You might also consider trying the Drive Utility app that lives over
in your Utilities folder. It is famous here for being the app to use
to Repair Permissions (fixes nine out of ten problems, unclogs
kitchen sinks, walks the dog at night in rain storms, etc.)
Drive Utility will do a lot more for you. If your drive is connected,
but not mounted, DU can take care of that for you, along with
ejecting drives, and more.
Jerry
On Aug 15, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Green, Cathy wrote:
> Schoun & Ward,
> Many thanks for your input on my question. Will have to
> temporarily shelve the emails until the opening-of-school-dust
> settles and I have the time to fish around to try to resolve the
> issue with your suggestions. Like Marta (and many others), I do
> appreciate your expertise and willingness of all to help, and
> marvel at the depth and breadth of many of the postings!
>
> Cathy
>
> ----------
> From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of
> Schoun Regan
> Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:04 PM
> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> Subject: Re: MacGroup: external drive [bcc][faked-from]
>
>
> 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
>
>
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