Resize success

Macintosh software/hardware discussion and troubleshooting

Moderator: James Steele

Post Reply
User avatar
Phil O
Posts: 7232
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:01 pm
Primary DAW OS: MacOS
Location: Scituate, MA

Resize success

Post by Phil O »

Just a FYI post.

The boot drive on my big mac (as I call it) was getting filled up. More accurately, my boot partition was. I've been hesitant to resize it for fear of losing stuff that can't be replaced. For example I'm still using elemental audio's InspectorXL. It's still working great via 32 Lives but the installer hasn't worked since I don't know when, so if I lose the authorization, I lose it for good. I could copy it to another HD using SuperDuper, but right now it's on my fastest and newest drive. So, I went ahead and gave it a try. -yes, I did a backup first :mrgreen: .

I'm happy to say that it went without a hitch. The resize feature in Disk Utility is straight forward, fast and (as far as I can tell) safe. No need to reformat. Yea Apple!
DP 11.23, 2020 M1 Mac Mini [9,1] (16 Gig RAM), Mac Pro 3GHz 8 core [6,1] (16 Gig RAM), OS 14.3.1/11.6.2, Lynx Aurora (n) 8tb, MOTU 8pre-es, MOTU M6, MOTU 828, Apogee Rosetta 800, UAD-2 Satellite, a truckload of outboard gear and plug-ins, and a partridge in a pear tree.
User avatar
MIDI Life Crisis
Posts: 26254
Joined: Wed May 18, 2005 10:01 pm
Primary DAW OS: MacOS
Contact:

Re: Resize success

Post by MIDI Life Crisis »

Thanks Phil. I've feared that resize feature as well. Good to know it works.
2013 Mac Pro 32GB RAM

OSX 10.14.6; DP 10; Track 16; Finale 26, iPad Pro, et al

MIDI LIFE CRISIS
Post Reply