Re: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??

[Ashley Mulder]

To add something else to the matter

I never delete anything from a usb stick
When it is full i merely drag and drop all the data into a folder on my mac (to 
do with what i wish at a later date)
And then reformat

Yes, a SSD can only sustain a limited number of reformats before giving up the 
ghost (specially more so the cheaper ones)
but with USB sticks so cheap nowadays (>$10 for => 2Gb) its no biggy
If it does, it goes in the bin

(quick hunting around reveals i have about 6 sticks varying in size from 128mb 
to 4gb, and to date NONE have done any dodgy yet)



Ashley Mulder
BSc (Forensic and Analytical Chemistry) | (Forensic Science Hons.)
PhD Student (Chemistry)
Department of Chemistry
Curtin University
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Font mystery

[Bill Parker]

Just now I wanted to use a font called  AQUA KANA.

FontBook.app does not list it, so its not switched off 	FontDoc.app  
sees it, but nothing else does.  Where is it? Find doesn't find it!


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Re: Kernel Panic

[Clive Slater]

Thanks for your help, Disk still won't verify.

Clive
On 26/04/2011, at 11:41 AM, cm wrote:



Hi Clive,

I will be out of contact for most of the rest of the daylight hours  
today. I am glad to hear that repair permissions is running now.  
After it runs, verify the disk if you can. If both go through OK,  
you may be clear of problems. On the other hand, you may have an  
intermittent disk hardware problem that will show itself again at a  
future time. You may need to keep an eye on it for a while to see  
if problems recur.


Cheers,
Carlo

On 2011-04-26, at 11:29, Clive Slater wrote:



Spoke too soon Repairing Permissions is working

On 26/04/2011, at 10:41 AM, cm wrote:



When you say there were no problems when you ran Tech Tools Pro,  
does that mean that your computer is currently running? If so  
take the opportunity to backup your data. Once you have the  
backup try to run Disk Utility again to repair file permissions  
and to verify the disk. Let us know how you get along.


Cheers,
Carlo

Sent from my iPad

On 26/04/2011, at 10:28, Clive Slater   
wrote:




Hi Carlo

Computer froze, so I ran Disk Utility, received the failure  
notice and then restarted using the install disk intending to  
run disk utilities from there but received kernel panic. I have  
run Tech Tools Pro which has not come up with any problems,  
computer appears to be running ok.


Regards

Clive
On 26/04/2011, at 10:18 AM, cm wrote:



Hi Clive,

It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what  
circumstances did you start the re-install of OS X, was there a  
problem reading or writing files or did you just want to upgrade?


Cheers,
Carlo


On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:



Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE  
SYSTEM VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and  
is having a Kernel Panic when starting from install DVD  
10.5.7. I saved the log file but don't actually know what I am  
looking for, have tried to restart in "single mode" but kernel  
panic there as well. Any suggestions


Regards

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Re: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??

[Derek Perry]

Hi Peta,
I move photo's between Windows XP & Mac, (eMac & i Mac) both ways, using  flash 
drives of many different sizes & don't have any problems, & I have never 
formatted any of them, just used them straight out of the packet.
Derek
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 8:25 AM
  Subject: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??


  Good morning all


  I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the 
correspondence on the Seagate external drive.   This query is very similar to 
mine I think, but maybe slightly different, so I have given mine a different 
heading.


  I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I have gone 
basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) Windows onto mainly 
friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey 
Norman to copy and print photos.  (Obviously, about 5 years ago this became to 
and from my Mac, to their Windows or Macs).


  Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not "quite 
right")  I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks with a batch of 
photos for printing, to learn that apparently because the formatting was done 
on a Mac, I could not copy the photos onto one of their machines.


  So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the photos I 
wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully printed.


  A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac and 
transferred them onto my Mac.  **This set of photo had been downloaded onto his 
Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a Windows PC).


  Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick.  When it showed up 
empty in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including about 30 from the batch 
as in the above paragraph.


  About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed.


  When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded right up 
to the point where I had put my name, address and so on.  Very strange though, 
it said there were 500 odd photos.  Being distracted at the time because I was 
due to meet someone, I assumed I had downloaded more photos than I had 
realised, and just proceeded.


  Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared "there has been a fatal 
error" and shut down.  The girl behind the counter did not know why and 
suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all went through (still 
showing over 500 photos though).


  Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them out - yes 
there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the large batch downloaded 
from the DVD set, which had been deleted from the USB stick and which did not 
show up in Finder.  There were duplicates and triplicates of some of these.


  So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from it.  It 
is on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin.  Before I deleted 
everything showing I checked and yes, it definitely only showed 121 items.


  In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only copying 
from my Mac onto other Macs?  I do not think I have formatted my USB sticks 
ever, certainly not for many years.


  Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or vice 
versa?   I have done this in the past with no problems, though not recently.


  Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break.


  Peta



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Re: Kernel Panic

[cm]

Hi Clive,

I will be out of contact for most of the rest of the daylight hours today. I am 
glad to hear that repair permissions is running now. After it runs, verify the 
disk if you can. If both go through OK, you may be clear of problems. On the 
other hand, you may have an intermittent disk hardware problem that will show 
itself again at a future time. You may need to keep an eye on it for a while to 
see if problems recur.

Cheers,
Carlo

On 2011-04-26, at 11:29, Clive Slater wrote:

> 
> Spoke too soon Repairing Permissions is working
> 
> On 26/04/2011, at 10:41 AM, cm wrote:
> 
>> 
>> When you say there were no problems when you ran Tech Tools Pro, does that 
>> mean that your computer is currently running? If so take the opportunity to 
>> backup your data. Once you have the backup try to run Disk Utility again to 
>> repair file permissions and to verify the disk. Let us know how you get 
>> along.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Carlo
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On 26/04/2011, at 10:28, Clive Slater  wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Carlo
>>> 
>>> Computer froze, so I ran Disk Utility, received the failure notice and then 
>>> restarted using the install disk intending to run disk utilities from there 
>>> but received kernel panic. I have run Tech Tools Pro which has not come up 
>>> with any problems, computer appears to be running ok.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Clive
>>> On 26/04/2011, at 10:18 AM, cm wrote:
>>> 
 
 Hi Clive,
 
 It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what circumstances 
 did you start the re-install of OS X, was there a problem reading or 
 writing files or did you just want to upgrade?
 
 Cheers,
 Carlo
 
 
 On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:
 
> 
> Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE SYSTEM 
> VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and is having a 
> Kernel Panic when starting from install DVD 10.5.7. I saved the log file 
> but don't actually know what I am looking for, have tried to restart in 
> "single mode" but kernel panic there as well. Any suggestions
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clive
> 
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Re: Kernel Panic

[Clive Slater]

Spoke too soon Repairing Permissions is working

On 26/04/2011, at 10:41 AM, cm wrote:



When you say there were no problems when you ran Tech Tools Pro,  
does that mean that your computer is currently running? If so take  
the opportunity to backup your data. Once you have the backup try  
to run Disk Utility again to repair file permissions and to verify  
the disk. Let us know how you get along.


Cheers,
Carlo

Sent from my iPad

On 26/04/2011, at 10:28, Clive Slater  wrote:



Hi Carlo

Computer froze, so I ran Disk Utility, received the failure notice  
and then restarted using the install disk intending to run disk  
utilities from there but received kernel panic. I have run Tech  
Tools Pro which has not come up with any problems, computer  
appears to be running ok.


Regards

Clive
On 26/04/2011, at 10:18 AM, cm wrote:



Hi Clive,

It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what  
circumstances did you start the re-install of OS X, was there a  
problem reading or writing files or did you just want to upgrade?


Cheers,
Carlo


On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:



Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE  
SYSTEM VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and  
is having a Kernel Panic when starting from install DVD 10.5.7.  
I saved the log file but don't actually know what I am looking  
for, have tried to restart in "single mode" but kernel panic  
there as well. Any suggestions


Regards

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Re: Kernel Panic

[Clive Slater]

Yes, computer is running, data has been backed up, Disk Utility  
"Repair Disk" is greyed out, when you run Verify Disk you receive  
fore mentioned error message. Verify Permissions goes on without any  
result, Repair Permissions goes on without any result.


Cheers

Clive
On 26/04/2011, at 10:41 AM, cm wrote:



When you say there were no problems when you ran Tech Tools Pro,  
does that mean that your computer is currently running? If so take  
the opportunity to backup your data. Once you have the backup try  
to run Disk Utility again to repair file permissions and to verify  
the disk. Let us know how you get along.


Cheers,
Carlo

Sent from my iPad

On 26/04/2011, at 10:28, Clive Slater  wrote:



Hi Carlo

Computer froze, so I ran Disk Utility, received the failure notice  
and then restarted using the install disk intending to run disk  
utilities from there but received kernel panic. I have run Tech  
Tools Pro which has not come up with any problems, computer  
appears to be running ok.


Regards

Clive
On 26/04/2011, at 10:18 AM, cm wrote:



Hi Clive,

It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what  
circumstances did you start the re-install of OS X, was there a  
problem reading or writing files or did you just want to upgrade?


Cheers,
Carlo


On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:



Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE  
SYSTEM VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and  
is having a Kernel Panic when starting from install DVD 10.5.7.  
I saved the log file but don't actually know what I am looking  
for, have tried to restart in "single mode" but kernel panic  
there as well. Any suggestions


Regards

Clive



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Re: Possible scam -- Fwd: MAIL ABUSE 157387292

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 26/04/2011, at 10:39 AM, David Noel wrote:

> Hi All, the attached (one of several) looks like a scam, though I haven't 
> opened it. Any advice?
> 
> Cheers --
> 
> David Noel
> 2011 Apr 26
> 
> ==
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Hinz, Caroline SktnHR 
> Date: 26 April 2011 10:19
> Subject: MAIL ABUSE 157387292
> To: 
> 


Simple question: do you have any idea at all who Caroline Hinz might be, or d 
have any relationship or dealings with Saskatoon Health Region? If the answers 
to these questions is No, then it's highly probable that this email is the 
product of virus activity on her computer, or the computer of someone on her 
address list. Delete and forget. Nothing to see here.  

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.




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Re: Kernel Panic

[cm]

When you say there were no problems when you ran Tech Tools Pro, does that mean 
that your computer is currently running? If so take the opportunity to backup 
your data. Once you have the backup try to run Disk Utility again to repair 
file permissions and to verify the disk. Let us know how you get along.

Cheers,
Carlo

Sent from my iPad

On 26/04/2011, at 10:28, Clive Slater  wrote:

> 
> Hi Carlo
> 
> Computer froze, so I ran Disk Utility, received the failure notice and then 
> restarted using the install disk intending to run disk utilities from there 
> but received kernel panic. I have run Tech Tools Pro which has not come up 
> with any problems, computer appears to be running ok.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clive
> On 26/04/2011, at 10:18 AM, cm wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Clive,
>> 
>> It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what circumstances 
>> did you start the re-install of OS X, was there a problem reading or writing 
>> files or did you just want to upgrade?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Carlo
>> 
>> 
>> On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE SYSTEM 
>>> VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and is having a Kernel 
>>> Panic when starting from install DVD 10.5.7. I saved the log file but don't 
>>> actually know what I am looking for, have tried to restart in "single mode" 
>>> but kernel panic there as well. Any suggestions
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Clive
>>> 
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Re: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??

[Rob Davies]

Morning, 

Thank's Ronnie for the info for ejecting a thumb drive,correctly.

Reason for doing this is to empty all directories/folders including hidden 
directories/folders.

OS X has hidden folders those that are preceded by a dot hence .Trashes where 
those files appeared from.
Spotlight and other applications or Services utilise such folders also.

Viewable within terminal, by typing ls -a at prompt then drag icon at top of 
finder folder opened at said device. 
Looking something like this within terminal at prompt ls - a  /volumes/Lexar 
then enter which reveals all folders on drive, including . or ._. etc

So, unless Ronnie's procedures are followed you still have files in .Trashes or 
more, also this is what recovery programs and FSCK use to rebuild drives.

When viewing these devices within windows they will appear also with other 
appendices.

Cheers!
`RobD...

On 26Apr2011, at 6:40 am, Kevin wrote:

> I recently had the same problem with phantom photos appearing on a thumb 
> drive at Harvey Norman.  I had previously deleted all the files on the drive 
> and then loaded some pics I wanted to print.
> 
> The phantom pics didn't appear on the drive.
> 
> I was able to print the ones I wanted and when I returned home, formatted the 
> drive on a PC to Fat23.  That seemed to do the trick.  No more ghosties.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Good morning all
>> 
>> I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the 
>> correspondence on the Seagate external drive.   This query is very similar 
>> to mine I think, but maybe slightly different, so I have given mine a 
>> different heading.
>> 
>> I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I have gone 
>> basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) Windows onto mainly 
>> friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey 
>> Norman to copy and print photos.  (Obviously, about 5 years ago this became 
>> to and from my Mac, to their Windows or Macs).
>> 
>> Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not "quite 
>> right")  I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks with a batch of 
>> photos for printing, to learn that apparently because the formatting was 
>> done on a Mac, I could not copy the photos onto one of their machines.
>> 
>> So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the photos I 
>> wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully printed.
>> 
>> A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac and 
>> transferred them onto my Mac.  **This set of photo had been downloaded onto 
>> his Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a Windows PC).
>> 
>> Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick.  When it showed up 
>> empty in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including about 30 from the 
>> batch as in the above paragraph.
>> 
>> About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed.
>> 
>> When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded right up 
>> to the point where I had put my name, address and so on.  Very strange 
>> though, it said there were 500 odd photos.  Being distracted at the time 
>> because I was due to meet someone, I assumed I had downloaded more photos 
>> than I had realised, and just proceeded.
>> 
>> Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared "there has been a fatal 
>> error" and shut down.  The girl behind the counter did not know why and 
>> suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all went through (still 
>> showing over 500 photos though).
>> 
>> Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them out - yes 
>> there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the large batch 
>> downloaded from the DVD set, which had been deleted from the USB stick and 
>> which did not show up in Finder.  There were duplicates and triplicates of 
>> some of these.
>> 
>> So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from it.  It 
>> is on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin.  Before I 
>> deleted everything showing I checked and yes, it definitely only showed 121 
>> items.
>> 
>> In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only copying 
>> from my Mac onto other Macs?  I do not think I have formatted my USB sticks 
>> ever, certainly not for many years.
>> 
>> Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or vice 
>> versa?   I have done this in the past with no problems, though not recently.
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break.
>> 
>> Peta
>> 
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Possible scam -- Fwd: MAIL ABUSE 157387292

[David Noel]

Hi All, the attached (one of several) looks like a scam, though I haven't
opened it. Any advice?

Cheers --

David Noel
2011 Apr 26

==

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From: Hinz, Caroline SktnHR 
Date: 26 April 2011 10:19
Subject: MAIL ABUSE 157387292
To:


 Dear Mail User,
This message is from Web Mail-Upgrade-Team

CLICK 
HEREand
follow the instruction carefully


 Thanks

System Administrator center.



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Re: Kernel Panic

[Clive Slater]

Hi Carlo

Computer froze, so I ran Disk Utility, received the failure notice  
and then restarted using the install disk intending to run disk  
utilities from there but received kernel panic. I have run Tech Tools  
Pro which has not come up with any problems, computer appears to be  
running ok.


Regards

Clive
On 26/04/2011, at 10:18 AM, cm wrote:



Hi Clive,

It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what  
circumstances did you start the re-install of OS X, was there a  
problem reading or writing files or did you just want to upgrade?


Cheers,
Carlo


On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:



Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE  
SYSTEM VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and is  
having a Kernel Panic when starting from install DVD 10.5.7. I  
saved the log file but don't actually know what I am looking for,  
have tried to restart in "single mode" but kernel panic there as  
well. Any suggestions


Regards

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Fwd: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[David Noel]

Dohhh! ... It was the arrow... (creeps away in shame).

David / Apr 26

=

On 25 April 2011 16:35, Ronda Brown  wrote:

> Hmmm David,
>
> Normally deleting the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and restarting your Mac
> corrects the problem.
>
> Have you tried deleting both your User Finder preferences and User Sidebar
> preferences
> com.apple.finder.plist and
> com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
>
> Empty the Trash
> Restart you Mac
>
> Also have you repaired permissions lately. Wouldn’t hurt to do it anyway.
>
> Remember to drag and drop, not onto an icon, but into a
> space between icons.
>
> Silly question … but you do have the arrow next to ‘PLACES’ open?
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> On 25/04/2011, at 3:07 PM, David Noel wrote:
>
> -- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.
>
> -- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before.
> The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show
> that the folder had been tried.
>
> -- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer
> the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder
> sidebar still.
>
> -- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you
> the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks
> very much for the suggestions.
>
> Cheers --
>
> David / Apr 25
>
> ===
>
> On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:
>>
>> > -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which
>> has me baffled?
>> >
>> > -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items,
>> suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' I
>> have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up on
>> the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a blue
>> line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 'Add
>> to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
>> >
>> > -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Drag this preference file to the Trash.
>> Restart your Mac
>>
>>  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
>>
>> Then set your Finder Preferences.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
>> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
>> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
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Re: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[David Noel]

Dohhh!

On 25 April 2011 16:35, Ronda Brown  wrote:

> Hmmm David,
>
> Normally deleting the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and restarting your Mac
> corrects the problem.
>
> Have you tried deleting both your User Finder preferences and User Sidebar
> preferences
> com.apple.finder.plist and
> com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
>
> Empty the Trash
> Restart you Mac
>
> Also have you repaired permissions lately. Wouldn’t hurt to do it anyway.
>
> Remember to drag and drop, not onto an icon, but into a
> space between icons.
>
> Silly question … but you do have the arrow next to ‘PLACES’ open?
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> On 25/04/2011, at 3:07 PM, David Noel wrote:
>
> -- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.
>
> -- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before.
> The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show
> that the folder had been tried.
>
> -- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer
> the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder
> sidebar still.
>
> -- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you
> the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks
> very much for the suggestions.
>
> Cheers --
>
> David / Apr 25
>
> ===
>
> On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:
>>
>> > -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which
>> has me baffled?
>> >
>> > -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items,
>> suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' I
>> have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up on
>> the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a blue
>> line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 'Add
>> to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
>> >
>> > -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Drag this preference file to the Trash.
>> Restart your Mac
>>
>>  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
>>
>> Then set your Finder Preferences.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
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Re: Kernel Panic

[cm]

Hi Clive,

It sounds like it could be a hard drive failure. Under what circumstances did 
you start the re-install of OS X, was there a problem reading or writing files 
or did you just want to upgrade?

Cheers,
Carlo


On 2011-04-26, at 10:08, Clive Slater wrote:

> 
> Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE SYSTEM VERIFY 
> FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and is having a Kernel Panic 
> when starting from install DVD 10.5.7. I saved the log file but don't 
> actually know what I am looking for, have tried to restart in "single mode" 
> but kernel panic there as well. Any suggestions
> 
> Regards
> 
> Clive
> 
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Hi I have G5 Dual 2Ghz running 10.5.8, it is receiving a "FILE SYSTEM  
VERIFY FAILED OR REPAIRED FAILED" from Disk Utility and is having a  
Kernel Panic when starting from install DVD 10.5.7. I saved the log  
file but don't actually know what I am looking for, have tried to  
restart in "single mode" but kernel panic there as well. Any suggestions


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Re: Seagate external drive

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On 25/04/2011, at 11:52 PM, Maria Obiageli Chukwu-Ike wrote:

> Hi alex,
>My experience with the external hard drives is that the
> formatting is important. Macs can only read from a windows formatted
> hard drive but they cannot write to it. If you do want to use the hard
> drive as you normally use it in windows (I.e read from it and write to
> it) then you will need to format it on the Mac (as per the
> instructions provided by Roger)..however once this is done, you will
> not be able to use that external hard drive in a windows environment..
> Hope this helps
> 


It's important not to generalise too much about this. The Mac can read and 
write just fine to a Windows-formatted disk, as long as the disk is formatted 
as FAT 32, not NTFS. This has been the case for many years, even long before 
the arrival of Mac OS X. Alex's daughter's gift would have been formatted in 
NTFS format, which has been the default format for Windows XP (and now Windows 
7) for most of the last decade. 

Mac OS X can read NTFS disks but not write to them, but there are third party 
solutions for this, such as NTFS-3G and MacFuse, among several others. If 
preserving the data on the external drive is important, then installing one of 
these solutions on your Mac is necessary. 

If you want to be able to write to the disk but still use it on a Windows 
computer , the disk must be reformatted as FAT 32 (Disk Utility simply calls 
this "MS-DOS" but it's the same thing). 

If you're never going to use the drive on a Windows computer, simple reformat 
it as Journaled HFS+ and move on.

Bear in mind that no version of Windows can even recognise a Mac-formatted disk 
without pricey third-party help. If you attach a Mac-formatted disk to an 
unmodified Windows system, you will simply be invited to format the drive. Most 
Windows users I know regard this as a Mac problem. 

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

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[Ronda Brown]

Hi Peta & Kevin,

I’m currently on ‘a break’  for a couple of days but just quickly replying to 
your queries.
Peta, if you did NOT empty the trash on the computer after deleting the photos 
from the Flash Drive, they are not properly deleted.

To Delete Items from a Thumb Drive.
1. Double Click on the Thumb Drive to Open it.
2. Drag what you want to delete from it to the Trash
3. Empty the Trash BEFORE ejecting and disconnecting the Thumb Drive

To Eject a Thumb Drive
1.  Go To File > and choose File > Eject  ’x’
 or 
2. In the sidebar of a Finder window, click the Eject button next to the Thumb 
Drive’s name.
 or
3. Drag the item to the Trash icon in the Dock. (The Trash icon will change to 
“Eject”)

4. Disconnect the Thumb Drive from the USB Port

Thumb Drives / FlexDrives should be formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) using Disk Utility
They are then  Read / Write on Macs & Windows.

Cheers,
Ronni

On 26/04/2011, at 6:40 AM, Kevin wrote:

> I recently had the same problem with phantom photos appearing on a thumb 
> drive at Harvey Norman.  I had previously deleted all the files on the drive 
> and then loaded some pics I wanted to print.
> 
> The phantom pics didn't appear on the drive.
> 
> I was able to print the ones I wanted and when I returned home, formatted the 
> drive on a PC to Fat23.  That seemed to do the trick.  No more ghosties.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Good morning all
>> 
>> I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the 
>> correspondence on the Seagate external drive.   This query is very similar 
>> to mine I think, but maybe slightly different, so I have given mine a 
>> different heading.
>> 
>> I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I have gone 
>> basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) Windows onto mainly 
>> friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey 
>> Norman to copy and print photos.  (Obviously, about 5 years ago this became 
>> to and from my Mac, to their Windows or Macs).
>> 
>> Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not "quite 
>> right")  I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks with a batch of 
>> photos for printing, to learn that apparently because the formatting was 
>> done on a Mac, I could not copy the photos onto one of their machines.
>> 
>> So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the photos I 
>> wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully printed.
>> 
>> A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac and 
>> transferred them onto my Mac.  **This set of photo had been downloaded onto 
>> his Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a Windows PC).
>> 
>> Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick.  When it showed up 
>> empty in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including about 30 from the 
>> batch as in the above paragraph.
>> 
>> About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed.
>> 
>> When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded right up 
>> to the point where I had put my name, address and so on.  Very strange 
>> though, it said there were 500 odd photos.  Being distracted at the time 
>> because I was due to meet someone, I assumed I had downloaded more photos 
>> than I had realised, and just proceeded.
>> 
>> Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared "there has been a fatal 
>> error" and shut down.  The girl behind the counter did not know why and 
>> suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all went through (still 
>> showing over 500 photos though).
>> 
>> Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them out - yes 
>> there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the large batch 
>> downloaded from the DVD set, which had been deleted from the USB stick and 
>> which did not show up in Finder.  There were duplicates and triplicates of 
>> some of these.
>> 
>> So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from it.  It 
>> is on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin.  Before I 
>> deleted everything showing I checked and yes, it definitely only showed 121 
>> items.
>> 
>> In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only copying 
>> from my Mac onto other Macs?  I do not think I have formatted my USB sticks 
>> ever, certainly not for many years.
>> 
>> Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or vice 
>> versa?   I have done this in the past with no problems, though not recently.
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break.
>> 
>> Peta
>> 




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Re: USB sticks / drives / formatting ??

[Kevin]

I recently had the same problem with phantom photos appearing on a 
thumb drive at Harvey Norman.  I had previously deleted all the files 
on the drive and then loaded some pics I wanted to print.


The phantom pics didn't appear on the drive.

I was able to print the ones I wanted and when I returned home, 
formatted the drive on a PC to Fat23.  That seemed to do the trick. 
No more ghosties.



Regards

Kevin





Good morning all

I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the 
correspondence on the Seagate external drive.   This query is very 
similar to mine I think, but maybe slightly different, so I have 
given mine a different heading.


I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I 
have gone basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) 
Windows onto mainly friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or 
to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey Norman to copy and print photos. 
(Obviously, about 5 years ago this became to and from my Mac, to 
their Windows or Macs).


Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not 
"quite right")  I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks 
with a batch of photos for printing, to learn that apparently 
because the formatting was done on a Mac, I could not copy the 
photos onto one of their machines.


So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the 
photos I wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully 
printed.


A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac 
and transferred them onto my Mac.  **This set of photo had been 
downloaded onto his Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a 
Windows PC).


Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick.  When it 
showed up empty in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including 
about 30 from the batch as in the above paragraph.


About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed.

When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded 
right up to the point where I had put my name, address and so on. 
Very strange though, it said there were 500 odd photos.  Being 
distracted at the time because I was due to meet someone, I assumed 
I had downloaded more photos than I had realised, and just proceeded.


Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared "there has been 
a fatal error" and shut down.  The girl behind the counter did not 
know why and suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all 
went through (still showing over 500 photos though).


Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them 
out - yes there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the 
large batch downloaded from the DVD set, which had been deleted from 
the USB stick and which did not show up in Finder.  There were 
duplicates and triplicates of some of these.


So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from 
it.  It is on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin. 
Before I deleted everything showing I checked and yes, it 
definitely only showed 121 items.


In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only 
copying from my Mac onto other Macs?  I do not think I have 
formatted my USB sticks ever, certainly not for many years.


Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or 
vice versa?   I have done this in the past with no problems, though 
not recently.


Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break.

Peta




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[peta]

Good morning all

I came in to write my query, which is a little odd, and saw the correspondence 
on the Seagate external drive.   This query is very similar to mine I think, 
but maybe slightly different, so I have given mine a different heading.

I have carried my USB sticks with me for many years, everywhere I have gone 
basically, and quite often copied photos from my (then) Windows onto mainly 
friends/families Windows, and back to my PC or to (eg) Officeworks, Harvey 
Norman to copy and print photos.  (Obviously, about 5 years ago this became to 
and from my Mac, to their Windows or Macs).

Very recently (because I had a feeling that my USB stick was not "quite right") 
 I took my small external hard drive to Officeworks with a batch of photos for 
printing, to learn that apparently because the formatting was done on a Mac, I 
could not copy the photos onto one of their machines.

So I bought a new USB stick from Officeworks, came home, copied the photos I 
wanted onto this, and had the batch of photos successfully printed.

A few days later, I copied a batch of photos from my husband's Mac and 
transferred them onto my Mac.  **This set of photo had been downloaded onto his 
Mac by a DVD and had - I assume -come from a Windows PC).

Next I deleted that batch of photos from my USB stick.  When it showed up empty 
in Finder I copied 121 photos onto it, including about 30 from the batch as in 
the above paragraph.

About a week later I went back to Officeworks to have my 121 photos printed.

When I inserted my USB stick all appeared well and they downloaded right up to 
the point where I had put my name, address and so on.  Very strange though, it 
said there were 500 odd photos.  Being distracted at the time because I was due 
to meet someone, I assumed I had downloaded more photos than I had realised, 
and just proceeded.

Then the machine threw a big hissy fit and declared "there has been a fatal 
error" and shut down.  The girl behind the counter did not know why and 
suggested I use another machine, which I did, and all went through (still 
showing over 500 photos though).

Came the time to pick the photos and off I went home and laid them out - yes 
there were over 500 photos, nearly all of them from the large batch downloaded 
from the DVD set, which had been deleted from the USB stick and which did not 
show up in Finder.  There were duplicates and triplicates of some of these.

So I believed my USB stick was corrupt, and deleted everything from it.  It is 
on my desk now and I believe it should just hit the bin.  Before I deleted 
everything showing I checked and yes, it definitely only showed 121 items.

In the future then is it necessary to format USB sticks if I am only copying 
from my Mac onto other Macs?  I do not think I have formatted my USB sticks 
ever, certainly not for many years.

Is it going to be possible to copy photos from my Mac to a PC and/or vice 
versa?   I have done this in the past with no problems, though not recently.

Thanks for any suggestions, enjoy the rest of our little holiday break.

Peta



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[Rob Davies]

Morning,

When formatting make it FAT32 and it will read and write on all OS platforms. 
i.e WIN in all variants, Linux, UNIX, BSD variants and of course OS X.

And before we all start the NIX versions have to have kernel configured as 
thus, same as one can build an OS X kernel enabling NTFS read and write, I know 
it can read already. NTFS not advisable to trigger write though MS has strange 
hierarchal information which does not seem to transfer well. Same with Mac OS 
Extended in Win environment.

Sorry for transgressing, but if used purely in OS X I would suggest Mac OS X 
journaled a far superior and OS specific file format, journaled means drive, 
hence information can recover itself in a failed situation normally restart 
after power failure and others? (FSCK) google will learn invaluable 
information.
Do not panic normally one does not do this as OS takes care of for us these 
days???

While on suggestions utilise Firewire less likely loss of Data, and to fail 
although they do, but not as often with USB.

Cheers!
`RobD...

On 25Apr2011, at 11:52 pm, Maria Obiageli Chukwu-Ike wrote:

> 
> Hi alex,
>My experience with the external hard drives is that the
> formatting is important. Macs can only read from a windows formatted
> hard drive but they cannot write to it. If you do want to use the hard
> drive as you normally use it in windows (I.e read from it and write to
> it) then you will need to format it on the Mac (as per the
> instructions provided by Roger)..however once this is done, you will
> not be able to use that external hard drive in a windows environment..
> Hope this helps
> 
> On 4/25/11, rkor...@iinet.net.au  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Alex
>> 
>> I would assume its connected via USB?  Attach the drive to the Mac
>> 
>> (Will she need to use the drive on Windows in the future? if not then its
>> best to format the drive)
>> 
>> To do this go to the applications folder then open the utilities folder and
>> double click on the disk utility.app a window will
>> open and you should see the seagate drive in the lefthand column.  Select it
>> and click on the erase tab, the format should be
>> Mac OS Extended(Journaled)  Once this is done it should be fine to use :)
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
>> On Mon Apr 25 21:46 , Alex  sent:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello WAMUG friends,
>>> 
>>> my daughter, who recently bought a MacBook Pro after having a Windows
>>> laptop for some years, has been given a  USB 2.0 Seagate external
>>> drive (model name starts with an "E" - Expansion?).  Now the box does
>>> say that it requires a Windows OS & no mention of Mac compatibility.
>>> However,  my understanding was that Macs can see & access Windows-
>>> formatted disks, eg thumb drives, floppies in the old days,  etc.
>>> When she connected the drive, it mounted & we could see it & the
>>> contents of the drive (some system files, info files & .exe
>>> programme), but when she tried to copy files from the Mac to the
>>> drive, nothing happened.  When dragging the files across to the drive,
>>> all that happened was that you could see the file "ghosting" back to
>>> where it came from with no message or anything.
>>> 
>>> Can someone please explain whether it can be made accessible & how, or
>>> is this a lost cause?  Also, what has changed, considering the
>>> previously stated accessibility at least from the Mac perspective?
>>> 
>>> Cheers, & many thanks in advance for your assistance,
>>> 
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>> 
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Hi alex,
My experience with the external hard drives is that the
formatting is important. Macs can only read from a windows formatted
hard drive but they cannot write to it. If you do want to use the hard
drive as you normally use it in windows (I.e read from it and write to
it) then you will need to format it on the Mac (as per the
instructions provided by Roger)..however once this is done, you will
not be able to use that external hard drive in a windows environment..
Hope this helps

On 4/25/11, rkor...@iinet.net.au  wrote:
>
> Hi Alex
>
> I would assume its connected via USB?  Attach the drive to the Mac
>
> (Will she need to use the drive on Windows in the future? if not then its
> best to format the drive)
>
> To do this go to the applications folder then open the utilities folder and
> double click on the disk utility.app a window will
> open and you should see the seagate drive in the lefthand column.  Select it
> and click on the erase tab, the format should be
> Mac OS Extended(Journaled)  Once this is done it should be fine to use :)
>
> Roger
>
> On Mon Apr 25 21:46 , Alex  sent:
>
>>
>>Hello WAMUG friends,
>>
>>my daughter, who recently bought a MacBook Pro after having a Windows
>>laptop for some years, has been given a  USB 2.0 Seagate external
>>drive (model name starts with an "E" - Expansion?).  Now the box does
>>say that it requires a Windows OS & no mention of Mac compatibility.
>>However,  my understanding was that Macs can see & access Windows-
>>formatted disks, eg thumb drives, floppies in the old days,  etc.
>>When she connected the drive, it mounted & we could see it & the
>>contents of the drive (some system files, info files & .exe
>>programme), but when she tried to copy files from the Mac to the
>>drive, nothing happened.  When dragging the files across to the drive,
>>all that happened was that you could see the file "ghosting" back to
>>where it came from with no message or anything.
>>
>>Can someone please explain whether it can be made accessible & how, or
>>is this a lost cause?  Also, what has changed, considering the
>>previously stated accessibility at least from the Mac perspective?
>>
>>Cheers, & many thanks in advance for your assistance,
>>
>>Alex
>>
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Hi Alex

I would assume its connected via USB?  Attach the drive to the Mac

(Will she need to use the drive on Windows in the future? if not then its best 
to format the drive)

To do this go to the applications folder then open the utilities folder and 
double click on the disk utility.app a window will 
open and you should see the seagate drive in the lefthand column.  Select it 
and click on the erase tab, the format should be 
Mac OS Extended(Journaled)  Once this is done it should be fine to use :)

Roger

On Mon Apr 25 21:46 , Alex  sent:

>
>Hello WAMUG friends,
>
>my daughter, who recently bought a MacBook Pro after having a Windows  
>laptop for some years, has been given a  USB 2.0 Seagate external  
>drive (model name starts with an "E" - Expansion?).  Now the box does  
>say that it requires a Windows OS & no mention of Mac compatibility.   
>However,  my understanding was that Macs can see & access Windows- 
>formatted disks, eg thumb drives, floppies in the old days,  etc.   
>When she connected the drive, it mounted & we could see it & the  
>contents of the drive (some system files, info files & .exe  
>programme), but when she tried to copy files from the Mac to the  
>drive, nothing happened.  When dragging the files across to the drive,  
>all that happened was that you could see the file "ghosting" back to  
>where it came from with no message or anything.
>
>Can someone please explain whether it can be made accessible & how, or  
>is this a lost cause?  Also, what has changed, considering the  
>previously stated accessibility at least from the Mac perspective?
>
>Cheers, & many thanks in advance for your assistance,
>
>Alex
>
>
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[Alex]

Hello WAMUG friends,

my daughter, who recently bought a MacBook Pro after having a Windows  
laptop for some years, has been given a  USB 2.0 Seagate external  
drive (model name starts with an "E" - Expansion?).  Now the box does  
say that it requires a Windows OS & no mention of Mac compatibility.   
However,  my understanding was that Macs can see & access Windows- 
formatted disks, eg thumb drives, floppies in the old days,  etc.   
When she connected the drive, it mounted & we could see it & the  
contents of the drive (some system files, info files & .exe  
programme), but when she tried to copy files from the Mac to the  
drive, nothing happened.  When dragging the files across to the drive,  
all that happened was that you could see the file "ghosting" back to  
where it came from with no message or anything.


Can someone please explain whether it can be made accessible & how, or  
is this a lost cause?  Also, what has changed, considering the  
previously stated accessibility at least from the Mac perspective?


Cheers, & many thanks in advance for your assistance,

Alex



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Re: iTunes Artwork

[Adrian Skehan]

Problem solved.  The iTunes music folders were locked.


Regards,

Adrian
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On 25/04/2011, at 5:23 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:

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> Good afternoon,
> 
> I am unable to add artwork to music in iTunes.  The artwork panel has a 
> greyed sign in it which says Artwork Not Modifiable. I have searched for a 
> solution without success.  Any suggestion will be appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adrian
> adrianske...@me.com
> 
> 
> 
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watch BBC etc from outside UK

[Merv Bond]

So far my search on this topic has come up with only one application, 
Expat Shield. However, it is not for Mac. Has anyone achieved success at 
watching the BBC or itv online from Australia? BBC's iPlayer and itv 
Player can only be used if you are in the UK.

Hope you are all home safe and sound following the long weekend.
Merv
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iTunes Artwork

[Adrian Skehan]

Good afternoon,

I am unable to add artwork to music in iTunes.  The artwork panel has a greyed 
sign in it which says Artwork Not Modifiable. I have searched for a solution 
without success.  Any suggestion will be appreciated.




Regards,

Adrian
adrianske...@me.com




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Re: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[Ronda Brown]

Hmmm David,

Normally deleting the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and restarting your Mac 
corrects the problem.

Have you tried deleting both your User Finder preferences and User Sidebar 
preferences 
com.apple.finder.plist and
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

Empty the Trash
Restart you Mac

Also have you repaired permissions lately. Wouldn’t hurt to do it anyway.

Remember to drag and drop, not onto an icon, but into a space between icons.

Silly question … but you do have the arrow next to ‘PLACES’ open?

Cheers,
Ronni

On 25/04/2011, at 3:07 PM, David Noel wrote:

> -- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.
> 
> -- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before. 
> The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show 
> that the folder had been tried. 
> 
> -- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer 
> the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder 
> sidebar still.
> 
> -- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you the 
> com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks very 
> much for the suggestions.
> 
> Cheers --
> 
> David / Apr 25
> 
> ===
> 
> On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:
> 
> > -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which 
> > has me baffled?
> >
> > -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items, 
> > suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' 
> > I have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up 
> > on the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a 
> > blue line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 
> > 'Add to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
> >
> > -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Drag this preference file to the Trash.
> Restart your Mac
> 
>  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
> 
> Then set your Finder Preferences.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
> 
> OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard
> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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Re: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[David Noel]

-- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.

-- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before.
The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show
that the folder had been tried.

-- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer
the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder
sidebar still.

-- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you
the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks
very much for the suggestions.

Cheers --

David / Apr 25

===

On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown  wrote:

>
>
> On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:
>
> > -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which
> has me baffled?
> >
> > -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items,
> suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' I
> have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up on
> the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a blue
> line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 'Add
> to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
> >
> > -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
>
> Hi David,
>
> Drag this preference file to the Trash.
> Restart your Mac
>
>  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
>
> Then set your Finder Preferences.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
>
> OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard
> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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