Re: Strange new error

2011-11-17 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 18/11/2011 9:48am, Gchorn wrote: Is hard drive corruption like this a common occurrence, and can it be avoided? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-disk_failure http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en//papers/disk_failures.pdf ymmv mike -- You

Re: Strange new error

2011-11-17 Thread Gchorn
You were absolutely right. I used the built-in disk utility for OSX to verify the drive and it was corrupt. I then tried to use said utility to repair the disk but it couldn't, and recommended a reformat instead. Yikes. Was it fate that this happened literally a day after I started using Time Ma

Re: Strange new error

2011-11-16 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 17/11/2011 12:03pm, Gchorn wrote: I'm sorry, it's not totally clear to me what you mean by "trashed disk." If I use a disk utility, what am I looking for? Some sort of corruption of the actual hard drive? Are you saying my hard drive itself might be compromised and need replacement? I think

Re: Strange new error

2011-11-16 Thread Gchorn
I'm sorry, it's not totally clear to me what you mean by "trashed disk." If I use a disk utility, what am I looking for? Some sort of corruption of the actual hard drive? Are you saying my hard drive itself might be compromised and need replacement? Thanks, Guillaume -- You received this mess

Re: Strange new error

2011-11-16 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 17/11/2011 9:55am, Gchorn wrote: Weird, when I navigate to that folder, it hangs as though it's having to load up a ton of files, and then after a lengthy pause it shows 0 items. I don't know how I could have erased the contents of this folder as I have never opened it (or why it's hanging ev

Re: Strange new error

2011-11-16 Thread Gchorn
Weird, when I navigate to that folder, it hangs as though it's having to load up a ton of files, and then after a lengthy pause it shows 0 items. I don't know how I could have erased the contents of this folder as I have never opened it (or why it's hanging every time I try to open it). The only

Re: Strange new error

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Gchorn wrote: > Hi All, > > So I haven't used Django in a while (like three months), and when I > tried firing up a project in dev from Terminal (in OSX) today using > the "python manage.py runserver" command, I got the following > Traceback: > >  File "manage.py",

Strange new error

2011-11-16 Thread Gchorn
Hi All, So I haven't used Django in a while (like three months), and when I tried firing up a project in dev from Terminal (in OSX) today using the "python manage.py runserver" command, I got the following Traceback: File "manage.py", line 14, in execute_manager(settings) File "/Library/