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• Add RAM or external hard drive?

  My mac was super slow for a bit now.  I used EtreCheck and remove what was suggested in the report, I have read that I have 4 "memory slots" available, but I'm only using 2 in order to buy more RAM and install it.  Should I seek to increase the RAM of the computer or I should buy an external hard drive, move the photos there and remove them from iPhoto?

  I have a million pictures in iPhoto... This is one of my passions, but I certainly have a lot more then average.  Here are a few other possibly useful info on my computer (not that I understand):

  Processor: 1 Intel Core 3.2 GHz (2 cores)

  (By heart) L2 cache: 256KB

  L3 Cache: 4MB

  Memory: 4 GB

  Processor speed of interconnection: 5.86 GT/s

  Model identifier: iMac11, 2

  Processor name: Intel Core i3

  Processor speed: 3.2 GHz

  Number of processors: 1

  Total number of cores: 2

  (By heart) L2 Cache: 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 4 MB

  Memory: 4 GB

  Speed of the processor interconnection: 5.

  You did not post the result of your EtreCheck in one of the other threads you've started.

  Please post that your report results here, so that we can see if your HARD disk is full or if you need to update the RAM.

  http://etrecheck.com/

• Updated the motherboard, processor and RAM and upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, after upgrade the external hard drive encrypted with bitlocker will not enter the password.

  Original title: bitllocker Windows 7 issue

  Hello

  I recently updated my motherboard, processor and RAM, but I kept my original 500 GB hard drive, and equipped with a hard drive 2 TB extra, after the upgrade, I downloaded windows 7 ultimate 64-bit. After the upgrade I plugged my external hard drive (which has all my stuff important on it, that is to say the photo, video etc.) to realize that I had he encrypted with bitlocker on my old sysem. It allows Me to enter my password, it looks for a USB flash drive key, I did not. My question is:

  Can I replace my old system with the old motherboard, hard drive and the original RAM to remove the external hard drive for bitlocker?

  I still have the file windows.old on my hard drive, I have to restore it and remove the most recent version of windows 7 off the drive. I do this before I rebuild my old PC? I'm stuck here and would not lose all my photos (the wife would kill me!) I would appreciate your help.

  Hello

  Reassembly of the old computer won't help. You will always need the key to open the Bitlocker.

  You can read the articles and check:

  What is the difference between BitLocker Drive encryption and EFS file system?

  Protect your files using BitLocker Drive encryption

  In Windows 7 BitLocker Drive Encryption: frequently asked Questions

  Hope the helps of information. Let us know if you need help with Windows related issues. We will be happy to help you.

• How to transfer iTunes with comments and followed by names, but keep the files of the song on external hard drive?

  I have all of my music stored on an external hard drive. On my old iMac, I have iTunes with all the songs on this hard drive organized or recognized as I like, with comments and play lists and track/song names and album names. How can I transfer iTunes as it is to the old iMac to the new MacMini while leaving the actual files of the song (> 2.5 to) on the external hard drive? In short, I want the old iTunes on my new computer, but the files of the song in the current HD thank you so much.

  (2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM 20 "iMac; 2014 new Mac Mini)

  Hmmm...   Never tried, but I "think" it should work.   The reader will need to named exactly something on the new computer, as it was on the old.

  1. on the old computer, go to {user folder} / music/iTunes and move the files on the external hard drive.

  2. on the new computer in iTunes, go to Preferences > advanced and not select "copy of the file to the iTunes Media folder.

  3. always in this same window under "iTunes Media folder location", click on change.   Now select the location on the external hard drive, you have moved the files too.

  Files to be copied.

  iTunes Music Library.xml

  iTunes Library.itl

  iTunes Library Extras.itdb

  iTunes Library Genius.itdb

• You can use an external hard drive with the Mac Mini?

  I've seen videos that say that we cannot increase the ram on a min of Mac, but I'm curious if this works like an ordinary computer, if we can attach an external hard drive to store some of the memory to free up space. Sorry if this is something stupid just need to know what I can do with it.

  You can use an external hard drive to boot and run with any Mac. Its not going to improve or replace your ram. If you use a mechanical hard drive in any Mac then help and boot from an external drive, especially if it's a SSD will be significantly faster.

• Bad Partition on external hard drive: format the bad Partition or format the entire disk?

  I am confused how to proceed.

  I have an external hard drive 3 TB with partitions (3). One of the parititons cannot be verified. I saved the partition and tried to repair disk. Repair disk failed and invited me to reformat the hard drive.

  How can I reformat the partition without affecting other partitions (2) good bad?

  Or do I have to save all the external drive (all 3 partitions) and then to reformat all the external drive?

  Thank you

  Retina 5 k

  10.10.5 OS

  32 GB of Ram

  Back up the entire disc (as a precaution), select the partition in disk utility, click on the tab erase or Format and erase it.

  (140323)

• Library of photos on external hard drive: not possible repair

  Hello world

  Today, when I tried to open my library of Photos, Photos crashed. After I have reopened, Photos asked that the library must be repaired. I started who, but after 2%, Photos crashed with "an unexpected error has occurred." A restart does not solve this problem. I still can't view the contents of the library package.

  I saw on messages earlier (for example, 10.10.3 Photos can not repair permissions), the output of this Terminal command can reveal the underlying error:

  find ~ $TMPDIR...------(-+ flags sappnd, uappnd, schg, uchg o! - user $UID o! - perm-600 o - acl-) 2 >/dev/null | WC-l

  Outputs this line in my case: 4471

  Please note that I'm storing my photo library, including all images imported into a separate external hard drive connected via USB.

  So perhaps the command above (where I'm not sure what it does) may not be to give the required output to track down the problem.

  Following the crash of the pictures, here is the output of the Console:

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:22, photolibraryd 504 [1483]: failed to open the library Fotos Library.photoslibrary error: Domain = com.apple.lithium error Code = 303 '(null) '.

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, photolibraryd 720 [1483]:-[NSNull integerValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fff797dc780

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, photolibraryd 722 [1483]: * reason for termination due to an untrapped exception "NSInvalidArgumentException" app,: '-[NSNull integerValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fff797dc780'

  First throw call stack:

  (

  0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff993b5ae2 __exceptionPreprocess + 178

  1 libobjc. A.dylib 0x00007fff955be73c objc_exception_throw + 48

  2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff993b8b9d-[NSObject (NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205

  3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff992f1601 ___forwarding___ + 1009

  4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff992f1188 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120

  5 photolibraryd 0x000000010411f2ff _ZNSt3__114__split_bufferINS_4pairINS_10shared_ptrIN2Li6Sqlite9StatementEEEU8__ strongP31LiServiceSqliteNoteBufferReaderEERNS_9allocatorISA_EEED2Ev + 164451

  6 photolibraryd 0x000000010409a414 _ZNSt3__16__treeINS_12__value_typeImNS_4pairIU8__strongP16LiSearchKitIndexU8__s trongP8NSStringEEEENS_19__map_value_compareImSA_NS_4lessImEELb1EEENS_9allocatorI SA_EEE4findImEENS_15__tree_iteratorISA_PNS_11__tree_nodeISA_PvEElEERKT_ + 13196

  7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b17933f _dispatch_client_callout + 8

  8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b17a926 _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_invoke + 74

  9 photolibraryd 0x000000010409a34f _ZNSt3__16__treeINS_12__value_typeImNS_4pairIU8__strongP16LiSearchKitIndexU8__s trongP8NSStringEEEENS_19__map_value_compareImSA_NS_4lessImEELb1EEENS_9allocatorI SA_EEE4findImEENS_15__tree_iteratorISA_PNS_11__tree_nodeISA_PvEElEERKT_ + 12999

  10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b18692e _dispatch_data_apply + 110

  11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b18b44e dispatch_data_apply + 31

  12 photolibraryd 0x000000010409a114 _ZNSt3__16__treeINS_12__value_typeImNS_4pairIU8__strongP16LiSearchKitIndexU8__s trongP8NSStringEEEENS_19__map_value_compareImSA_NS_4lessImEELb1EEENS_9allocatorI SA_EEE4findImEENS_15__tree_iteratorISA_PNS_11__tree_nodeISA_PvEElEERKT_ + 12428

  13 photolibraryd 0x000000010414334d _ZNSt3__114__split_bufferINS_4pairINS_10shared_ptrIN2Li6Sqlite9StatementEEEU8__ strongP31LiServiceSqliteNoteBufferReaderEERNS_9allocatorISA_EEED2Ev + 311985

  14 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b199c0b ___dispatch_operation_deliver_data_block_invoke + 118

  15 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b184871 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12

  16 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b17933f _dispatch_client_callout + 8

  17 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b17df6f _dispatch_queue_drain + 754

  18 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b18463b _dispatch_queue_invoke + 549

  19 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff9b17cc87 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 538

  20 0x00007fff9b17ca34 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91 libdispatch.dylib

  21 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9319468f _pthread_wqthread + 1129

  22 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff93192365 start_wqthread + 13

  )

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, 723 diagnosticd [134]: error assessment process info - pid: 1483, puniqueid: 1483

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, com.apple.xpc.launchd [1 724]: (com.apple.photolibraryd [1483]) Service was released due to the signal: Abort trap: 6

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, 725 Photos [1785]: error: Domain error Code = com.apple.reddwarf = 504 UserInfo = {XPC = connection down, NSLocalizedDescription = RDErrorServiceCommandNotProcessed} "RDErrorServiceCommandNotProcessed" while trying to open the Library.photoslibrary Fotos

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, 742 Photos [1785]: file:///Volumes/MusicPhotos/Fotos/Fotos%20Library.photoslibrary/ lost connection

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:28, com.apple.xpc.launchd [1 752]: (com.apple.ReportCrash [1791]) endpoint has been activated through legacy launch (3) API. Please go to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:29, ReportCrash 190 [1791]: report of incidents recorded for photolibraryd [1483] version 1.3 (350.23.0) to/Users/andrefischer/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/photolibraryd_2015-12-22-193 929_Fischi.crash

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:32, 586 pictures [1785]: connection to the lost storage engine. Recognized user exit.

  Dienstag, 22.12.15 19:39:32, com.apple.xpc.launchd [1 608]: (com.apple.Photos.9632 [1785]) Service came out with abnormal code: 1

  Here is my system information:

  MacBook Air 13 "mid 2012, El Capitan 10.11.2, Intel Core i7 2 GHz, 8 GB of RAM

  I'm not quite desperate, because I'm having several backups of the library (only a few images are not yet backed up). However, also in the interest of others less fortunate that me regarding backups, I would like to know

  (1.) what is the cause of this unexpected behavior

  (2.) what can be done to remedy this.

  Thank you very much in advance, any help is appreciated.

  How the EHD are formatted?  It must be formatted for OS X Extended (journaled) preferable with the property set to be ignored:

  

  You have a backup copy of the library just before this problem started?

  

• Best way backup external hard drives?

  SYSTEM INFORMATION:

  HP Pavilion PU131AV / a1050y, Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP MCE, SP3 32-bit, Nvidia GeForce 6600

  CURRENT BACKUP METHOD: I have three external hard drives (200 GB, 300GB, 750GB) all connected via USB.  I use the 750Go to back up the data on my 200 and 300 GB.  Currently, I manually copy all the files from the 750 GB smaller hard drives to save them.  It's very tedious because it takes about 5 hours to copy 200 GB of data.

  QUESTION: I've never used the 'Backup Now' tool (right click on the drive / properties / tools / backup now) to back up external hard drives.  It would be a better option for me instead of manually copying files to a post of h/d to another?  Can I automate backups?  How can I retrieve the backup should I need the data backup?

  Thank you very much

  Angela

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  old computer: HP Pavilion PU131AV / a1050y, Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP MCE, SP3 32-bit, Nvidia GeForce 6600
  new computer: HPE-180 t, Windows 7 Pro (64 bit), Nvidia GeForce GT 220, Intel Core i7 - 930 quad-core CPU @ 2.80 GHz, 8 GB of RAM

  TX, everything is easier than all your backup data manually.  Here is a guide to using "HP Easy Backup".  Also, here is a guide for the use of Backup in Windows XP.

  There are probably a thousand or several FREE online backup programs.  Here are some examples to cnet.  This should give you some good ideas.

• can I use an external hard drive to increase the disk space and memory on xp?

  I am considering an external hard drive of 1 TB to trasmet all files on the computer. There is little hard drive space and memory left. Can I use the external hard drive free space and can it will be installed via USB and use my operating system?

  You can use the external hard drive to transfer your data from your internal hard drive.  Cannot move system files (such as Program Files, Windows and swap files) well.  Looks like your use of the word 'memory' made reference to disk space - it normally refers to which an external drive would not affect RAM.  If you mean disk space, however, you can certainly free SPAC drive this way.

  I hope this helps.  Good luck.

• Error message "unable to copy the file"hiberfil", it is used by another person or program." Problem copying content from your PC to external hard drive.

  Original title: problem to copy content from your PC to external hard drive.

  I use Windows XP 2000 and am trying to restore my pc to factory settings as it is continuously 'stick '. When you try to copy my drive "c" on an external drive I get a message saying "unable to copy the file"hiberfil", it is used by another person or program." Close any program that might be using the file and try again "." What is 'hiberfil' and how do I close it down as I am not aware that I use?

  Concerning

  Pete

  The hiberfil.sys will be created every time that you start... If you put in hibernation enabled in your control panel, Power Options and the file is 'open' to think that you can actually choose to Hibernate at any given time.  When you Hibernate XP gives a note of it and will write a hiberfil.sys sometimes important in the c:\ folder so that when XP fires again upwards and returns from hibernation, XP will read the hiberfil.sys file and return to the situation that you were in when you put into hibernation.

  I use to be a chronic hibernant because it takes less time to return after hibernation as a cold start.  Sometimes, it can actually be slower that a cold so start your system based on the amount of RAM has.  The more RAM you have, the more your hiberfil.sys will, if sometimes it's faster to move with just a cold start if you Hibernate (26,03 seconds for me).

  If hiberfil.sys is giving you a hard time (you would not in any way copy it) disable hibernation in your Power Options and the file will be deleted immediately since it would be is no longer necessary.  That would solve this, but if you are trying to copy the entire C drive, you will have other files to complain after that.

  It is certainly possible to make a complete copy of the C drive, if you want, but you will have to initialize on something next to your drive hard if you want to do this so the XP files are not used - then you can copy anything and everything.  You can get some imaging software of disc that will also help you.

  It depends on what the problem is you want to solve and what you wand to end up with when you're done (so far, unspecified).

  I would work on figure our why your XP is paste and fix it in place.  XP should not be sticky.

• unknown user account - S-1-5-21-98 preventing access to the images on an external hard drive

  original title: account unknown user - S-1-5-21-98... PREVENTING ME ACCESS to MY PHOTOS on external hard drive

  Im having problems accessing copy, editing and viewing my photos on my drive external hard .it says I don't have permissions to access the file .and the file belongs to an unknown user account. How can I have access to these files?

  I think that this resulted that I changed my operating system from windows home basic/vista (not sure what operating system) Windows 7 ultimate.

  Please help me, its been two years im trying to solve this problem.

  Here is the link to additional photos showing all the problems

  https://www.Facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3381541016883.2168211.1220177281&type=1&l=160799ee13

  IM using HP530, 2g of RAM, windows 7 ultimate, 32 bit

  the external hard drive is a samsung HD103SI, 1 TB model

  I saw the pictures and found that you had to the security of the folder/file. From there, change the owner of your current account. The account unknown S-1-5-21-98... user id internal to the user account that created the file and so you have the permission of that user, which is impossible because even if you create a user account with the same name, the user id cannot be the same.

  Also, as mentioned in one of the boxes of dialogue, appropriating the folder/file and then delete the unknown user account.

  Try the above, if the file/folder is not encrypted/protected.

• cannot use external hard drive 1 TB for readyboost

  can I use my 1 TB WD external hard drive (fat32) for readyboost... I have win 7 home premium (64-bit) & 2 GB of RAM right now I get a message saying that this device (1 TB drive) cannot be used for readyboost... but I can easily use readyboost when I insert my 4GB kingston USB...

  To see the true performance increases you'd be better by upgrading the amount of RAM you have. I am surprised that you have Windows 64 bit with only 2 GB of RAM...

• What are the things to do and not do purge external hard drive?

  Well, now that I got the big breakthrough on my 1st question in another category, thank you Gerry (England) and Pa bear!  Now on what is probably extremely easy for you. I have an external hard drive and when I got this HP computer about 2 years ago, I took and put ALL of my old computer inside (not realizing I didn't need to put some programs/trash etc.) All I wanted was to put documents / my pictures etc, SO WHAT are the things and make my external hard drive purge? Thank you...   Kind REGARDS Nicole Ramirez

  P.S. did publish in the right category?

  What I would do is create a new folder, move to this folder the items I wanted to keep, and then delete all the rest or I would move to another disk (or temporary storage in the cloud) these elements, I would like to keep, quick-format of the disk and replace the kept items.

• External hard drive has problem by being recognized from my Win7 desktop PC. How can I fix?

  Hi This is the first time I post something, but I always read your thread, which helped me a lot!

  Now I'm having a problem and I can not find answers: C

  I use a desktop PC

  • Windows 7 Home Premium
  • Service Pack 1
  • 5.1 index of Windows performance
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.80 GHz 2.80 GHz CPU
  • 8.00 GB OF RAM
  • System: 64-bit

  And I'm having a problem with an external hard drive, Toshiba Stor.E Canvio 3 TB USB3

  Specifics:

  • Brand: Toshiba
  • Model: HDWC130EK3J1
  • Capacity of 3 TB
  • External interface: USB 3.0 (compatible USB 2.0)
  • Power:
    • Power AC adapter cable.
    • Input: 100-240V, 650mA
    • Output: 12V - 2A
    • Head of exchangable taken EU/UK
  • Compatibility: PC & Mac
  • System: NTFS (MS Windows) * the disk can be formatted the system filesystem HFS + for Mac compatibility.
  • Requires:
    • Windows® XP / VISTA® / Windows® 7
    • With 750 MHz or faster CPU
    • 10 MB of disk space system hard
    • 256 MB of system memory
    • a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 port

  HERE, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME:

  I turn off the pc and I keep the hard drive is connected.

  I start windows. No problems so far.

  I open windows Documents, I want access to my hard drive, and first of all, she has another name, not the one I gave to her when I formatted, it (like two weeks there are other problems, but that's another story) and when I click on it an error message appears saying that my local drive has been damaged and cannot be opened and is necessary for formatting.

  I tried to unplug it after the shutdown of the PC (when the PC is on I can't unplug it because that always seem to be used, even if everything is closed) because I thought that during the start-up in somewhere so it might be confused with a drive of the computer, for three days, he stopped to do today after I plugged it again.

  I unplugged and plugged a different device, you see correctly, so I unplugged and re-connected to my PC, now we see normally.

  I'm ok with this, but I am aware that it is not normal behavior, what should I do?

  Thank you

  Since the watch test failed, the hard drive must be replaced. If it is under warranty, you can take it to the Toshiba service center to get it replaced. Another thing, the new hard drive is the recommended option.

  Before in both cases, make sure that you back up all of your important and personal data from the hard drive.

• Seagate external HARD drive expansion will not identify Windows 7 x 64. OK in a first time and fine on Vista x 86.

  Recently installed Windows 7 Home Premium x 64 Vista Home Premium x 86. Under Vista, everything was fine. Less than 7, my Seagate expansion (1.5 TB) hard drive initially was recognized (I have iTunes library I can't play to prove :)) after a few days using 7, however, I lost the external HARD drive. I get the error message is "software device driver is not properly installed." In Device Mgr, it says it's an "unknown device" with the yellow! triangle. "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) "appears in the details of the device. No updated drivers are available. Windows updates are up to date, nothing helps. Restart, reinstall, restore driver, deactivation, nothing works. Tried to update my BIOS, but it is already the latest version of Dell. Trying any other Dell Update, what it offers is the Download Manager, but not actual updates I select. I'm not allowed to use this player all of a sudden, after that it worked fine for a few days!

  Specific features of the system are as follows:

  Name of the operating system Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
  Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
  Another Description of the OS is not available
  Manufacturer of operating system Microsoft Corporation
  System name PHIL-PC
  System manufacturer Dell Inc.
  Inspiron 530 s model system
  System Type x 64-based PC
  Processor Intel (r) Pentium (r) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00 GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2 Lossnay, 2 logical processors
  BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.0.18, 24/02/2009
  SMBIOS 2.5 version
  Windows directory C:\Windows
  System directory C:\Windows\system32
  Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
  Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385".
  Physical memory (RAM) installed 4.00 GB
  Total physical memory 4.00 GB
  2.54 GB available physical memory

  Thanks in advance for any helpful info!

  All this occurred within three days of using Windows 7 x 64, so I don't think there is a previous restore point to go back to. However, I would not I install updates to be rendered unusable and allow my system, and their insecurity. And, as stated in my original post, I have gone through the drivers to uninstall or disable normal, remove, reinstall, etc. etc. without help.

  An update my original post, I finally got the unit of work, although not as fast as it was in Vista x 86. I did back up the device to a laptop from Vista Home Premium I have, let it load the drivers it needs, and then after reconnection to 7, it has been working well, but overall slowly in read/write functions and clicking on a lot more than he did primarily when operating. What I went through get this thing to work, I think that the currently loaded driver is for a 32 bit OS, and there is no update (again) for 64-bit. I leave it alone, because it is functional, and if it is not recognized after the next set of Windows updates, I guess I have to restore to a previous image.

  Dell doesn't seem to have anything for her, and Seagate plans explicitly on their site that they don't provide drivers for this HARD drive while referring to Microsoft or the manufacturer of the equipment for drivers.