Month: December 2015

23 Dec 2015

My Mac mini was purchased as a server version with 2nd 1Tb internal HDD.  I have been using the 2nd 1 TB drive as the BU for the Mac HD. using TimeMachine.
Currently I am running Yosemite 10.10.5 – El Capitan looks to be too probematical with many apps including FinalCutProX
I do a lot of video work so having plenty of free HDD space is important for smooth running .

My user folder has grown to around 300GB which caused me concern about having enough free space for the system to run efficiently.

I decided that I should clean off the 2nd drive and move my users folder there creating plenty of additional space on the main drive ( System )

When I went to the web seeking tutorial guides to do this they all used “terminal” .  I am not comfortable using code so opted to take it to a local Mac dealer ” My Tech Guys ” in Courtney .  Big mistake – They said they knew how to do this but after 2 days the told me that they had run into problems and needed to do a clean reinstall and try again . I received the Mini back today and it was in the same state as when it left but with $150 invoice attached 🙁
They have not been in the least apologetic or willing to reimburse me for the extra charges . Needless to say I will not be returning there !

I scanned the web again and found this tutorial :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6jJEgLzhM

This is a very simple and easy to follow process but first make sure you make a current back-up before you start – Just in case 🙂

This worked perfectly form me and took less than 10 mins of actually sitting at the computer. I now have 400GB of headroom on the Mac HD System Drive.

15 th Dec. 2015

Update april 2017
http://tomndi.blogspot.ca/2017/04/brother-mdc-9340-cdw-2yrs-on-replaced.html

Updated 3 Mar 2016
Resetting the page counter when low toner is indicated on the panel :
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3381198216740402850#editor/target=post;postID=4650195164236464938;onPublishedMenu=posts;onClosedMenu=posts;postNum=0;src=link

1/2¢ per page black and 0.5¢ for colour

I have been having issues with printer supply costs and have now arrived at a satisfactory solution.

Previously when I switched from inkjet to laser for colour printing on the promise of lower supply input costs . For that I chose a Samsung multipurpose machine which used round toner cartridges. The original cartridges are costly and refilled ones seemed to be short lived, maybe because with Samsung’s system most of the toner finished up in the waste toner collector .

After switching back to Inkjet with an on special HP Multifunction was bought but even with Costco HP refill program this too was eating cartridges all too frequently.

I long ago switched to Laser Monocolour with a Brother HL-2270DW which is both very economical on toner ( InkOwl refills last approx 1 year per refill @ $13 for 2600 pages  = 0.5¢/page) .  Based on this I began researching the currently available colour lasers with two criterior in mind – 1 long duty cycle and low colour cost per page .  The Brother MFC- 9340 multifuntion was highly rated and so purchased with a 3 year replacement warranty with a $150 discount @ Staples for $349 .

It was fairly easy to set up on my Apple systems except the supplied CD with drivers was way out of date. But the correct ones for Yosemite were found at Brother support and installed.

InkOwl also offer toner kits for this model @ $ 70 which claim a same as original output of 1400 colour pages = 5¢/page



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