system maintenance???

[Walter Biscardi]

[deditster] “I am an assistant editor @ a production company, and we have 7 fcp offline edit suites. Every how often should one wipe everything and re-install?. Not to mention drive spring cleaning as well”

I wipe my media drives after every project if that’s possible. If not, I try to wipe them clean every three months.

For the main system drive, generally once a year. I generally do this over the christmas / new year’s holiday as that’s a very slow two weeks here.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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[Tom Wolsky]

I only wipe the system drive when I install a new OS. Clone the drive. Wipe it. Install the OS. Install the apps. Replace users and configurations from the cloned drive.

[Craig Alan]

Hi Tom,

Been having problems with this procedure. I cloned my G4 desktop system drive, 10.2.3, to an external firewire drive using CCC, when I took my Mac in for repairs. They lent me a powerbook, which came with 10.3. I migrated all my apps and user folders from the backed up drive to the powerbook using 10.3’s migration utility. Worked like a charm. Then before returning powerbook, I backed up my home folder. But when I got my desktop back from the shop, it still had problems. So they lent me another powerbook. Again, I migrated everything from the original back up of my desktop. Now I needed to update certain folders in the home directory from the back up of the first powerbook home folder. Here’s where the blow by blow ends and the questions begins:

When I try to copy the Microsoft user data to the new documents folder (or even just the database file or any folder of the user data) I get a dialog that says it is in use and therefore can’t be copied. No applications are active.

And 2, I backed up the powerbook system drive to a partition on a firewire drive. I used CCC and selected bootable. However, I can’t boot from the firewire drive. Before the OS X screen comes on, the circle under the apple logo spins until I do a power down. I do notice that the system on the firewire drive is Mac OS extended but not (journaled). The case for this drive is from Wiebetech and after the firmware update, making it compatible with 10.3. I had hoped that by booting from this that I could then copy the database file to the new powerbook.

Any ideas on correcting either of these would be appreciated.

Also if I get all this corrected, will I be able to boot my desktop G4 from a clone of the powerbook? I would be willing to pay for 10.3, and hopefully get 10.4 as a free upgrade if the timing is right. It sure would be easier than trying to get every back into place when I get my desktop back.

OSX 10.2.3; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media

[Tom Wolsky]

No idea. I don’t do anything with Microsoft except Word, and I just move my Word files.

[Deditster]

thanks for the posts.