Thanks Lee. I tried to relaunch the finder but to no avail so I killed the machine!
Harry Saturday, June 21, 200811:53 AMLee [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Jun 21, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer lamented: > >> Earlier this morning I copied an 8 MB file to the backup folder on >> my .Mac account. It worked just fine. >> >> A few minutes later I dragged a 10 MB file to the back up folder. It >> began to copy than hung. I let it go for several hours and it was >> still >> hung. I had to hold down the power button on my computer to shut it >> off >> and stop the attempted backup as clicking on the stop button had no >> effect. >> >> Any idea why this might be happening? > >dotMac apparently had some problems early this morning. I couldn't get >mail for a half hour or so at around 7:00 and syncing of Yojimbo and >TextExpander failed at 7:30. > >The Finder is not particularly robust when network glitches happen >during copies and often gets confused when the destination volume goes >away. I see this with AFS and NFS copies once in a while. It's rarely >necessary to nuke the whole machine when this happens; just restart >the Finder with Force Quit. > >dotMac has been having many senior moments lately, probably due to its >imminent death and resurrection as MobileMe. > > > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be June 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: [email protected] >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be June 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
