"That there" - Drive Utility, is it installed with the external Drive???? Or should it be a permanent resident of the utilities folder? Marta On Aug 15, 2005, at 12:35, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> 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 >> >> >> | 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> >> > > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > | 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>
