On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > This is not a startup volume, I always have my OS and general user data on > different volumes (and in this case disks).
Right . . .I must have missed that. > > Comparing file numbers is a good idea but not sure where I will get that > detail from, seems to pass quickly in most tools. Finder's Get Info on the folder will give you # of items and size . . .that part was just to verify that your backup copy is actually good by checking source and destination. Won't tell you exactly . . .but I sometimes use that as a gross verification that the copy actually has data in it. > > I don't own that but I my data is obviously worth the price - I have heard in > the past though that it takes a lot of time and is not always successful (I > guess that's obvious). > >> What you have is some sort of directory damage . . .there isn't enough >> information to tell if the CCC copy is good . . .it likely is good but one >> or more files (the ones that have bad directory entries on the original >> drive) may be corrupted. > > Yes, this is what I was thinking too. I don't mind losing a small number of > files (I guess). Of course, it may depend on which ones they are ;-) > If you've got a good copy of the data as verified with Finder sizes . . .then reformatting the data drive should clear up whatever is wrong. DiskWarrior (or similar) will fix any directory errors but may not be able to recover every file. ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
