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Question about 3 TB (WD) internal Drive and Mac OS 10.6.7
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So needed more storage space for image files. I bought the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX 3TB IntelliPower SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive from New Egg and initialized it. It seems ok but the folder in has 2 " Question Marks" on the window which I have never seen before on any folder. It says there is 3 TB of space available and I know all I should get out of it is 2.7 TB . It will copy files but I have not tried the 2 TB transfer yet because these folder "question marks " made me think something is wrong... Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. 
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Snow Leopard and Lion use base 10 disk sizes so will show up as 3.0TB.
I'd need to see pics of the question marks if possible in order to help with that.
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Here is a screen shot
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(Last edited by richardnyc; Oct 6, 2011 at 06:27 AM.
(Reason:bad photo))
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Looks like a couple icons are missing from the window toolbar. Possibly after an OS upgrade, where Apple moved (or removed) the old icon files.
If this is the case I'd expect them to be missing from all toolbar'd Finder windows. You can rightclick in the toolbar space to "Customize Toolbar", then remove the ? icons and replace them with what you want.
This is most likely unrelated to the new drive.
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Yes you are correct.. all of them have the question mark. I was able to make them go away by dragging the default tool bar in its place. This did not happen after an OS upgrade or any type of install. It happened when I put in the new drive.... The other hint that the drive maybe a problem is that in Disk Utility and also "get info" on the drive it shows as 3 TB available when I know that only 2.7 TB of a 3TB drive of this type should be available. I really appreciate you chiming in as no one at WD can figure this out... Any other ideas I would welcome to hear in case it happens again. Thanks
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Waragainstsleep covered the 3.0 TB issue. If you've ever read the fine print regarding hard drives, they usually say something like "1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes". ie - drive sizes are advertised using 1,000 jumps between KB, MB, GB, TB instead of the correct 1,024. Apple has caved to this with OSX 10.6 and 10.7, making the Finder report the decimal sizes.
Your drive has 3 trillion bytes, or 2.72 TB real size. The Finder will call it 3.0 TB, but if you reboot into Linux it will give the real size. I give a somewhat more detailed explanation in this post ( Question 2).
Go ahead and use the drive. You're good.
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