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How to clone drive, but omit iTunes library?
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I've got a 20 Gig firewire drive. I'd like to clone my main drive onto it, but can't fit unless I omit my iTunes library.
Is there any way to make Carbon Copy Cloner ignore a directory (other than a top-level directory)? There is, frustratingly, no mention of this kind of thing anywhere in the documentation.
Failing that, is there any other inexpensive software that can do what I want? Running Panther, BTW. Can Deja Vu do it, if they get the psync problems resolved under Panther?
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read their help files/FAQs....it must be there.
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Sort of a hap-hazard way of doing it; however, you could simply tell CCC not to clone your Users folder and then copy that stuff over manually to the drive once CCC is done (just don't copy the iTunes Library from it)...
Make sense?
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If you have .Mac you could use Backup and back up everything you need and just exclude your music folder.
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FoldersSychroniser allows you to set up excluded items/folders from your backups.
I'll freely admit that I think the software is overpriced at $40 for what it does but I haven't had any problems with it... ever... other than overcoming a few of the more confusing aspects of the GUI, but it does what it says on the tin.
A "Lite" version is also available but I'm not sure which features it does/doesn't have.
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Originally posted by neilw:
I've got a 20 Gig firewire drive. I'd like to clone my main drive onto it, but can't fit unless I omit my iTunes library.
Can Deja Vu do it, if they get the psync problems resolved under Panther?
The way to handle this with Déjà Vu is to move your iTunes library to another partition (if possible) and place an alias to it in your Music folder. This works because psync doesn't follow aliases.
BTW, there is an updater available on the Déjà Vu page which allows it to work under Panther.
(Last edited by pinlo; Nov 3, 2003 at 04:59 PM.
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Uhhh... I don't have any third party apps and I just opened iTunes preferences and in "advanced" pointed it to a folder on another partition to use as its library. Pretty easy actually.
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Hi!
You could just drag the iTunes folder to the root directory and then tell CCC to omit it, then move it back after cloning. And probably it wouldn't hurt checking permissions afterwards.
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Originally posted by Taipan:
Hi!
You could just drag the iTunes folder to the root directory and then tell CCC to omit it, then move it back after cloning. And probably it wouldn't hurt checking permissions afterwards.
Thanks for all the responses.
The above advice was given to me on the CCC support forums as well, and I think that's what I'm going to do. For now, that should be adequate. For the future, I'll have to look into more elegant solutions.
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