Did you try running disk utility repair permissions? On 3/22/10, Rudolf O. Durrer <[email protected]> wrote: > Normally, a mounted volume should be aliased in the (invisible) > "Volumes" folder and deleted when power is switched off or the volume > is dismounted. > I bought now a new Mini, but then: Surprise. The alias files are not > deleted anymore. The boot volume alias stay as an alias there, and all > other volume aliases are changed to folders with access rights --x--x-- > x. Result: the machine refuses booting. I have to start it in firewire > modus and manually delete the respective items. > > Note 1: This works so far without any problem on all my 3 other > computers (1 Titanium, 1 PPC Mini, 1 Macbook Pro 10 month old) > Note 2: I have usually between 4 (min) to 14 (max) volumes mounted. > Note 3: I have several partitions on a firewire drive, some of them > containing different OS ranging from OS 9 to Snow Leo. > Note 4: All machines are running with OS 10.5.8 (I do not like the OS > 10.6.2, with which my newer 2 machines had been delivered) > Note 5: I have set up 10.5.8 again and again (with no third party > software installed), the problem stayed. I have also started from the > external firewire hard drive, then from Macbook in firewire mode, same > result. > > Is the new Mini too fast shutting down and therefore not able to > delete the aliases correctly or what else could be the problem???? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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