I think I'm closer to the answer. On the first two (failed) tries, the first folder was some photos, which cloned fine, but the next was my applications folder, and that's where it stalled both times. So this time I deleted the Apps folder from CCC before cloning, and bingo, a full backup in under an hour. So now, I'm repeating the process, but just cloning the Apps folder. Fingers crossed. On 8/19/03 8:54 PM, "Gary D. Adams" <gdadams1 at cox.net> wrote: > Yesterday when I cloned on external drive to another using CCC, I just > left the machine running. It took less than an hour for whatever, > because when I came back to it, it was finished. No target disk mode. > That would work only with another machine, not with a drive.