Re: Hard Drive.

2018-10-28 Thread Anthony (Tony) Francis
erent cable > > 2.Does the external hard drive show in Disk Utility? > If you see the external hard drive in Disk Utility, check underneath it for a > volume. > If it is there click on it and select Mount. If your Mac has already mounted > the drive the option Unmount will be di

Re: Hard Drive.

2018-10-21 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Tony, 1. Have you checked the cable is firming into the USB port or whatever connection your using… try a different port? Try a different cable 2.Does the external hard drive show in Disk Utility? If you see the external hard drive in Disk Utility, check underneath it for a volume. If it is

Re: Hard Drive.

2018-10-21 Thread Anthony (Tony) Francis
Hi all I have just had a Hard Drive go rogue on me, I turned on the power to it connected it to the Computer, the icon appeared on the desktop remained for a few seconds then disappeared, I now have a hard drive that is on but I cannot get it to open. Is there anyway that I can circumnavigate

Re: Hard drive

2018-04-11 Thread Severin Crisp
er of articles about this but I haven’t read any of them ;o) > > > Cheers > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: n...@possumology.com > From: on behalf of Severin > Crisp > Reply-To: WAMUG > Date: W

Re: Hard drive

2018-04-11 Thread Neil Houghton
: Wednesday, 11 April 2018 at 16:56 To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Hard drive Many thanks for your full response. I guess one of my worries how the bits on my clone(s) of the fusion drive can be just pushed around like ordinary Finder bits, with the obvious restrictions of course. I have a bit of

Re: Hard drive

2018-04-11 Thread Severin Crisp
Apr 2018, at 16:26, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Hi Severin, > > I just fitted a 250GB SSD and a 3TB hard drive to my late 2009 i7 iMac (along > with upping the RAM to 24GB). > > I was considering setting up a fusion drive but, as for yourself, for a > variety of reason

Re: Hard drive

2018-04-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, I just fitted a 250GB SSD and a 3TB hard drive to my late 2009 i7 iMac (along with upping the RAM to 24GB). I was considering setting up a fusion drive but, as for yourself, for a variety of reasons I decided not to. Primary reason was that a fusion setup would only allow 1

Hard drive

2018-04-10 Thread Severin Crisp
I have an iMac with a 1.5T hard drive made up of a 1T conventional drive and a 500GB Samsung SSD. For a variety of reasons I am looking to split this up to a 500GB SSD system drive and the remainder on the 1T drive. I am wondering how to achieve this and need informed advice. I make a daily

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-10-02 Thread Ronni Brown
n your iPad and then open it >>>>>>> later on your Mac. In many cases, you can also work with it on the >>>>>>> iCloud.com <https://www.icloud.com/> Web site. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Apple’s iCloud Drive

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-10-02 Thread Graham Rabe
evices so they’re always up to date. >>>>>> == >>>>>> Re: Sierra ——— macOS Sierra 10.12: >>>>>> I have been running macOS Sierra 10.12 successfully on both my MacBook >>>>>> Pro and MacBook Air, without any pr

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-10-02 Thread Ronni Brown
gt;>>> Pro and MacBook Air, without any problems at all. >>>>> But - I did follow my normal safety ‘Prepare' before upgrading any major >>>>> version of OS X. >>>>> I updated all applications that had Sierra updates, did CCC bootable >>&g

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-10-01 Thread Michael Hawkins
t; >>>>>>> Apple’s iCloud Drive stores your files in the cloud, making it easy to >>>>>>> access them on any of your Apple devices (or a Windows PC)—so long as >>>>>>> the device has a fast enough Internet connection. >>>&

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-10-01 Thread Michael Hawkins
>>>>>>> Apple’s iCloud Drive stores your files in the cloud, making it easy to >>>>>>> access them on any of your Apple devices (or a Windows PC)—so long as >>>>>>> the device has a fast enough Internet connection. >>>>>>

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-10-01 Thread Graham Rabe
t; iCloud Drive syncs them across your devices so they’re always up to date. >>>>>> == >>>>>> Re: Sierra ——— macOS Sierra 10.12: >>>>>> I have been running macOS Sierra 10.12 successfully on both my MacBook >>>>>> Pro a

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
r >>>>> version of OS X. >>>>> I updated all applications that had Sierra updates, did CCC bootable >>>>> backups / Time Machine as in my Post to WAMUG members 23 Sept. 2016 at >>>>> 8:15am - Subject: Sierra >>>>> >>

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-30 Thread Graham Rabe
can run Sierra. >>>> 2. BACKUP! - BACKUP! >>>> 3. Make sure key software is up to date, and remove clutter that could >>>> interfere with the upgrade. >>>> 4. Decide which upgrade strategy is best for you >>>> etc etc etc as per my previou

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Ronni Brown
>> extremely useful is ‘Handoff’ >>> "Use Handoff to move seamlessly between your Apple devices. For instance, >>> say you start to write an email message on your Mac and then have to rush >>> out the door for work. While you wait at the train station, you can finish

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Rabe
gt; Keynote, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, Numbers, Pages, Reminders, Safari, and >> some third-party apps in Sierra and iOS 10” >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >&

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Rabe
aps, Messages, Notes, Numbers, Pages, Reminders, Safari, and > some third-party apps in Sierra and iOS 10” > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-b

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Ronda Brown
acts, >> Keynote, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, Numbers, Pages, Reminders, Safari, and >> some third-party apps in Sierra and iOS 10” >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost t

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Hawkins
n using Calendar, Contacts, > Keynote, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, Numbers, Pages, Reminders, Safari, and > some third-party apps in Sierra and iOS 10” > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz &

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Ronni Brown
d iOS 10” Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage macOS Sierra 10.12 > On 29 Sep. 2016, at 1:18 pm, Graham Rabe wrote: > > I’ve upgraded to Sierra and all of my data i

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Hawkins
gt;>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On 29 Sep. 2016, at 1:18 pm, Graham Rabe >>> <mailto:gra...@rabe.com.au>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I’ve upgraded to Sierra and all of my data in my previous “Doc

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Rabe
t;>> And how do you fund your broadband connection? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 29 Sep. 2016, at 1:18 pm, Graham Rabe >> <mailto:gra...@rabe.com.au>> wrote: >>> >>>> I’ve upgraded to Sierra and all of my

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Hawkins
gt; >> And how do you fund your broadband connection? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 29 Sep. 2016, at 1:18 pm, Graham Rabe wrote: >>> >>> I’ve upgraded to Sierra and all of my data in my previous “Documents” >>> folder previously on my

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-28 Thread Graham Rabe
pgraded to Sierra and all of my data in my previous “Documents” folder >> previously on my hard drive (in Finder under Documents”) is now only >> available in iCloud (where there is now a “Documents” folder). There is no >> longer a “Documents” folder listed anywhere on my hard

Re: macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-28 Thread Michael Hawkins
And how do you fund your broadband connection? Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Sep. 2016, at 1:18 pm, Graham Rabe wrote: > > I’ve upgraded to Sierra and all of my data in my previous “Documents” folder > previously on my hard drive (in Finder under Documents”) is now only > avai

macOS Sierra - iCloud - "Documents" folder on hard drive

2016-09-28 Thread Graham Rabe
I’ve upgraded to Sierra and all of my data in my previous “Documents” folder previously on my hard drive (in Finder under Documents”) is now only available in iCloud (where there is now a “Documents” folder). There is no longer a “Documents” folder listed anywhere on my hard drive. I’ve gone

Re: Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-29 Thread Brian Risbey
BACKUP! just in case) 2. Then delete the Data_Rebuild folders 3. Open Mail and check all is ok. But you do need to clear off some GBs of files from your hard drive, as I also need to on my MacBook Air which only has 90GB free. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core

Re: Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-29 Thread Ronni Brown
Mail first (I take it you have a current BACKUP! just in case) 2. Then delete the Data_Rebuild folders 3. Open Mail and check all is ok. But you do need to clear off some GBs of files from your hard drive, as I also need to on my MacBook Air which only has 90GB free. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch M

Re: Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-21 Thread Brian RISBEY
Hi Ronni, at work at the moment will check these tonight. Thank for checking back. Brian Risbey 🌊🏊 On 21 Jul 2016, at 13:09, Ronda Brown wrote: Has that sorted your problem Brian? Where did you see the Data_Rebuild files? And do you still have these Data_Rebuild files? Cheers, Ronni Sent

Re: Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-20 Thread Ronda Brown
Has that sorted your problem Brian? Where did you see the Data_Rebuild files? And do you still have these Data_Rebuild files? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 21 Jul 2016, at 12:44 PM, Brian RISBEY wrote: > > Oh thank you Ronni, some of those are now on my list! > > Brian Risbey

Re: Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-20 Thread Brian RISBEY
Oh thank you Ronni, some of those are now on my list! Brian Risbey 🌊🏊 On 21 Jul 2016, at 07:42, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Brian, Are you using Apple Mail version 9.3 El Capitan? If so a couple of things to check: 1. You have ‘emptied the trash folder’? Note: Deleting a message in Mail or dele

Re: Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-20 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Brian, Are you using Apple Mail version 9.3 El Capitan? If so a couple of things to check: 1. You have ‘emptied the trash folder’? Note: Deleting a message in Mail or deleting a folder in the Finder merely puts the respective item in the Trash but does not actually delete it. You then have

Full Hard Drive & Mail

2016-07-20 Thread Brian Risbey
Hi All My 1 TB Solid State Drive is 95% full, time for some pruning… I am looking at file sizes and noticed that the Mail Folder inside Library is 77.96GB!, I just went through and removed lots of redundant emails, and I noticed files titled: Data 65GB Data_Rebuild size 32GB Data_Rebuild

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-19 Thread Rod Blitvich
the external HD has some file corruption. > > Have you tried repairing the external drive using Disk Utility in OS X > Recovery HD partition? > > Restart the computer and hold the Command-R keys until you see the Apple > symbol. > Once in Recovery HD - OS X Utilities select

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-18 Thread Ronni Brown
Utility - select the hard drive that reported the error, click the “First Aid” tab, and then click on “Repair Disk” If no success in Recovery HD Disk Utility, do you have Disk Warrior ? Disk Warrior ‘might’ be able to repair the external drive if Recovery HD Disk Utility can’t. If all above

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-18 Thread Rod Blitvich
t.au > On 17 Jun 2016, at 2:50 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: > > >> On 14 Jun 2016, at 7:41 PM, Rod Blitvich > <mailto:rb...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: >> >> Hi WAMUGers >> My son has a portable hard drive that is not functioning all of a sudden. >> Disk

Re: Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-16 Thread Ronni Brown
> On 14 Jun 2016, at 7:41 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: > > Hi WAMUGers > My son has a portable hard drive that is not functioning all of a sudden. > Disk First Aid reports a problem. “unable to unmount volume for repair" > Amy suggestions please? Especially recovering the

Portable Hard Drive failure

2016-06-14 Thread Rod Blitvich
Hi WAMUGers My son has a portable hard drive that is not functioning all of a sudden. Disk First Aid reports a problem. “unable to unmount volume for repair" Amy suggestions please? Especially recovering the data. ta Rod Rod Blitvich - Amy &

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-07 Thread Stephen Chape
Thank you Neil. I will be visiting someone tomorrow who has a Mac using Mountain Lion. So intend to take the drive with me. > On 7 May 2016, at 7:16 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Hi Stephen, Hi Ronni, > > Given your situation Stephen – 2 different discs, 2 different computers but a > common fa

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-07 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Stephen, Hi Ronni, Given your situation Stephen ­ 2 different discs, 2 different computers but a common factor is upgrade to El Capitan, which is known to have some issues with external drives ­ then I would be considering/hoping that there might not be any actual problem with the Iomega drive(

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Stephen, It was a long shot, I didn’t really think it would be the cause of the problem. Do not attempt any more repairs on the drive if you intend to use data recovery software for fear of overwriting data or causing more damage. I have Prosoft Data Rescue 4.app version 4.2.1 and its USB Thu

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Alan Smith
I moved the external drive to my Airport >> Extreme base station, which has a USB port of its own, and I was able to >> access it via WiFi in Finder. > >> Subsequent to that, I moved the external drive back to the USB port on my >> iMac, and voila, it finally appeared on

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Neil Houghton
g it to the Airport Extreme to access it wirelessly had > anything to do with it, but I thought I'd post this, in case it helps someone > else. Do know, at least, that you can access your external hard drive data via > WiFi if you really need to get to it. This could also indica

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi Ronni, We are certain that this is not the case because both are failing to mount. And neither were encrypting at the time of the Dubai El Capitan update. In fact one was in my safe in Perth. Any combination of either HD Circumstances point to an issue with these Iomega drives resulting from the

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Stephen Chape
Ahhh …interesting ! Thank you Ronni. I have cc’d David with your reply. Looks like we may be initialising the disks again and doing a new backup from square one ! > On 6 May 2016, at 4:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > Just a thought... " > "The disk you inserted was not readable

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stephen, Just a thought... " "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." I read somewhere about this happening to a guy and he finally worked out while it happened and was able to correct it. I kept a note about it... The solution to this person's encrypted drive not readable i

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-06 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi Peter and thank you. He needs to encrypt the HD’s because he is an Emirates Captain and sometimes carries one of them with him to different countries around the world. The HD also carries some data that may be privy only to Senior Emirates Staff. That is apparently the reason for the encrypti

Re: Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-05 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
> On 5 May 2016, at 10:37 AM, Stephen Chape wrote: > > Hi folks, > > My step son lives in Dubai and each time he visits he brings his HD for me to > swap with the one in my safe. > It contains an encrypted SuperDuper backup. > He has two of these and swaps them over on each visit. > > A few d

Iomega External Hard Drive not responding

2016-05-04 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, My step son lives in Dubai and each time he visits he brings his HD for me to swap with the one in my safe. It contains an encrypted SuperDuper backup. He has two of these and swaps them over on each visit. A few days ago he brought it over as usual, but told me it seemed to have died

Re: Noisy hard drive fan following replacement

2014-10-02 Thread Daniel Kerr
isseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 03/10/2014, at 12:54 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > Since the 1Tb (Original) Hard Drive in my iMac was getting rather full and my > computer was getting slower and slower as a result, I decided to replace it

Noisy hard drive fan following replacement

2014-10-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
Since the 1Tb (Original) Hard Drive in my iMac was getting rather full and my computer was getting slower and slower as a result, I decided to replace it with a nice new 3Tb one rather than face the laborious process of doing the "weeding", ie, painstakingly deciding what to discard,

Re: Hard Drive image on desktop ?

2014-09-14 Thread Stephen Chape
hould be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permissi

Re: Hard Drive image on desktop ?

2014-09-14 Thread Daniel Kerr
4/09/2014, at 5:23 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > Hi folks, > > Ever since I have used a Mac the Hard Drive icon has sat in the top right of > my screen. > Recently I began to wonder if it needs to be there. > I have recently noticed other iMacs that do not have the HD icon on the &

Hard Drive image on desktop ?

2014-09-14 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, Ever since I have used a Mac the Hard Drive icon has sat in the top right of my screen. Recently I began to wonder if it needs to be there. I have recently noticed other iMacs that do not have the HD icon on the desktop. This might sound odd, but I have just always assumed it has to be

"Western Digital warns external hard drive customers over Mavericks Data Loss"

2013-10-31 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi All For those running Mavericks with Western Digital drives, I just thought this article might be worth a read,…"just in case"…. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/31/western-digital-warns-external-hard-drive-customers-over-mavericks-data-loss/ (Mostly if you're using some of

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-18 Thread Stephen Chape
gt; However I might investigate plugging the drive into my new modem router. >> It has 2 USB ports. > > I don't think that will work. In order to support Network-based Time Machine, > a server must support the latest version AFP (Apple Filing Protocol). > > Some Non-A

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-17 Thread Ronda Brown
ink that will work. In order to support Network-based Time Machine, a server must support the latest version AFP (Apple Filing Protocol). Some Non-Apple Modem/Routers - the Netgear N750 DGND4000 with a connected USB Hard Drive is compatible with Time Machine. Time Capsule is the recommendation by

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-17 Thread Stephen Chape
gt; As you have not answered my question, I do not know what WD Portable External > Hard Drive model you are using... > > But we seem to have come to the conclusion the problem is happening when the > iMac goes to sleep. > And that the Firmware Upgrade you have downloaded

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-17 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Stephen, I have assumed that you formatted the external drive correctly for Time Machine -Format: 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' and that the Partition Map Scheme is 'GUID Partition Table'. As you have not answered my question, I do not know what WD Portable External

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-17 Thread Stephen Chape
external connected by USB of FW? >>>>> >>>>> First thing to check go into the "Energy Saver" preference pane in System >>>>> Preferences. >>>>> Check to see if you have enabled the item: "Put Hard Disk(s) to sleep >&

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-16 Thread Ronda Brown
;Put Hard Disk(s) to sleep when >>>> possible." >>>> If it is enabled, DISABLE it. >>>> This item is enabled by default but it is inappropriate for Time Machine >>>> use, so it should be disabled. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >&g

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-16 Thread Stephen Chape
>>> Check to see if you have enabled the item: "Put Hard Disk(s) to sleep when >>> possible." >>> If it is enabled, DISABLE it. >>> This item is enabled by default but it is inappropriate for Time Machine >>> use, so it should be disable

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-15 Thread Ronda Brown
em is enabled by default but it is inappropriate for Time Machine >> use, so it should be disabled. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >> >> On 15/08/2013, at 5:20 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >&g

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-15 Thread Stephen Chape
gt; > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 15/08/2013, at 5:20 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> About a week ago I installed a 1TB WD Portable Hard Drive to use as my Time >> Machine. >> It has worked fine except for one point. >&g

Re: Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-15 Thread Ronda Brown
d, DISABLE it. This item is enabled by default but it is inappropriate for Time Machine use, so it should be disabled. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 15/08/2013, at 5:20 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > Hi folks, > > About a week ago I installed a 1TB WD Portable Hard Drive

Time Machine Hard Drive unmounting by itself ?

2013-08-15 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, About a week ago I installed a 1TB WD Portable Hard Drive to use as my Time Machine. It has worked fine except for one point. Every so often I return to my iMac after a few hours away to find a message that I have unplugged the hard drive without ejecting it. I have NOT unplugged it

Re: iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program

2012-11-06 Thread Rick Armstrong
Thanks Robert, Yes I am close to Joondalup, so I will take it there and possibly get the 2TB. Rick. On 07/11/2012, at 1:27 PM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote: > Hello Rick. The Hard drive in my iMac started playing up about 1 month before > the Apple "Revelation" I took it in

Re: iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program

2012-11-06 Thread Robert Miller-Eves
Hello Rick. The Hard drive in my iMac started playing up about 1 month before the Apple "Revelation" I took it in to Macworx up in Joondalup and they replaced it on the spot! No charge for the replacement 'cos I was within warranty, but for an extra few bucks they replaced it wit

Re: iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program

2012-11-06 Thread Adrian Skehan
in and it is eligible. > The last thing I want to do is bring the iMac in for a hard drive > replacement. The words "may fail" is not encouraging. > Has anyone had experience and how long they would take. > Thanks, Rick > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group

iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program

2012-11-06 Thread Rick Armstrong
Has anyone checked this out and how important is this, I have put my serial number in and it is eligible. The last thing I want to do is bring the iMac in for a hard drive replacement. The words "may fail" is not encouraging. Has anyone had experience and how long they would take. Th

Re: Hard drive confusion

2012-06-04 Thread Rosie Cable
ning out the door. > > As Ronni has mentioned it is possible to use both drives as the > boot drive, though to get the most out of it, you'd want the SSD > drive as the boot drive and the larger drive as your "storage" > drive. This way you get the access speed of your

Re: Hard drive confusion

2012-06-02 Thread Daniel Kerr
ccess speed of your SSD and the size of the standard Hard Drive. There are a few ways to do it (as I've done both for clients). You can either start from a clean install of OSX. Migrate across to the SSD just the Applications, and "most" of your user account data. (If you want

Re: Hard drive confusion

2012-06-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Rosie, Just a quick reply as I'm rushing out for awhile. Hopefully one of the Tech people will enlarge on this for you. Did you purchase from the Apple Store online, or a local supplier? The new iMacs with SSD Drive & Serial ATA Hard Drive; Apple specifically states: "if

Hard drive confusion

2012-06-02 Thread Rosie Cable
Hi fellow WAMUG members I'm hoping someone may have some suggestions to assist in my current Mac dramas. I have been trying to set up my new iMac, which was delivered with Lion on the hard drive, ready to install on initial startup. I was able to install Lion with no problems, so I

Fwd: Hard Drive Question ?

2012-05-27 Thread Stephen Chape
Thank you to those who helped with my Step son's HD question re encryption. Begin forwarded message: > From: David Ring > Date: 27 May 2012 4:23:09 PM AWST > To: Stephen Chape > Subject: Re: Hard Drive Question ? > > Hi Stephen, > > I have purchased a 1TB iome

Re: Hard Drive Question ?

2012-05-09 Thread cm
Hi Stephen, Using an encrypted sparse bundle as outlined by Ray is indeed an option. If you son is running OS X Lion he also has the option of encrypting the entire external drive using FileVault. The new FileVault method has a few advantages over the older sparse bundle method but be warned th

Re: Hard Drive Question ?

2012-05-09 Thread Ray Forma
Stephen, On any drive use Disk Utility to create a 'New Image' on that drive. The name you choose for 'Save as' will be the name of the .sparseimage file you are creating. The name you give for 'Name:' further down is the name of the virtual disk that appears whenever you open the .sparseimage

Hard Drive Question ?

2012-05-09 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, My step son who lives in Dubai bought a new external backup drive recently. It was an Iomega Prestige Portable 1TB. Because he is always travelling around the world, he needs the data encrypted. However when he got it home he noticed printed in the instructions "can only be encrypted f

Re: External Hard Drive Icon Disappeared from Desktop

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Chong
Cc: > > Sent: > Sun, 8 Apr 2012 01:36:01 +0800 > Subject: > External Hard Drive Icon Disappeared from Desktop > > > I have an external hard drive for use with my Mac OS X 10.6.8. Its icon (by > whatever name I have forgotten) has > been found to be missing from the des

Re: External Hard Drive Icon Disappeared from Desktop

2012-04-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Paul, Is the external hard drive connected via Firewire? Is the external drive showing in Disk Utility? Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility If so do you have In Finder > Preferences > General Show these items on the desktop: External Disks ... Is this selected? Cheers, Ron

External Hard Drive Icon Disappeared from Desktop

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Chong
I have an external hard drive for use with my Mac OS X 10.6.8. Its icon (by whatever name I have forgotten) has been found to be missing from the desktop. Not sure how it happened! How can I retrieve it? Regards Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <h

Re: Hard Drive used for time machine

2011-09-26 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
external drive for ’Storage’. > > But this is just my preference, others might not agree ;-) > > > > > I certainly agree with this given the current price of hard drives, and the > availability of devices like NewTech's Voyager hard drive caddy. A bare 1Tb > drive will

Re: Hard Drive used for time machine

2011-09-26 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
is given the current price of hard drives, and the availability of devices like NewTech's Voyager hard drive caddy. A bare 1Tb drive will set you back around $60 from Austin Computers, and few of these in combination with the drive caddy allows for an almost unlimited choice of backup routine

Re: Hard Drive used for time machine

2011-09-25 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, Once your Time Machine backup ‘Volume' fills up, Time Machine will begin removing (deleting) the oldest versions of your files from the backup in order to make room for newer versions. Thus, the larger the ‘Volume’ or hard drive you use for your Time Machine backups, the

Hard Drive used for time machine

2011-09-25 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Good morning Everyone, The hard drive I use for time machine has two elements (?partitions) Time Machine and Storage. It was set up by someone else. The disc information now reads : *Mount Point* :/Volumes/Time Machine Backups *Capacity* :149.1

iMac 2011 Model and earlier replacement hard drive controversy

2011-06-03 Thread Ray Forma
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Re: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-02 Thread Ronda Brown
tead to disable the VCD. >>> >>> The really strange thing was though that, at each stage you need to >>> disconnect the power from the ext HD and then USB from it, by just pulling >>> them out, for it to "save", all the things you normally don'

Re: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-02 Thread Matt Falvey
>> The really strange thing was though that, at each stage you need to >> disconnect the power from the ext HD and then USB from it, by just pulling >> them out, for it to "save", all the things you normally don't do when >> disconnecting a device. >&

Re: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-02 Thread Ronda Brown
ust pulling > them out, for it to "save", all the things you normally don't do when > disconnecting a device. > > Once again thanks very much for the help the desktop is looking nice and > clutter free again. > > Matt Falvey. > > On 02/11/2010, at 10:40

Re: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-02 Thread Matt Falvey
lvey. On 02/11/2010, at 10:40 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > On 02/11/2010, at 10:26 AM, Matt Falvey wrote: > >> >> Hi, I have a Western Digital 1.5TB External Hard Drive that I am using for >> storing video footage on. I have noticed an annoying icon that keeps >&g

RE: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-01 Thread Crisp, Peter
Subject: RE: Western Digital External Hard Drive Matt, have a look at this link, it looks like it might help you. It's a forum thread with some further links to direct you to a solution. http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-Smartware/How-do-I-remove-this-smartware- software-from-my-drive/td-p/17 Re

RE: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-01 Thread Crisp, Peter
From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Matt Falvey Sent: Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:27 AM To: wamug List Subject: Western Digital External Hard Drive Hi, I have a Western Digital 1.5TB External Hard Drive that I am using for storing video footage on. I have notic

Re: Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-01 Thread Ronda Brown
On 02/11/2010, at 10:26 AM, Matt Falvey wrote: > > Hi, I have a Western Digital 1.5TB External Hard Drive that I am using for > storing video footage on. I have noticed an annoying icon that keeps > appearing on my desktop each time I mount the HD, apart from the HD icon that >

Western Digital External Hard Drive

2010-11-01 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi, I have a Western Digital 1.5TB External Hard Drive that I am using for storing video footage on. I have noticed an annoying icon that keeps appearing on my desktop each time I mount the HD, apart from the HD icon that is, and it is a WD SmartWare icon in the shape of a disk, that I can&#

Re: Time Machine/Shared Hard Drive

2010-09-09 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 10/09/2010, at 7:36 AM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: > > Hi there > > We are setting up backing up the client machines on our network onto a 1.5 GB > external hard drive. This drive is connected to the server and we have > configured > Time Machine on the server t

Time Machine/Shared Hard Drive

2010-09-09 Thread bredens
Hi there We are setting up backing up the client machines on our network onto a 1.5 GB external hard drive. This drive is connected to the server and we have configured Time Machine on the server to back up onto the GB drive. How do we set up on the other client machines to back up using

Re: 17" MacBook Pro - hard drive doesn't spin down etc

2010-06-13 Thread Steven Knowles
b/HT3964 > > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1431 > > Please let us know what you find. > > Alex > > > On 13 Jun 2010, at 18:35, Steven Knowles wrote: > >> >> I had my 17" MacBook Pro in recently for a hard drive exchange, which I >> picked up

Re: 17" MacBook Pro - hard drive doesn't spin down etc

2010-06-13 Thread Alexander Hartner
Hi Steven Have you tried to reset you PMU ? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1431 Please let us know what you find. Alex On 13 Jun 2010, at 18:35, Steven Knowles wrote: > > I had my 17" MacBook Pro in recently for a hard drive exchange, which

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