[G4] Carbon Copy Cloner Caput

[CJ Scaminaci]

I think CCC actually uses those temporary files as a buffer. Which 
would explain the freezing. When there's not enough RAM to hold files, 
it'll just buffer it straight to the hard-disk. But, when the buffer 
runs out and CCC runs out of stuff to copy until the buffer fills 
again, it gets confused and freezes. I think that's what John was 
getting at.

CJ
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 07:03  PM, John McGibney wrote:

> I remember reading something before that CCC needs lots of room on the 
> boot
> drive to create temporary files before it copies these files to the 
> target
> drive. CCC seems rather ram-hungry and creates these files when enough 
> ram
> isn't available to hold the data for transport. Sometimes these files 
> don't
> seem to be deleted immediately after use. I recall somebody that had 
> the CCC
> freeze had checked his drive and found tons of invisible files filling 
> his
> drive.
>
> If there isn't sufficient space it eventually hangs or gives error 
> messages.
> I had this problem when trying to clone a small X drive on my 9500 to
> another larger drive. I had to clone 2 or three folders at a time and
> relaunch CCC in-between groups. It was annoying but the drive was
> successfully cloned.
>
> John
>
> on 10/26/03 8:14 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List at 
> G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com
> wrote:
>> On 10/24/03,  Lavode <Lavode at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, so this is the third time I've used Carbon Copy Cloner, and 3 out
>>> of 3 times it hangs up.  This time, when run on my Yikes with nothing
>>> else going on the entire time, it got hung up copying the following
>>> file: