Paul,
You're doing everything I would have done with one suggestion. Have you
gone into Disk Utility and tried to repair/verify the disk, and its
permissions?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Erkens" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 7:58 AM
Subject: finder crashes when opening external disk
Dear listers,
I have a Western Digital 1tb drive attached to my mac. Its file system is
mac os extended, journaled, so that should all be fine. However, when I go
to this drive in finder, by simply hitting command down arrow on its volume
icon on the desktop, finder crashes. Voiceover says I'm still on the
desktop, but my wife says she sees a window with 2 buttons: reopen, or
cancel. I cannot reach this window myself using command accent, nor with vo
twice f1, nor by turning vo off and back on. If my wife clicks the error
window, then yes I can see it with vo.
While googling, I found a solution that advises to delete all mac files from
the root. I think they mean, delete all dot files and let os10 create those
from scratch. But I have no way to get into the drive.
This is a fresh mac os10 installation, and I haven't been in terminal since,
but when I open terminal and then press my braille display up key, VoiceOver
says last login, and then a date. I should normally be able to read the
previous line in terminal, i.e. the result of my commands. I need to find
out how to get terminal on its feet again, but that's a different problem.
I'm hoping to find a way to solve this finder crash when opening the
external drive, starting by deleting the files on its root that start with a
period. According to a post I found on the net, that may solve finder
crashes when opening an external drive. I tried command g, go to folder in
finder, but that command crashes finder as well, when I type in
/volumes/macserver1. macserver1 is the volume label of the external drive.
Any ideas? What can I do to let finder open this drive? CrashPlan is backing
it up just fine, so it should be accessible to the os. It's just that finder
has problems with it. Any advice?
Paul.
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