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OS drive usage stats vs clone usage stats
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1715482" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>There have been some good suggestions so far. Rather than searching for files by extension I'd probably use one of the file / folder synchronization utilities to compare the two drives and see what the differences are. There are a number of these apps in the App Store some free and some paid. Many of these programs can be configured to show you any files that are in different between these two drives.</p><p></p><p>A couple of other factors may affect the drive space numbers perhaps others can comment on the extent that these things come into play in this situation:</p><p>1. When a drive is cloned not all files are copied IIRC. Some files are not copied because they are recreated when the drive is booted from the clone. The files I'm thinking of are usually relatively small though and would not account for the differences seen here.</p><p>2. There might be a difference in the minimum size "blocks" on each drive. Again I'm not sure if it is as much of an issue as it used to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1715482, member: 131855"] There have been some good suggestions so far. Rather than searching for files by extension I'd probably use one of the file / folder synchronization utilities to compare the two drives and see what the differences are. There are a number of these apps in the App Store some free and some paid. Many of these programs can be configured to show you any files that are in different between these two drives. A couple of other factors may affect the drive space numbers perhaps others can comment on the extent that these things come into play in this situation: 1. When a drive is cloned not all files are copied IIRC. Some files are not copied because they are recreated when the drive is booted from the clone. The files I'm thinking of are usually relatively small though and would not account for the differences seen here. 2. There might be a difference in the minimum size "blocks" on each drive. Again I'm not sure if it is as much of an issue as it used to be. [/QUOTE]
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