash/external hard disk drives

    Test the performance of your flash (pen/usb), solid state, hard disk drives in just 60 seconds. DiskMark performs real world speed tests and shows: + Sequential read/write speeds which is the performance you see when copying large files. + Random read/write speeds which is the performance you...
  8. jgelin

    Resolved Resizing Partition, can't use free space?

    Hello I am currently trying to make the partition Odin which is at 2TB to fill the entire 4TB disk and its free space, which resulted from me erasing its original second one. However, it does not seem that I am able to expand the partition so that it is taking up the 4TB because dragging on the...
  9. DonKnize

    Case-sensitive to normal.

    Hi, I have OS X El Capitan version 10.11.4 on MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", 2014). I am using mac for a month. Everything is great except one thing: CASE-SENSITIVE type of boot disk. Steam is ok, I can install it on another partition and other apps too, but Adobe soft can't. I would like to...
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    New MacBook Pro 15" - >1 TB?

    My 2010 MacBook Pro is starting to show its age, and I'm thinking about a new one. Unfortunately, it seems like it's hard to get >1 TB disk capacity. I replaced the DVD drive with a 2TB drive in my existing laptop, so I am spoiled with 3 TB right now. Is there any way to approach that on the new...
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    MacBook Issues with Macbook booting up

    Hi All, So day before yesterday my Early 2011 Macbook Pro was acting all crazy and working really slow. So, I tried to power cycle it by pressing the power button. Now, the laptop came back on - I chose the user profile I wanted to use (between Guest and myself) - entered the password. The...
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    Bought a used Mac, how to remove "Profiles"?

    Hi All, I bought a used Macbook Pro and noticed that there is an extra icon in "System Preferences" called "Profiles". Looks like some Enterprise IT Management settings (SSL certificate, VPN connections, energy saver settings, etc.). Do you know how to get rid of these? The '-' button is...