Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-02-02 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17-01-2012 16:02, Bill ha scritto: The WD (My Book Essential) that I have been using for backups (via Time Machine on 10.5.8, and 10.4.11) now refuses to mount. AFAIK, some WD external drives have been known for having issues with Macs. You might do some Google research, but perhaps

Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-02-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Bill wrote: Hello all, The WD (My Book Essential) that I have been using for backups (via Time Machine on 10.5.8, and 10.4.11) now refuses to mount. I have tried everything to get it to show up on the Desktop under 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 but to no avail. Can

Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Dan wrote: OTOH, Time Machine is known to shoot itself in the head quite often. It corrupts its own backup volumes, sometimes to the point they won't even mount. This is why we consider TM to be a cute hourly incremental system and recommend using CCC or

Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-01-29 Thread Bill
Hello all, The WD (My Book Essential) that I have been using for backups (via Time Machine on 10.5.8, and 10.4.11) now refuses to mount. I have tried everything to get it to show up on the Desktop under 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 but to no avail. Can someone recommend a reliable USB Hard Drive that I

Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-01-29 Thread Dan
At 7:02 AM -0800 1/17/2012, Bill wrote: [eliminated the goto by moving this stuff to the top] Quicksilver G4, Two internal HDs, Leopard, Tiger, and OS 9. The WD (My Book Essential) that I have been using for backups (via Time Machine on 10.5.8, and 10.4.11) now refuses to mount. I have tried