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• How can I search for files on my external hard drive WD My Passport, using spotlight?

  Hello

  I bought my first apple product, a MBP of the retina and has opened and updated at the El Capitan 10.11.6 a few hours ago.

  I need exclusively for music (traktor and ableton) and research songs and samples is essential.

  First slap my face was when I read on school drop-outs and questions with traktor and every update after that Yosemite 10.5 and I could have downgrade to it, even if I have no idea how.

  Second slap in the face and the question, I'm looking for help, was when I started to use spotlight to find the pieces of my external WD My Passport hard drive, only to discover this method of index (confidentiality, etc.) does not work and that there may be no solution for this problem.

  Can I do to solve this problem permanently? Any other tool of research, I can use instead of spotlight which will do the work?

  I was really happy with this purchase, but I have my doubts now and I'm starting to think that I have spent a fortune for nothing.

  Please, if you have any suggestions, explain in detail because I'm not familiar with the Apple OS.

  Thanks in advance!

  FWIW, Spotlight can certainly index external drives.

  Rebuild the index on your Mac - Apple Support Spotlight

  You can use EasyFind since the alternative App Store as a research tool.

• Complete hard drive well messages have a lot of space.

  Hello world

  IM using a MacMini 2012 with 16 GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD stock.

  I don't know what to do. My MacMini gives me error messages all the time say that my HARD disk memory is full - but it isn't.

  I already emptied the trash. I was transferred to GB´s videos on an external HARD drive. Sometimes, the memory is more and what is reduced without having done anything.

  Today I had 1, 76 GB of free memory and wile watching a video the same 'lack of HARD disk space"message.

  The amounts also vary a lot. Yesterday he showed me 210 GB of videos (green) - today after the transfer not 10 GB of videos, it says now that I just left 12 GB and the difference is now on color (yellow) data.

  Can someone help me please...

  Hope I explained myself good enough.

  Thx a lot in advance!

  Try re-indexing of Spotlight.

  Spotlight - re - index

  -Minimum space required free disk

• Mini Mac server - attachment of external hard drives file transfer speed

  Hi guys!

  I wanted to increase the speed and storage capacity to transfer to my Mac mini file, so I bought a box of external hard drives. The one I bought is: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=219

  Built-in the Mac mini hard drives transfer the file to 60 MB/s (writing and reading) and I wanted to get better speed of file transfer, so I bought an SSD that is going to be inside with an another HARD drive of 3 TB for archiving my files. The housing is connected by USB3.0 (5 Gb/s) for the Mac mini.

  [SSD-> files I opened every day] - speed around 550 MB/s write and 500 MB/sec in reading

  [HDD-> Archives, files that I have does not open very often] - speed around 150 MB/s write and 150 MB/sec in reading

  So I did some benchmarks on my new Setup, and the speed is not really what I expected. Transfer of file max speed I have achieved is about 100 MB/sec in writing on the external SSD plugged into the mac mini. This transfer has been filed since an iMac 21 "2011 with an SSD (with almost the same speed read/write than the box) so it's quite disappointing.

  It is possible that the Mac has a 'file transfer speed limit' is somewhere? Or whatever else that could affect that?

  More information on my setup:

  Mac Mini server 2012 - 2 TB RAID 1 - Mac OSX 10.9.5

  iMac 21 "2011 - Crucial SSD 275 Gb - Mac OSX 10.9.4

  IcyDock external enclosure - 4 bays, USB3 5 Gb/s

  -Red WD HDD 3To

  -Crucial SSD 1 TB

  Together internal Gigabit Ethernet network

  Thank you!

  Was perhaps Spotlight indexing external at the same time, the test has been done?

• Research through external hard drive

  I asked about the use of external hard drives before, but I was never satisfied with the results. This time I thought that it would be more useful minimize my question in order to reduce the number of responses.

  One of my more frequent needs is to search for an e-mail message. Suppose I know that a message from Mabel or at an uncertain date contained the information I need. Is it possible to type "Mabel" in a search engine for each mention of the same name throughout my external hard drive?

  That sums it up. This is an example of the only way to find data that I would find useful: minimum words, and then click.

  Yes, it should work, but with a modification.

  First confirm that system preferences > Spotlight > search results > Mail & Messages is checked ON.

  When you add the search term in a Finder window search field, select the Mac before you click to start the search. Only this option to search through all the disks and volumes.

• I deleted all my photos and music from my mac and moved to my time capsule. It still shows my hard drive as full? I have to format

  I deleted all my photos and music from my mac and moved to my time capsule. It still shows my hard drive as full? I have to format

  If you restarted the computer, which can help the system see the

  amount available content recently removed as free to crush.

  Sometimes, a reboot with a quick operation of the SHIFT key down, can

  help the system file check and minor repairs on start up.

  • Try safe mode if your Mac does not end commissioning - Apple Support

  A moment after this restart, you should see a login to continue

  If secure boot will be available. You could repair disk permissions

  in this mode, or use it for troubleshooting. Restart normally

  subsequently pressing don't all the keys, just restart. IF that is not

  help, then try this short method to rebuild the Spotlight index; It can

  Take the time to complete the process:

  • Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple-Support-link

  https://support. Apple.com/en-us/HT201716

• Index of the external hard drive

  I've never been able to use my external hard drive for the purpose for which it was intended: find things and recover. Maybe there is a better way.  Is there a program that would allow me to print a visible index/Graph/chart of the hard drive? I mean some sort of table or chart that shows where everything is? I tell everything. Music, photos, e-mail and all the rest. Indeed, in order to extend the idea elsewhere, perhaps also a Microsoft graph chart / in an electronic format that would allow you to find things by moving the cursor over the electronic/chart table. Yes, something like probe the brain with a spindle to produce souvenirs of a long time ago, I'm serious. Right now, I'm looking for a lot of things that I see now are not in my computer. One of them was a recording of seven LPs of poetry. Why can't I not use my drive external hard as easily as the projector used to be? I mean, I want to type the name of poem, the Narrator, or the name of the album and locate the records immediately. I found on the side of 2 (each record is one side of an LP), but I can't find the other 13 sides.

  Rebuild the index on your Mac - Apple Support Spotlight

• Really slow copying files to iMac to Seagate external HARD drive

  I have an iMac mid-2011 running El Capitan, and I'm having a problem copying through large files to my TB 5 Seagate external hard drives.  The copy process is so slow that it is useless to try to back up files more.  Does anyone know what I can do to fix this problem?  I found a thread from 2013, mentioned that Spotlight indexing is the problem, but no luck so far.  Anyone got any ideas?  Thank you!!!

  What size is the drive? How are you connected to it? How big are the files?

• icon of the hard drive, not on the screen but can access by menu Q

  Cannot find icon for internal hard drive on the screen. Every thing works and can access the hard drive using spotlight.

  Finder > Preferences > General > hard drive

• Upgrade the hard drive in MacBook Pro?

  Basically what the title says. I saw a site that allows you to send to your MacBook and have offered improved storage I didn't I was going to need it because I wasn't going to do a lot on this computer. Push comes to shove and now "other" it took all the space on my computer (even almost not kidding) got the base model MacBook Pro 120 GB and from this moment other takes 111 GB of the 120 GB. I did try everything possible to delete files, but nothing works. I downloaded an application cleaning and there is absolutely nothing. So if you can recommend someone who proposes to upgrade my hard drive, which would be greatly appreciated.

  Side note:, I tried looking for the site but only find tutorials on how to do it myself and I have myself enough confidence to open this computer and storage upgrade.

  The application of cleaning plant was a mistake.  Each of them can damage your MBP.  Go to the web site of developers for instructions to uninstall and delete it.

  Here is the definition of the OTHER:

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT202867

  Sometimes a re-indexing of Spotlight will correct:

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201716

  Download the Internet OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them. They will show all your files and respective sizes. Transfer to an external HARD disk or remove files, that you no longer want on your MBP.

  Don't forget to empty the trash. Then only the space is allocated for the new data.

  https://www.OmniGroup.com/more

  http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.NET/

  Ciao.

• the iTunes folder copy of office on external hard drive

  I'm trying to back up my iTunes music on an external hard drive folder.  Whenever I try to drag the file to another drive, I get an error stating that "the operation cannot be performed because you do not have permission to access the .iTunes Preferences.plist.  I also have problems backing up my iPhone and iPad because I get an error indicating that there is a problem with the purchased content.

  By some other posts, I tried to remove the .itunes Preferences.plist file, reboot, restart iTunes and try to copy again - I still get the same message.  I tried different external drives without success.  All discs are in Mac OS extended (journaled) format.  I'm running OS X 10.10.5 on a Mid MacPro 2010 that contains 4 HDDs and using iTunes 12.3.3.17.

  Suggestions will be welcome.  Thank you.

  This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.

  Please triple - click anywhere in the line below on this page to select:

  ls -@BOaen M*/iTunes | pbcopy

  Copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination.

  Launch the Terminal application integrated in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Paste in the Terminal window by pressing the command-V key combination. I tested these instructions only with the Safari browser. If you use another browser, you may need to press the return key after pasting.

  Wait for a new line ending with a dollar sign ($) below what you entered.

  The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produces no output, the Clipboard is empty. Paste into a reply to this message.

  The Terminal window does not display the output. Please do not copy from there.

• How to free space on the hard drive?

  Hello, in my "On Mac" section, it says I 233 MB of space on my 121 GB of Flash storage. Previously, I thought it was video files, but it was buggy mac section. I refreshed, hoping he would show me how much space I had left, but he stayed the same. That is the problem. I use my macbook for College written work and - maximum - work on Adobe Creative Suite. When I work on these I use a separate USB key due to the size of the files.

  The only files I have actively created/downloaded on my macbook are the files in the files of my 'Documents', 'Pictures' and 'Applications '. When I use "Get Info" on each, I see that my photo folder is great, My Documents folder is large 1.17 GB and my Applications folder is large 14,68 GB 889,9 MB. These are the only files that I use and backup the files needed for my Macbook running and working properly, the only files I want to keep.

  My question is, basically, if there is a way to lose all the files on my hard drive that are not necessary to keep. I'm not too good when it comes to computers, so I don't want to not just randomly start deleting things. Just to get these road, my garbage can is completely empty and I have nothing in my downloads folder. I have also no large files to film and, when I searched my Macintosh HD for files larger than 500 MB, there is no evidence, so I guess that this is caused by a large amount of small files (I tried to restrict research naturally but then come files that I wasn't sure of what they have done and therefore have not removed the still). If it helps, my about Mac filed 100,64 GB of my free space as 'other '. But I know that is not how much space was taken when I got the Macbook earlier this year and it should not be the size of the files that comes with it by default. There is also a way to restore all the files on my macbook at their stage of default, that I would also be interested, especially if there is a way to do it without rid of files I already have.

  I guess that's a very basic question, can someone help out me?

  1. never remove all the files that you do not understand the purpose. If you do, it's like opening the hood of your car and take bits out of the engine ebcause you think they are not necessary.

  2. it seems more likely that you must rebuild your Spotlight index.

  See the following page:

  https://www.macissues.com/2014/12/12/how-to-determine-when-your-Spotlight-index-besoins-be-rebuilt.

  Towards the end.

• Why is it hard drive see the photos, films and music even after I deleted all

  Hello

  I recently deleted all my photos, movies and music on my Mac to save on hard drive.

  However, despite the removal of all my hard drive is showing:

  3.2 GB movies

  1.3 GB Audio

  Photos of 4.3 GB

  I searched these files and the results come back with nothing but my hard drive is still showing that this space is taken to the top.

  Does anyone have any ideas or ideas?

  Thank you

  Andrew

  Hard drive space and 'other ':

  https://support.Apple.com/en-GB/HT202867

  Also, try to rebuild the Spotlight index: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

• MacBook Air missing hard drive space

  I noticed that the free space on the hard drive on my Macbook Air has been quickly disappear even if I had not been adding lots of new files, certainly not enough to account for the 10s of gigabytes that disappeared last week. I cleaned it of useless media files, which gives him another 20 GB of space. The status bar it reflects accurately at first, but when I started the computer this morning, it had lost 30 GB of this adjustment.

  After you run WhatSize DaisyDisk, I see that they have both claim that my Air uses Go 296, which is in agreement with the about this Mac, but when you look at the size of the actual folders, there is no way that they measure is added to this amount.

  Using Get Info, I got the following:

  14.43 applications gb

  Users 42,45

  System of 7.77

  Library of 8.95

  That all adds up to about 74 GB of used space. WhatSize actually gives me different numbers. Where in the world are the other 220 or so lack of gbs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  (Note: although I typed this out, I noticed that about 8 GB of free space have disappeared in the status bar)

  Here are a few screenshots of WhatSize and disk utility. Of THE claims that 'other' includes 283 GB, but I can't understand what is included in whatever measure it as 'other '.

  

  

  

  If you want more accurate stats from the about this Mac, then to re-index your drive: Spotlight - how to re - index folders or volumes - Apple Support.

  Free space on hard drive

  1. see Lion-Lion/mountain/storage of the Mavericks display.

  2. you can remove the data from your file except for the folder/Home/Library /.

  3. visit The FAQ XLab and read the FAQ on the free space on your hard drive.

  4. also see release space on your Mac OS X startup disk.

  5 see where my disk space gone?.

  6 see the storage view.

  You must empty the trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.

  You should consider to replace the drive with a larger. Check out OWC of readers, tutorials and boxes tools.

  Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are.

• Yosemite projector cannot search seagate external hard drive

  Hello

  I have a 8 TB of seagate drive known as of the "external Seagate backup Plus."

  I formatted the drive in ExFat, and I have no problem reading or writing to the disk. I'm on a Macbook Pro running OSX Yosemite 10.10.2

  * The problem is that Spotlight does not search this disc.

  Please can anyone help solve this problem?

  I searched the Web for a few hours now, without success.  I also tried adding and removing the player preferences-> spotlight-> Privacy tab.  But it does not work

  Thanks in advance!

  Best

  Michael

  Looks like you need to re-index the disk- http://www.cnet.com/news/spotlight-search-not-working-on-external-hard-drive/