cloning tiger

[penmanila]

well, not tiger itself but your disk, of course. like many people, i was dismayed to find that cc cloner 2.3 doesn't work yet with tiger--but someone found a workaround, and it works! see below (from versiontracker):


Carbon Copy Cloner DOES work in Tiger 10.4** - Version: 2.3, 5/11/2005 09:07AM PST


This will work in Tiger, but only if you log-in as root (System Administrator) first.

Tiger has a new form of authenticating things, and CCC can't access your keychain properly, so you must use CCC as the root (or System Administrator as it's called in OSX) user to make it work properly.

First you must enable the root user: /Applications/Utilities, open up NetInfo Manager, in the menubar select "security," then "authenticate," put your password is as required. Then go back to "security" and select "enable root."
Log out of your current user, log back in, but this time choose to log in as "System Administrator," using your master password for the password at the user login panel, or choose "other" and type in "root" as your username, and your master password as your password.

From here you can run Carbon Copy Cloner like normal, and it will still clone all of your data, your desktop will look a little different (as it's using a different set of preference files, since you're using a different user account), but the bottom line is all your data will be 100% properly cloned.
Hope this helps.

[PaoloB]

Here's another workaround for CCC to work on Tiger.

- open Terminal-
- Type sudo open /Applications/Carbon\ Copy\ Cloner.app/ (assuming your CCC is in Applications Folder)
- type your admin password
- run the CCC

Hope this works alongside Sir Butch's tip.

HTH

[ditoy_eagle]

Ooops, just saw this. According to Bombich download site, Tiger compatibility is ok already with version 2.3, has anybody confirmed this? To be safe guys, keep the tips above in mind.

Yan Kelvin, this thread is for you

[Edited on 12-8-05 by ditoy_eagle]

[Kelvin]

hahahaha oo nga eh, perfect timing

Can't wait for the enclosure!

Thanks lamski for the heads up on the 100gig, 5400RPM, 16MB cache Toshiba 2.5" hard disk

[jasondv]

Oooh! Been waiting for this for some time. I got the previous version to work by logging in as root but it was a minor pain to have to log out before being able to clone my hard drive. Thanks for the heads up, Ditoy.

[alvinbai]

I was able to clone my wife's HD thru CCC 2.3 when I upgraded her hard drive last week. Everything seem to work perfectly. She's been using the cloned drive for a week now.