At 10:06 AM -0700 8/7/2010, Aidan Prendergast wrote:
Yes it was Carbon Copy Cleaner. I think I will need a checklist to
do both steps...a little over my head...
Please remember to bottom post and trim. Adding top posted material
to already bottom-posted replies makes for a convoluted mess.
On Sat, 8/7/10, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote:
[1 GHz iMac G4, OS X 10.4.11]
Hitachi X250 USB drive, partitioned it into 2 partitions
Gave each a name and then started to clone my main hard drive to
one. Several minutes later the I-mac ejected the drives and does
not recognize the USB drive anymore.
Check [CarbonCopyCloner] log for errors. Also check the system.log
Launch /Applications/Utilities/Console.app
Tell it to show the log list (View/Show Log List).
Click the arrow to open /Library/Logs/
Select CCC.log
That is CarbonCopyCloner's log. Therein it should have some errors
that indicate what happened. Copy the log and paste it into your
reply here (it shouldn't be too long).
system.log is done the same way, sortof - if the information is in
the recent log, then the alias at the top of the list will work. If
it's been a few days, the system maintenance scripts have rolled over
the log, so you'll have to open /var/logs/ and scroll down until you
see the list of system.log files. ...But for now just send us the
info in CCC.log. That's might be enough.
Console.app is a *read-only* browser for the system logs. Peruse all
you want; you can do no damage there. The views are all "live".
That means, for example, if you set it to view your current
system.log, then go do something that causes messages / errors to be
thrown, you'll seem them show up immediately in Console's window.
> Reboot, launch Console.app and set it to view the
system.log. Then plug in the external drive, and
> observe what messages are thrown into Console's window.
Per above info. Start with a clean reboot with the external drive
NOT connected. Launch Console. Select that system.log. Then plug
in the external and watch what shows up.
- Dan.
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