Thanks Tom. Based on the long report I got when I ran disk utility,
it appears that several program files are indeed scrambled. My new
external drives arrive tomorrow and as soon as I do a final back-up
of the laptop, I'll try the fixes you suggested.
On 26 May 2009, at 20:08, t.piwowar wro
On May 26, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Julie Kubal wrote:
First Aid Failure: Disk Utility stopped verifying "McIntosh HD"
because the following error was encountered: The underlying task
reported failure on exit.
Looks like you have disk drive problems. If you are lucky a quick fix
may make it all r
I'm running Max OSX v10.4.11
I ran Disk Utility and got a long message that ended with:
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Then I get another pop-up message that my DiskManagement Tool
You should do the general routine maintenance on the computer in case it
is a file corruption or permissions problem (Before you start you should
backup your data just in case the situation gets worse) .
To look for/ fix file corruption, run Disk Utility which is on your
startup disk and in th
Well, after all that talk about choosing a new Mac Book Pro, I
started getting some scary error messages on my old PowerBook G4
(which is still my only computer). Several applications just crashed
and when I tried to relaunch them, I got a pop-up message
"Application Launch Failure: The app
