Re: finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Gilland
put the dot in there before the star. If you don't, you're gonna wipe the entire drive! Ouch! Chris. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 11:11 AM Subject: Re: finder crashes when opening ext

Re: finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Just a possible typo or clarification with your original post, did you try VO-f2-f2 to bring up the Window Chooser to possibly bring focus to that dialog? I'm wondering if there are any firmware upgrades for that HD. I've had issues with WD drives in the past that were addressed by firmwar

Re: finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-21 Thread Jürgen Fleger
're doing everything I would have done with one suggestion. Have you gone > into Disk Utility and tried to repair/verify the disk, and its permissions? > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Paul Erkens" > To: > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 7:58 AM &g

Re: finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Gilland
Paul, You're doing everything I would have done with one suggestion. Have you gone into Disk Utility and tried to repair/verify the disk, and its permissions? Chris. - Original Message - From: "Paul Erkens" To: Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 7:58 AM Subject: find

finder crashes when opening external disk

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear listers, I have a Western Digital 1tb drive attached to my mac. Its file system is mac os extended, journaled, so that should all be fine. However, when I go to this drive in finder, by simply hitting command down arrow on its volume icon on the desktop, finder crashes. Voiceover says I'm