Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Happy New Year to everyone,

I have an Imac Intel. I have roughly about 70GB left on the hard drive. I currently have Live, Logic Express v7, and Reason on the current system. I save my music on the external hard drive. I uploaded a lot of my old cds, some movies, and videos to Itunes so that I could put them on my Ipod. I'm assuming that the Itunes library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard drive.  I'm looking at upgrading to Logic Studio.  I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I could free up more space on my hard drive so that I would use majority of the space that is left on the upgrade. I have an 1TB external hard drive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,

Stephen 


      

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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:42:16 -0800 (PST), Stephen Klugh wrote:
> Happy New Year to everyone,
> 
> I have an Imac Intel. I have roughly about 70GB left on the hard 
> drive. I currently have Live, Logic Express v7, and Reason on the 
> current system. I save my music on the external hard drive. I 
> uploaded a lot of my old cds, some movies, and videos to Itunes so 
> that I could put them on my Ipod. I'm assuming that the Itunes 
> library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard drive.  I'm 
> looking at upgrading to Logic Studio.  I was wondering if anyone had 
> any ideas on how I could free up more space on my hard drive so that 
> I would use majority of the space that is left on the upgrade. I have 
> an 1TB external hard drive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

I use a Mac Mini as a server, not for music, but the same applies.

I have the external as the boot drive (since the internal is a portable
drive and has rather bad performance and shortened life time since it is
not a constant on rated device).

I use the internal for backups of crucial data, but mainly unused.

You might consider this scenario.

I think trimming the Mini's internal drive is a losing proposition
since as the system it will always be growing and fluctuating in some
way.

The other alternative is to change the internal drive to a new 500GB
drive and install the OS and logic on that.  That is the kind of drive
I have in my portable and they are really quite nice (and I run Logic 
on it
when I am out and about).

Changing the internal drive of a Mac Mini is kind of challenging
but armed with good internet explanations and a good putty knife
it is doable.

Good luck.


W,

Happy new year, Stephen...

One way you might be able to free up 1 or 2 gigs of space would be to run a
program called ³Monolingual²

<http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/>

Use caution not to delete your native language, however :)

Ken Newman
sndmxr@...


On 1/1/09 12:42 PM, "Stephen Klugh" <stephen_klugh@...> wrote:

> Happy New Year to everyone,
> 
> I have an Imac Intel. I have roughly about 70GB left on the hard drive. I
> currently have Live, Logic Express v7, and Reason on the current system. I
> save my music on the external hard drive. I uploaded a lot of my old cds,
> some movies, and videos to Itunes so that I could put them on my Ipod. I'm
> assuming that the Itunes library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard
> drive.  I'm looking at upgrading to Logic Studio.  I was wondering if anyone
> had any ideas on how I could free up more space on my hard drive so that I
> would use majority of the space that is left on the upgrade. I have an 1TB
> external hard drive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 



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Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into both.




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From: Ken Newman <sndmxr@...>
To: "Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com" <Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2009 2:53:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Logic_Cafe] Clearing space on Hard Drive


Happy new year, Stephen...

One way you might be able to free up 1 or 2 gigs of space would be to run a
program called ³Monolingual²

<http://monolingual. sourceforge. net/>

Use caution not to delete your native language, however :)

Ken Newman
sndmxr@watamix. com

On 1/1/09 12:42 PM, "Stephen Klugh" <stephen_klugh@ yahoo.com> wrote:

> Happy New Year to everyone,
> 
> I have an Imac Intel. I have roughly about 70GB left on the hard drive. I
> currently have Live, Logic Express v7, and Reason on the current system.  I
> save my music on the external hard drive. I uploaded a lot of my old cds,
> some movies, and videos to Itunes so that I could put them on my Ipod. I'm
> assuming that the Itunes library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard
> drive.  I'm looking at upgrading to Logic Studio.  I was wondering if anyone
> had any ideas on how I could free up more space on my hard drive so that I
> would use majority of the space that is left on the upgrade. I have an 1TB
> external hard drive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 

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I'm assuming that the Itunes library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard
> > drive.  


Before you delete anything, I recommend running a program called Omni Disk Sweeper.  It'll 
give you a quick breakdown of what's taking up space on your hard drive.

I think it's a free download:
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/

> Clearing space on Hard Drive
> Posted by: "Stephen Klugh" stephen_klugh@...   stephen_klugh
> Thu Jan 1, 2009 12:42 pm (PST)
>
> ...
> I have an Imac Intel. I have roughly about 70GB left on the hard  
> drive. I currently have Live, Logic Express v7, and Reason on the  
> current system. I save my music on the external hard drive. I  
> uploaded a lot of my old cds, some movies, and videos to Itunes so  
> that I could put them on my Ipod. I'm assuming that the Itunes  
> library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard drive.  I'm  
> looking at upgrading to Logic Studio.  I was wondering if anyone had  
> any ideas on how I could free up more space on my hard drive so that  
> I would use majority of the space that is left on the upgrade. I  
> have an 1TB external hard drive. Any advice would be greatly  
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen

Stephen,

One thing you can do is Move your ITunes library to the external  
drive.... or even have multiple ITunes libraries, one on the internal  
on the larger one on the external drive....  (Under the "advanced"  
preferences, you can specify the location of the iTunes folder..)..

You can do the same thing with iPhoto if you have a lot of images.. (I  
have about 30GB)

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--marcel
Shh! Be vewy, vewy qwiewet! I'm hunting wuntime ewwors




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--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, "dynamiteham" <dynamiteham@...> wrote:
> 
> Before you delete anything, I recommend running a program called
Omni Disk Sweeper...
> http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/
>

This is GREAT! Thanks for the link!

chuck bryant

Thanks for all the help. I have free up space on the hard drive using everyones suggestions. I can now put the software on the desktop.

Thanks for all the help.



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From: cb50dc <cb50dc@...>
To: Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2009 8:27:56 PM
Subject: [Logic_Cafe] Re: Clearing space on Hard Drive


--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogro ups.com, "dynamiteham" <dynamiteham@ ...> wrote:
> 
> Before you delete anything, I recommend running a program called
Omni Disk Sweeper...
> http://www.omnigrou p.com/applicatio ns/omnidisksweep er/
>

This is GREAT! Thanks for the link!

chuck bryant

 


      

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