Superduper stalls on Macbook

[David_D]

I've had no trouble making full clones using SuperDuper on my PowerMac G5 and my recently stolen PowerBook G4. I bought a new MacBook Pro with Parallels 3 and Windows XP installed and SuperDuper stalls trying to clone to an external drive. I've tried with and without Smart Update and the problem still occurs. I get a Startup Disk Full warning and the available space on the startup disk goes to at or near zero. After restarting, the available space returns to 42GB. There should be plenty of room. When the clone operation reaches the point at which it stalls, the number of files copied increases about 1 every couple of seconds, so it's moving but very slowly. It appears to be midway through copying the Applications folder.

[dnanian]

See my support email reply to your original question, David. (Sorry I didn't reply immediately, but you sent email to me at 2am my time.)

[jacob.patton]

I'm trying to copy from a SD backup from my external drive to a new HD drive I've just installed in my Macbook. I've tried smart updating the new drive from the SD backup twice now, and both times the cloning process seems to have stalled after nearly completing the file transfer.

Could you help troubleshoot this problem dnanian?

-Jacob
jacob DOT patton AT gmail DOT com

[dnanian]

Hi, Jacob. It's likely copying a large file. Please drop me a note at the support email address and I'll send along some commands that should help.

[jacob.patton]

Thanks for the quick reply (off list), Dave.

It turns out that SD was attempting to make a copy of Google Desktop's large index. Thanks to Dave's advice, I followed the instructions in the SD users' guide to ignore the Google Desktop index (at /Library/Google/Desktop/index).

-Jacob