Sandbox and Time Machine

[dnanian]

Does "About This Mac" indicate the boot volume is "SAMMY"?

Or if you disconnect the TM drive when booting back...

[pasha]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Does "About This Mac" indicate the boot volume is "SAMMY"?

Or if you disconnect the TM drive when booting back...

Thanks again!

The boot volume is SAMMY but there's no SAMMY in the finder, only Macintosh HD.

Well, just to beef up the picture, my iMac with a 5400 RPM drive has become slow. I was looking into the possibility to boot from an SSD in USB 3.0 enclosure. I have more data on the internal drive that a 250 GB SSD can hold so I was evaluating the sandbox first. In the future a more standard setup would be moving the big iTunes and iPhoto libraries out of the internal drive to an external one and keep all the system apps and docs in a superduper clone as the primary boot drive SSD, USB 3.0 (I can't find any thunderbolt case so far).

During my tests I will keep TM OFF on both the sandbox and the internal drive until I decide what's better for me, yesterday it took ages to sync TM so I have learned my lesson.. :-)

In any case superduper is fantastic!

Best Regards
Pasha

[dnanian]

Check your Finder preferences to see if you have it set up to not show some devices....

[pasha]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Check your Finder preferences to see if you have it set up to not show some devices....

Actually that was the trick, External drives excluded.
Now I see all that I need. Simply have to remember that SAMMY is the boot drive if I need to look at System Library and Apps, while everything else is available in the Internal Drive as I used Shared Users (more App speed). However apps need parameter info that are stored at the user level so the neutral apps (as Settings) are very speedy while User preferences Apps are still slower than expected as they have to read data from the internal drive anyway, in the User folder. (for example the Dock has preferences that are stored in the User folder and because 11.10 and 10.9 have different settings, 10.9 (on the internal drive) appears messed up a little when I boot back.
This makes me think that although Sandbox gave me a serious look at the possible speed increment in a way it's pushing me towards a full clone.

Thanks a lot in helping me. Superduper it's fantastic and the people behind it too! :-)

[dnanian]

A pleasure - glad I could help.