Disk
Disk
Disk
Disk Utility, it is called Disk Utility and yup, it should be granted
permanent resident status in the Utilities folder.
Jerry
On Aug 15, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Marta Edie wrote:
> "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
>>>
>>>
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>> sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.
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> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
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if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one.
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