On Aug 14, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Schoun Regan wrote: > > 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 >> >> >
Cathy, My error in the initial line of my text. The steps I told you will also work with any FireWire device. Schoun | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
