


CCC now offers more detailed progress indication while a task is running, including a time remaining estimate. We completely redesigned every element in CCC to offer a high quality Dark Mode experience. CCC’s main window is reorganized to make it smaller while making many of the controls and font sizes larger. It’s been a while since we’ve given CCC’s interface an update and think you’ll enjoy its sleek new look. CCC 6 is optimized for macOS Big Sur and includes a “completely rebuilt” file copier built on a multi-threaded design.ĬCC says the latest software can update your backups “up to 20x faster” thanks to integration with the macOS FSEvents service – meaning it doesn’t have to scan all of your Mac’s folders for changes anymore.Īnother major change is a redesigned UI with Dark Mode. Version 6 comes with a long list of new features and improvements including up to 20x faster performance, redesigned UI with Dark Mode, backup audit, snapshot navigator, task preview, and much more.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner (CCC) announced version 6 on its blog today and detailed the host of new features and changes. Choose "USB" from that menu and hit enter, and the VM should now boot off the USB device.Popular advanced backup software for Mac, Carbon Copy Cloner is out with a major update today. You'll see an image of a star field, and a menu Plug the USB device into your Mac, and connect it to the VM using the "Virtual Machine" menu -> "USB" -> "Connect ".Go to "Advanced Settings", and configure the VM to boot from this new floppy drive.Under "Other devices", add a Floppy drive, configured to use this. Launch VMWare fusion, and open the Settings for the VM you want to use.

In the top level of the extracted folder, you'll find a file called plpbt.img.Extract the Zip file to a temporary location on your hard drive.zip file containing the Plop boot manager. Visit the download site and download the latest.(Historically, at least) Fusion does not allow you to boot directly from a USB drive without a third party tool such as the Plop Boot Manager, which is a small, bootable disk image allowing you to then boot from the external drive. Of course, this may run into the same USB hurdle because that seems to be the real issue here, but it's worth trying. Since your external drive is a bootable clone, another option should be booting your VM from that external drive, and then cloning to the VMs drive rather than migrating.
