


Time Machine will then start making hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. Select your disk from the list, then click Use Disk. Click Select Disk, or Add or Remove Backup Disk. It makes the drives not work so hard to find the data. From the Apple menu select System Preferences > Time Machine. If you want more stability from your sessions you might want to consider consolidating your tracks/playlists into single file audio from the beginning of the session. Also, turn off journaling in disk utility on any ProTools audio drive. Open the Apple menu by clicking on the Apple logo in the top left of your screen. A Mac generally does not require a defragmentation but may become necessary in case the system runs slow due to working with large files such multimedia files. IMO, do not under any circumstances run any Norton product on a Mac/HFS+ audio drive. One way is to use the Storage option in About This Mac. Then, if need be because of your configuration and hardware limits, copy the sessions back to the original audio drive in a new folder with special permissions, relaunch the sessions and make sure everything is shipshape and make sure the audio files you're accessing are from the copied folder and not the original file then trash the original session files if they have not been running/reading correctly. Step 1: The safest and easiest way to do a defrag for a Mac is to use trusted third-party Mac defrag software. They load directly to the second disk intact, thereby defragging the files. But here's my deal.įor me the best way to defrag an audio drive has been to get a second drive and copy the session files directly to it. I would love to hear more input on this topic.
