Yep. Checking the drive light definitely would have worked for me at night, but unfortunately, the little white light on the western digital elements drive I was using is practically invisible for me in the day time. I'm just happy everything worked eventually, and that Baby Blue is back to normal. Thanks for that suggestion, though. Next time I need to use CCC, I'll make sure to do it at night when I can "see" what I'm doing. (smile) Missy
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problem with carbon copy cloner resolved I noticed this with the new version, the options to start the process were still there when I did my last backup, since I have some vision, I could tell the light on the external drive was flashing, so I just let it do its thing. Try the restore again and give it some time. On Jul 25, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi Missy, > > I've seen this one time before. Here's what I eventually figured out. The > cloning process did start the first time I clicked the clone button, but for some reason, VoiceOver didn't notice that the window had changed. The only reason I knew at all is because I touched the external drive and felt the vibrations that told me it was working. Toggling VoiceOver off and back on revealed the window containing the status of the cloning process. Even switching windows and then coming back didn't show the status window, only a reset of VO would do. > > This is a highly unusual thing for VO to do, and it doesn't happen often. > Still, I might write the author of CCC to see if he has any ideas why it happens. > > Glad you got it working. Hopefully this tip will save you some frustration if > this comes up again. > > Justin > > On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > > Hi, all! Please disregard my original message on this subject. Apparently, > the tenth time or so is the charm. It seems to be working now. No clue what I did differently, but I'm pretty sure all is well. Barring any unforseen catastrophy, my macbook should be back to "normal" in about half an hour. I'll keep an external HD with Lion, and will reverse this process once the lion service pack has been released or I hear from others that some of the bugs, most noteably the com.apple.doc.extra thing have been fixed. Until then, especially as a mac newbie, SL meets my needs quite adequately, and for now at least, I'd rather have my mac run cooler and have a longer battery life than to run the latest and greatest OS. > Missy > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Problem with carbon copy cloner > > Hello, all! I decided for the time being to go back to snow leopard, but I > backed up my lion install first onto a separate drive, just so I'd have it available in case of emergency. Anyway, I booted from my SL external drive with no problems, and have formated my macbooks internal hard dribe. Now, I'm trying to clone my SL drive back onto the internal drive, but CCC isn't working. I make all my selections, click the clone button, and then absolutely nothing happens. I get a system/growel notification that the copy is starting, but the window never changes. I've had this trouble before, but usually, after 1 or two attempts, the cloning actually begins. This time, no matter how many times I try, it just won't start. I have the latest version of CCC running; it wanted to update itself right when I was preparing to restore the internal HD. > If anyone has any ideas what might be going on and how to fix it, I would > really appreciate it. In the mean time, I can either boot from my sl external drive or the lion external drive, but my internal drive is blank as can be. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. 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