Hi, Just a possible typo or clarification with your original post, did you try VO-f2-f2 to bring up the Window Chooser to possibly bring focus to that dialog?
I'm wondering if there are any firmware upgrades for that HD. I've had issues with WD drives in the past that were addressed by firmware upgrades to the drive itself. These upgrades can usually be found on the Western Digital site. Alternatively, as long as you can confirm that the external drive has been backed up properly, try this Terminal command: sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Drive_Name/.* This is a very scary command as you can accidentally delete the entire contents of the drive, if entered incorrectly, thus my caution about making sure that the drive was backed up. Regarding Terminal not reading the line that you just entered, you may need to interact one more level in oder to view those entries. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-04-20, at 5:58 AM, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
