Hi Cathy, I'll assume the other - that you have a firewire hard drive. If so . . .
Make sure you have the latest firmware installed on the drive. That can be found through the manufacturer or through versiontracker.com. If it's a LaCie Porsche hard disk (and may apply to other brands as well), verify that the drive is formatted for the Macintosh (HFS+). Often, the drive out of the box is formatted FAT32 (for MS-DOS or Windoz). And if so, while mounted you may want to run a disk utility check to verify that the drive's directory is not corrupted. It goes without saying that once you observe the drive is not mounted, you will not be able to find using the "Find" command anything on the drive. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 128 Breckenridge Lane Louisville, KY 40207 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On Aug 14, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Green, Cathy wrote: > Greetings all, > > Since I've maxed out the hard drive of my iMac (G3) desktop running > Jaguag (10.2.8), I hooked up a new 160 GB external drive. I > dragged most of the space-hogging stuff to it, but the problem is: > occasionally, the icon doesn't appear on the desktop & doing a > file>find doesn't locate it. So I have to turn off the external & > then back on, which usually does the trick; only a handful of times > have I had to restart the whole thing to get it to appear...This > makes me a bit nervous, since the only copy of my music files & > such is on the external drive. I don't want to back up the files > to my laptop, as that space is getting limited, etc....Is there > something I need to set/reset to avoid this from causing future > concern/potentially more serious issues? > > TIA, > Cathy > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050814/a8e77839/attachment.html
