- Mac spinning wheel of death all the time for mac#
- Mac spinning wheel of death all the time install#
- Mac spinning wheel of death all the time windows#
Mac spinning wheel of death all the time for mac#
And not being able to just set BC loose overnight means I have to let it run in the background while I'm trying to get work done, which is also very frustrating.īC4 for Mac is a 32bit application, and would still be under those memory limitations even if your system has more RAM accessible. I probably can get through it, if I break the comparisons down into smaller pieces, but it's hugely frustrating to have to do so, manually keeping track of which directories and subdirectories have been verified, and which ones have not. But this particular time has been more challenging and frustrating. Many of these issues have been around a long time (some on Windows, too), but I usually am able to muddle through them. BC4 seems to leak memory, but is still nowhere close to running out of available RAM. Comparisons are between two internal SATA HDDs, both of which check out just fine with Disk First Aid.
Mac spinning wheel of death all the time install#
I am running a fresh install of OS X 10.12.1 off an SSD in a 2010 Mac Pro w/ 32GB of RAM (which passes extensive testing). I would suggest that the default be set considerably larger than 64K, and that users be allowed to specify buffer sizes in units of MB (or at least KB), rather than in individual Bytes! With modern systems often having 32+ GB RAM, and file sizes in a similar range, it would be nice if the upper limit were raised as well. I've recently tried bumping that up to several GB, but it seems that the maximum BC allows is 999999999 bytes.
It sometimes manages to get through smaller chunks OK, but trying to let it run through larger chunks overnight has always resulted in disappointment the next morning. It's never managed to get all the way through ANY of these tasks. Using the Finder to do the copy, and using BC just to compare the directory trees (not even content).Using the Finder to do the copy, and using BC to do a Binary comparison of the contents.Using BC to do the copy in Folder Sync mode.Using BC to do the copy in Folder Compare mode.I love BC4 when it works (which it usually does for smaller operations), but I've been trying for over a week now to copy & verify about 3TB (a million files or so) from one HDD to another, and BC always either hangs or crashes before completing the operation.
Mac spinning wheel of death all the time windows#
I have often used BC in the past to verify copies (on both Windows and Mac), and it has usually worked OK (albeit slower than I'd like). The Finder isn't very good at large copy operations, and I don't necessarily trust it to do these accurately (with good reason). I've been trying to use BC (Version 4.1.9 (build 21719)) to make sure that all data has been copied accurately between two HDDs before I re-format the first.