I love my Mac environment, from using macOS to continuity, to iCloud, it allows for me to be able to have a flexible workflow. Whether I'm working on my Mac mini at the start of my day in my office or changing to my back deck using my MacBook Pro in the afternoon, macOS's features allow it to happen since all of my files are accessible to me via iCloud. But iCloud can't help with very large video files, Photo libraries, or Final Cut Pro libraries. Local disk space is what you need to rely on.
May 05, 2012 The drive is formatted as NTFS. Mac OS X cannot write to NTFS unless you enable that capability. NTFS (Windows NT File System) Read/Write NTFS from native Windows. Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X.To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X, here are some alternatives. On your Mac, copy the picture you want to use to the Clipboard. One way to do this is to open the picture in the Preview app, choose Edit Select All, then choose Edit Copy. Select the file or folder whose icon you want to replace, then choose File Get Info. At the top of the Info window, click the picture of the icon, then choose Edit Paste.
Running out of local disk space
Apple making Macs more appliance-like have the major drawback of not being able to install larger drives when you need more disk space. Apple has bet big on using dongled peripherals but that too has its limits (my poor Mac mini has no free TB3 nor USB ports left).
Sep 12, 2013 Used to be that every external device you plugged into a Mac system had the same generic hard drive icon, but you’re right, now a lot of drives seem to have their own icons. I think many of them have the icon added when the drive is first formatted by the manufacturer, actually, because it’s sometimes weird how similar the icon is to the. Option One: Change an Individual Drive Icon with Drive Icon Changer. The easiest way to change the icon for an individual drive is with a free tool named Drive Icon Changer.It was originally written for Windows Vista but it also works in Windows 7, 8, and 10 to let you quickly change the icon for any drive. Apr 12, 2019 Depending on the type of work you're doing, you can probably connect a network drive and use it like you would locally. Networked drives. A networked drive can range from a specialized appliance that offers data redundant storage such as a Synology Diskstation to a lone PC that has a shared folder visible on the network. Mar 02, 2014 Create customized icons for your Mac hard drive, flash drives, programs, and folders using this simple technique. Create Custom Icons for Your Mac Tech Talk America. Make Custom macOS.
So how can you get more working space without having to buy a brand new Mac with the disk capacities you require? Depending on the type of work you're doing, you can probably connect a network drive and use it like you would locally. Here's how.
Networked drives
A networked drive can range from a specialized appliance that offers data redundant storage such as a Synology Diskstation to a lone PC that has a shared folder visible on the network. If you plan on running your application off of files on a networked drive, you'll be limited to the bandwidth of the networked device.
Accessing Pages files, PDFs, and general text-based documents, a WiFi or 1 gigabit wired ethernet connection might be enough for you.
You could run FCP libraries from that type of ethernet connection or even WiFi, but in reality, you're going to have a bad time. The speed is much too slow.
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If you need networked access to very large files, you'll need faster network speeds. For example, a new Mac mini has the ability to be attached with a Cat6 wire to your network at 10-gigabit speeds. Your networked files would be accessible at near HDD speeds (not SSD speeds mind you). So plan accordingly for your requirements.
You can get more information on how to share your files on a network from a Mac.
Making permanent connections
Once you've set up a networked drive or device, you can have your Mac attach to it each time you log in. Here's how.
- From the Mac you want to mount a networked drive, start System Preferences.
- Select Users &Groups.
- Click Login Items.
- Click +.
- Navigate to your networked Server.
- Highlight the share you'd like to have automatically mount.
- Click Add.
Now each time you log in, that remote drive will be mounted.
Making the extra disk space usable
Now that you have the network drive permanently mounted, you can assign your various programs to use that location for default file storage. Typically, the mount will be in /Volumes/NameOfShareYouSelected. So for example, if you want to open a new Photo Library from the networked location, do the following.
- Option-Click Photos.
- Click Create New.
- Navigate to your Mounted Drive.
- Click Ok.
Now you'll have a Photo Library running from your remote drive no longer using local disk space.
Some extras
If you're really in need of freeing up local disk space, you can also set up Symbolic Links in your home folder to have all of your documents, downloads, music, etc, run from the remote disk. Note that these types of customized home folders should only be used if you use a stationary Mac like a Mac mini or an iMac.
Final thoughts
With the sort of experience I'm having with maxing out my Mac mini's Thunderbolt 3 ports, I'd be lying if said I wasn't worried about Apple's upcoming Mac Pro that is rumored to be 'modular'. Will it be limited also to dongles or only Apple-approved expansion modules? Probably. Swapping in a 2 TB HDD will always be cheaper than buying an Apple certified 2TB expansion HDD with an Apple-branded modular enclosure. That being said, hopefully, there will still be a way to make your Mac computing flexible to fit your needs. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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By default, Windows 10 does not offer you an option to change a drive's icon. But this limitation can be easily bypassed with a simple Registry tweak. In this article, we will see how to change the icon of a particular drive (partition) or set a new icon for all disk drives at once.
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Here are default drive icons in Windows 10:Let's start with individual drives and partitions. With Registry editing, you can make Windows 10 show a customized icon for a specific partition or disk drive installed in your PC.
Specific Drive Icon - Change in Windows 10
Specific Drive Icon - Change in Windows 10
Do it as follows.
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- Open Registry Editor. If you are not familiar with Registry Editor, see this excellent tutorial.
- Go to the following key:Tip: You can access any desired Registry key with one click.
Note: If the DriveIcons key does not exist, just create it. - Under the DriveIcons subkey, create a new subkey and use the drive letter (ex: D ) that you want to change the icon for. See this image:
- Under the subkey which represents the drive letter, in my case it is D, create a new subkey and name it DefaultIcon:
In the right pane of DefaultIcon subkey, modify the (Default) value. Double click it and set its value to the full path to your custom icon file. In my case, I will use the file named 'Longhorn Drive.ico' which I have in the C:icons folder:Once this is done, re-open the This PC folder to see the changes:
Repeat this operation for all drives whose icons you need to change.
All Drives Icon (default drive icon) - Change in Windows 10
Again, let's apply a simple tweak to change them.
Again, let's apply a simple tweak to change them.
- Open Registry Editor. If you are not familiar with Registry Editor, see this excellent tutorial.
- Go to the following key:Tip: You can access any desired Registry key with one click.
Note: If the Shell Icons key does not exist, just create it. - Create a new string value at the above key called 8 by right clicking in the right pane and choosing New -> Expandable String value.Set its value data to the path of your icon file. I will use the drive icon from Windows Vista, which I placed in c:icons:See the following screenshot:
- Restart Explorer. Alternatively, instead of restarting Explorer.exe, you can also log off and log back in to your Windows 10 user account.
Once restarted, you will see that all drives have got the same icon you specified.
As for the system drive, you still need to specify its icon separately at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDriveIconsCDefaultIcon subkey as mentioned earlier.
That's it.
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