Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Either boot from an external drive and access the internal hdd that way, or just take your time, if the internall hdd is full there's no other easy fix than deleting some stuff. Unless you want to ditch all your data and install a new internal drive that is...

will look into that kboy, any recommendation for a hardrive?

Basically has a 1TB drive currently, and i just store loads of photos on light room.. any recommendation on how to manage photos etc?

any recommendation on how to manage photos etc?

delete the shit ones

If it's 4 years old with a 1TB disk I'd guess it's not an SSD

Single biggest improvement to performance would be get an SSD.

Take the old disk out, use it an external drive. Buy a new SSD and install MacOS fresh onto it.

lightroom keeps secret duplicates of each photo so they take up way more room. I'd only keep copies in lightroom of ones you are actually going to edit. There's a program called OmniDiskSweeper which is free and good to showing you how big each file and folder actually is.

on that note there's also an app called daisy disk which shows you in visual form the amount of space files/folders are taking up on your hard drive, so you could can quickly find what's taking up the most space and delete.

perfect. install more apps!

@seafish have you tried first booting up in safe mode and then deleting files from the hard drive? A friend had a similar issue and this worked for her.

If that works, upgrading to an SSD after would make the world of difference.

This is a good suggestion. If it doesn't work and deleting files really is impossible, the only other option would be to connect your current hard drive to another mac then copy the contents across to a bigger drive using something like SuperDuper. But this would require another Mac and a bigger drive, and possibly removing your hard drive from your Mac.

Is there no modern equivalent to connecting with firewire and holding down T ?

Classic move. Fond memories of ooh-ing over firewire transfer speeds whilst watching the firewire logo

haha

can second getting ssd drives in . Have just up graded my mid 2012 mac book to ssd, taking out the super drive and the original hd. its like having a new computer.
Also wanted to upgrade the Ram but have had mixed reports as to weather or not my mac book can take 16gig of ram ? can any one put it straight.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB.

I spilt water on, and broke my laptop recently. Is there any way I can recover the files on that laptop?

can any one put it straight

The machine can take it but you can't upgrade it

Optional 16 GB RAM configuration available at time of purchase only

Is there any way I can recover the files on that laptop?

Get out the harddrive and put it in an enclosure / in another computer and transfer the files?

In other news I have just brought back a friends' 1st gen black MacBook back to life (hdd was fucked), haven't installed Leopard in a while, haha.

so no snap in snap out ? that's dissapointing as would be great to up the ram... :(
can be done with soldering and a bit of tinkering or is best not not fuck about with it?

I was never lucky enough to have a firewire drive (they were pricey!).

Might still work for all I know.

@Rich_G

Retina or unibody? I've put 16Gb in to a 2012 macbook pro (unibody) before. Use good quality ram as otherwise it can be unstable. Retinas are not upgradeable

Just a firewire cable - the laptop becomes the drive.

Are there any issues with buying American Apple products and using them in the U.K.?

UK:

US:

yeah unibody not a retina one I'll have a look at the insides. I didn't look when doing the SSD swap. ta

Thanks. If that’s it, all should be good.