Re: Finder fail

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 29/10/2010, at 2:16 PM, thefrogs wrote:

> 
> I have a back up drive that houses my time machine that un-mounts when I try 
> to access file within. It is not every time but it does happen frequently. 
> Sometimes it quits the finder as well. I have rebuilt fixed prefs started up 
> logged out. Every time I leave the mac to sleep and then awaken it the backup 
> disappears and I get the removal message box come up.
> 10.6.4 on 24in iMac
> any thoughts?
> tom samson
> 
> 

Is this drive still under warranty? If so, take advantage of that now, 
otherwise just get a new drive. This unit is on its way out, and it's only a 
matter of time before you find it won't mount at all. It's most likely a 
problem with the hard drive's circuit board, but in any case a dead drive is a 
dead drive, and if it's only dying it's as good as dead. If you can open the 
case you should be able simply to replace the drive itself.
 

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Re: Finder fail

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Tom,

Have you tried using Disk Utility to "Repair Disk" of the external Time Machine 
Drive?
Disk Utility > Repair Drive

If Disk Utility finds any errors & fixes them, run it again, until it doesn't 
find any errors.

How are you entering Time Machine  and "Accessing the files" ?
What are you trying to do with the file … 'Restore' it?

Is this the Time Machine Drive you did a 'System Restore' from yesterday?

Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)




On 29/10/2010, at 2:56 PM, Andrew McColl wrote:

> 
> Time for a new drive :)
> 
> Quoting thefrogs :
> 
>> 
>> I have a back up drive that houses my time machine that un-mounts when I try 
>> to access file within. It is not every time but it does happen frequently. 
>> Sometimes it quits the finder as well. I have rebuilt fixed prefs started up 
>> logged out. Every time I leave the mac to sleep and then awaken it the 
>> backup disappears and I get the removal message box come up.
>> 10.6.4 on 24in iMac
>> any thoughts?
>> tom samson
>> 






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Re: Finder fail

[Andrew McColl]

Time for a new drive :)

Quoting thefrogs :



I have a back up drive that houses my time machine that un-mounts  
when I try to access file within. It is not every time but it does  
happen frequently. Sometimes it quits the finder as well. I have  
rebuilt fixed prefs started up logged out. Every time I leave the  
mac to sleep and then awaken it the backup disappears and I get the  
removal message box come up.

10.6.4 on 24in iMac
any thoughts?
tom samson




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Re: Finder fail

[James / Hans Kunz]

does you external drive has it's own power supply?? power drops can  
cause this

James
On 29/10/2010, at 14:16, thefrogs wrote:



I have a back up drive that houses my time machine that un-mounts  
when I try to access file within. It is not every time but it does  
happen frequently. Sometimes it quits the finder as well. I have  
rebuilt fixed prefs started up logged out. Every time I leave the  
mac to sleep and then awaken it the backup disappears and I get the  
removal message box come up.

10.6.4 on 24in iMac
any thoughts?
tom samson




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Finder fail

[thefrogs]

I have a back up drive that houses my time machine that un-mounts when I try to 
access file within. It is not every time but it does happen frequently. 
Sometimes it quits the finder as well. I have rebuilt fixed prefs started up 
logged out. Every time I leave the mac to sleep and then awaken it the backup 
disappears and I get the removal message box come up.
10.6.4 on 24in iMac
any thoughts?
tom samson




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