Merci! Cathy
> ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Jerry > Yeager > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 12:35 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: external drive [bcc][faked-from] > > You might also consider trying the Drive Utility app that lives over in > your Utilities folder. It is famous here for being the app to use to > Repair Permissions (fixes nine out of ten problems, unclogs kitchen sinks, > walks the dog at night in rain storms, etc.) > > Drive Utility will do a lot more for you. If your drive is connected, but > not mounted, DU can take care of that for you, along with ejecting drives, > and more. > > Jerry > > On Aug 15, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > Schoun & Ward, > Many thanks for your input on my question. Will have to temporarily > shelve the emails until the opening-of-school-dust settles and I have the > time to fish around to try to resolve the issue with your suggestions. > Like Marta (and many others), I do appreciate your expertise and > willingness of all to help, and marvel at the depth and breadth of many of > the postings! > > Cathy > > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Schoun > Regan > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:04 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: external drive [bcc][faked-from] > > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Schoun Regan wrote: > > > > > On Aug 14, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > > > >> Greetings all, > >> > >> Since I've maxed out the hard drive of my iMac (G3) desktop > >> running Jaguag (10.2.8), I hooked up a new 160 GB external drive. > > >> I dragged most of the space-hogging stuff to it, but the problem > > >> is: occasionally, the icon doesn't appear on the desktop & doing > > >> a file>find doesn't locate it. So I have to turn off the > external > >> & then back on, which usually does the trick; only a handful of > >> times have I had to restart the whole thing to get it to > >> appear...This makes me a bit nervous, since the only copy of my > >> music files & such is on the external drive. I don't want to > back > >> up the files to my laptop, as that space is getting limited, > >> etc....Is there something I need to set/reset to avoid this from > > >> causing future concern/potentially more serious issues? > >> > >> TIA, > >> Cathy > >> > >> > > > > Cathy, > My error in the initial line of my text. The steps I told you will > also work with any FireWire device. > > Schoun > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is < http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: < mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > | List Web page: < http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I > will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050815/ff06fc92/attachment.html
