Hi Paul, sounds to me like a bug in OS X 10.7 Lion. All you have to do is finding a way to copy a file or a folder to the root. Then Lion can open the Volume. Or you upgreat to Mountain Lion. All the best Jürgen
Am 21.04.2013 um 11:51 schrieb Chris Gilland <[email protected]>: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
