Re: Lacie ED and Time Machine

[Ronda Brown]

Apparently the problem, according to Lacie support is that:

"If you have a edmini gigabit drive then you will not be able to use  
it with time machine. The USB port on the drive is a USB network port.  
Since time machine doesn't work with network drives, it will not work.  
Also the format on the drive is XFS, and Apple has said that only HFS+  
will work with time machine.


 If you have a edmini 10/100 then the drive should show up on the  
desktop when you connect to it via USB, and after running the  
edmini_logon program in the drive, you will be able to use time  
machine with it, if the drive has been formatted into HFS+ by you."



Is my LaCie hard disk compatible with Time Machine?

On Apple Time Machine Discussions some people suggest:
"Execute this in a Terminal window:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences  
TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1


Launching TM prefs next time should show mounted network volumes in  
the chooser after this.


Having said this, please note that as of now, TM is not officially  
supported for Backups over Network Volumes."


Cheers,
Ronni

On 06/12/2007, at 1:40 PM, Brett Clarke wrote:

The fact that you are logging in to it (the drive) probably means  
that OSX still thinks its Network Attached Storage (NAS), which it  
sounds like what the device was purchased as - even though you are  
using the USB bus to attach it.


I don't think your problem is to do with the drive formatting as  
others have suggested.


I believe as a NAS device, there is some firmware that is producing  
the logon message (which wont be impacted by reformatting) and I  
don't think Time Machine is likely to be compatible with it. Time  
machine will work with network shares provided by OSX 10.5 server,  
but if it worked with the La Cie device you would be lucky indeed!


Regards,

Brett Clarke
Director, Information Systems & Services
Apple Distinguished Educator, 2002

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On 04/12/2007, at 7:53 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:

Hi Wamug, I've got a 250Gb Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini 10/100, and I'd  
like to use it for Time Machine.


This disk was originally setup to allow log on via a network (its  
original purpose).  But now I just want to use it as an external  
drive via USB.
When I plug it in to the USB port, it appears in Finder and I can  
log in.  But Time Machine doesn't recognise it as a valid external  
drive.


After hitting a few brick walls, can anyone illuminate me:
- Can I use this disk for Time Machine?
- If I can but I need to set it up as an external USB drive rather  
than a network drive (with login), how do I do this?


After checking the manual and using the install CD for the disk, I  
can't find any references to setting it up as a USB disk.  So maybe  
it only operates as a network drive.


Thanks for any assistance.

Glenn.

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Re: Lacie ED and Time Machine

[Brett Clarke]

The fact that you are logging in to it (the drive) probably means  
that OSX still thinks its Network Attached Storage (NAS), which it  
sounds like what the device was purchased as - even though you are  
using the USB bus to attach it.


I don't think your problem is to do with the drive formatting as  
others have suggested.


I believe as a NAS device, there is some firmware that is producing  
the logon message (which wont be impacted by reformatting) and I  
don't think Time Machine is likely to be compatible with it. Time  
machine will work with network shares provided by OSX 10.5 server,  
but if it worked with the La Cie device you would be lucky indeed!


Regards,

Brett Clarke
Director, Information Systems & Services
Apple Distinguished Educator, 2002

Presbyterian Ladies' College
14 McNeil Street
PEPPERMINT GROVE
WEST AUSTRALIA  6011

v   +61 8 9424 6483
f+61 8 9424 6466
m  0428 915 485
e   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On 04/12/2007, at 7:53 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:

Hi Wamug, I've got a 250Gb Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini 10/100, and I'd  
like to use it for Time Machine.


This disk was originally setup to allow log on via a network (its  
original purpose).  But now I just want to use it as an external  
drive via USB.
When I plug it in to the USB port, it appears in Finder and I can  
log in.  But Time Machine doesn't recognise it as a valid external  
drive.


After hitting a few brick walls, can anyone illuminate me:
- Can I use this disk for Time Machine?
- If I can but I need to set it up as an external USB drive rather  
than a network drive (with login), how do I do this?


After checking the manual and using the install CD for the disk, I  
can't find any references to setting it up as a USB disk.  So maybe  
it only operates as a network drive.


Thanks for any assistance.

Glenn.

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Re: Filemaker Pro Server Problem

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 05/12/2007, at 10:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




Hi Guys

I have a Filemaker 8 advanced server here running instant web  
publishing hosting
7 databases.  On occasions I am getting an error 13 when trying to  
open 2 of

these database.  I am running this on an xServe on 10.3.9

I have done a search but have found no help as of yet, perhaps I am  
using the

wrong search pattern!

Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards

Roger



Filemaker Error 13 says that an object or file is "in use". I presume  
you have tried stopping and starting Filemaker Server. Have you tried  
closing the server and opening the files directly into Filemaker?  
There may be some scripts not executing completely, active fields,  
etc. A difficult one to solve remotely.


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Re: Itunes

[Ronda Brown]

On 05/12/2007, at 5:29 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote:

Can iTunes 7.5 be run from an external drive without it having to be  
on an

internal drive? OS 10.4.11.

If so, I'll move it using SuperDuper.


Hi Michael,

You cannot load the iTunes app on a HD without there being a system  
installed.


You can store your iTunes Library on an External Firewire Drive. There  
are of course some issues with doing this.
Particularly if you use a Laptop computer that will not always be  
connected to the external drive.


Instructions for how to do this correctly are here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

& another good explanation here:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/11856/

Cheers,
Ronni

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Re: Sent or not sent?

[Ronda Brown]

On 05/12/2007, at 4:47 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

Today my wife took our Macbook (Tiger 10.4.11)offsite, way out of  
wireless range and among other things wrote some emails and "Sent"  
them.  No warning messages.   I expected them to sit in the "Out"  
box until she rebooted at home this afternoon.  Lo and behold, they  
are sitting in the "Sent" box.   With hindsight it would have been  
better to save them all as drafts to send later.
Has she somehow unwittingly gatecrashed a wireless network?  Have  
they really gone?   How can I find out?  Of course I can just  
"Resend" them all but that is clumsy and messy and annoying for the  
recipients.  I can not believe that Mail would put them in the Sent  
box if they had not actually gone.

Severin Crisp


Hi Severin,

If they are in the Sent Box and your Wife didn't put them there  I  
would say they have been sent.

When a message is sent Mail keeps a copy in the Sent Box.
They would be in the Outbox if they haven't been sent.

Go back to the place where your wife 'sent' the emails & check if you  
are in range of a unprotected wireless network??


Cheers,
Ronni

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Re: Sent or not sent?

[Reg Whitely]

Yes but...

On 5 Dec 2007, at 5:05pm, Robert Howells wrote:


Other things disregarded , it is not that difficult to resend them .

Drag & drop the message from the Send box to Drafts box
Open the drafts box , double click on the message and hit the send  
button.


Just open the email in the Sent box, go to Message menu and 'Send  
Again' (which I've just had to do as I sent my first response to Rob,  
not to the list!)


:-)

Reg

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Re: DVD regions

[Mark Secker]

Most (well most that I know) DVD players  are actually multi region 
players. BUT they hide it way, no menu or direct access and usually 
different from manufacturer to manufacturer and even model to model.


For example
mine is changed by turning the unit off and then holding down the 
numeric key on the remote for several seconds when you turn the unit 
back on


my parent's  is changed by holding down the numeric keypad on the 
remote that corresponds to the region as you press the eject /close 
button on the front of the player.


One of my sisters you put it in to standby and hold down the numeric 
key on the remote as you take then press the standby/wake button on 
the remote.


another sister's one (one of the DVD+VHS models) you hold down the 
channel select button on the face when you power it up and then 
select the region from a on screen menu.


if you know what model they have you should be able to google for its 
multi region key combo.


alternatively use something like "Mac The Ripper" 
(http://www.mactheripper.org/ )on your mac to strip the region coding 
out, you can also use this to remove UOP's (The user operation 
prohibition )  (where you can't forward through the opening pre menu 
items) but be careful as I turned a few burnt disks in to drink 
coasters where they wouldn't play in component DVD players (even 
though they would play in my mac OK) when I turned off some of the 
UOP.



I recently bought DVDs to send as presents to UK and I now find that 
they can't be played outside Australia. I gather this is old news, 
but  is there any software that would let my copy  DVDs and change 
the region code?.
I looked for something called "Shrink" but this seems to be only for 
microsoft systems.
I'm not normally into copying things, but this is different - I'd 
have been happy to pay for things my friends can use.


Dick Anderson




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Itunes

[Michael Hawkins]

Can iTunes 7.5 be run from an external drive without it having to be on an
internal drive? OS 10.4.11.

If so, I'll move it using SuperDuper.


Thanks,

Michael Hawkins.




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Re: Sent or not sent?

[Robert Howells]

On 05/12/2007, at 3:47 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

Today my wife took our Macbook (Tiger 10.4.11)offsite, way out of  
wireless range and among other things wrote some emails and "Sent"  
them.  No warning messages.   I expected them to sit in the "Out"  
box until she rebooted at home this afternoon.  Lo and behold, they  
are sitting in the "Sent" box.   With hindsight it would have been  
better to save them all as drafts to send later.
Has she somehow unwittingly gatecrashed a wireless network?  Have  
they really gone?   How can I find out?  Of course I can just  
"Resend" them all




but that is clumsy and messy


Other things disregarded , it is not that difficult to resend them .

Drag & drop the message from the Send box to Drafts box
Open the drafts box , double click on the message and hit the send  
button.







and annoying for the recipients.
I can not believe that Mail would put them in the Sent box if they  
had not actually gone.


Yes !  I agree .  If Mail cannot access the server it usually tells  
you .  ( 10.4.8 )


Might be an idea to check with the destinations to see if they did  
arrive



Bob





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