Hi bill. tell me step-by-step what you want me to do. If it works fine when VO is turned off it is not a Voiceover related problem though, but of course your backup with time machine should work just fine. I have a 20 gb Usbdrive that i am willing to test it on, if you give me clinical instructions.
kind regards Sandi On 11/27/11, Bill Holton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Does anyone have an extra USB drive they can afford to reformat for a little > experiment to see if you get the same problem I do? > > Here's the situation. > > A few weeks ago I started having trouble with my Time Machine backup. So I > figured I would just go ahead and repartition it-it's a two-tarabyte drive, > format it and go from there. Did this,formatted with Mac Extended > journaling, but when I tried to open the drive Finder kept hanging and > reporting busy, busy, busy.. Eventually the fan would come on, the only way > I could stop it was to restart the Mac.This error has been driving me and > the folks at Appple nuts. First they thought it was a bad USB drive, > happens on all three of my drives. And if I turn off VO and let my wife > have a crack at it she can get to the drive easily. Turn back on VO, try to > acces the drive, Busy. Busy. Busy. > > Strangely, if I copy a file from one of my folders and use the right click > to copy that file to the drive it copies fine, and from that point on I can > access the drive-I'm just not convinced this is a long term solution, and > eventually I will start having more Time machine problems. > > So today I bit the bullet and reformatted the drive. Everything worked > fine.until I tried using iTunes. iTunes required a software update, and so > the Mac took the opportunity to update all of my OS files as well. As you > have probably guessed at this point, as soon as the system updates were > installed and the Mac restarted I was back to the same old problems. > > I don't have a second mac to try this one, but is anyone else having trouble > accessing freshly partitioned drives via Finder? > > Any help much, much appreciated. > > Bill > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
