Danke sch?n --- and -- you confuser of things, I even checked the find> under name for this never heard of drive utility. I only had two utilities, the disk and the iDisk one. Now I can rest in peace. Marta On Aug 15, 2005, at 13:02, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> | 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> >> > > ----------------------------------- > 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>
