[Hidden-tech] halp ......so many duplicate files

[Rich@tnr]

I am dealing with a similar case now, and a warning - Time machine 
requires a good bit of working space
SO if you are having space issues, time machine will not work even 
incrementally.

As 2nd drive is the best solution. There are various 'diff' versions 
that can do bulk and sub-directory comparisons.
Well worth having.

Also, I have found switching from iPhoto to Photo appears to leave a 
large number of complex working files,
sorting that out now.

In general, images and worse videos is what fills up a disk, it takes 
1000's of documents to take the same place as one video.
Also, if the older machine backup includes system images and/or 
downloaded installers (usually many copies)
those can be deleted - they are of no use.

Advanced technical help is often very warned, think about it - few 
people have a car without regular use of a shop.
Computers are equally or more complex.

Good luck

Rich

On 1/3/2020 8:10 AM, Hai Nguyen Ly via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> Hi Elyssa:
> I highly recommend starting the process by making a time machine 
> backup of your newest MacBook using an external drive. Once this is 
> done, I would make a bootable copy of your MacBook drive using 
> software such as Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner. Once the bootable 
> drive has been created, you might consider booting from this drive to 
> verify that works. Once this bootable drive has been verified, shut 
> down your mac and disconnect any attached drives. After the attached 
> drives have been disconnected, you can power back on the machine and 
> start deleting user's and contents to free up space with the knowledge 
> that you have two backups just in case something goes sideways. 
> Regarding data backups, remember the mantra, two is one and one is none.
> After you have freed up space on your MacBook, use another external 
> drive for active time machine backups of your cleaned up Mac. 
> Depending on the importance of the data, it may be worth considering 
> keeping an encrypted bootable backup drive in another location.
> I hope this helps a bit. Please feel free to reach out off-list if you 
> would like clarification regarding any of the above.
>
> Cordially:
> Hai Nguyen Ly
>
>> On Jan 3, 2020, at 12:43 AM, Elyssa Serrilli via Hidden-discuss 
>> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net 
>> <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey friends and neighbors,
>>
>> A few years ago, my old Macbook died.  Some nice folks were able to 
>> "rescue the data", and put it on my new Macbook.  They created a new 
>> user to do this, and duplicate files of all my data and apps.  Then 
>> my old new Macbook died. Some nice folks were able to "rescue the 
>> data", and put it on my new new Macbook.  My new new Macbook has 
>> three users on it, each with the old old data 3 times, and the old 
>> data 2 times and the new new data once.  This sucks.  Almost all my 
>> memory is used up.
>>
>> I tried to download a duplicate file deleter app, but I couldn't 
>> because I don't have enough memory to download the one app, and I 
>> don't have a recent enough version of Mac Os to download the other.
>>
>> What can I do?  I have kerzillions of files.  I tried going through 
>> the list one by one using a "Smart Folder", but I have over 12,000 
>> just jpgs.  I have an external hard drive... I wonder if that could 
>> be put to good use in this endeavor.
>>
>> Oh good techies of the valley... what do you know about this? <3
>>
>>
>> In the dance of Service to all Life
>> In Magyckeand Divine Play
>>
>> Elyssa Marie Serrilli
>> /
>> /
>> Cultural Engineer
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>>
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