Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence
Hi Alan, If you don’t have DiskWarrior on another Mac that you could boot from and try to Repair the iMac’s Hard Drive. First: Disconnect all devices connected to your iMac - only leave connected Keyboard Mouse. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Reinstall Mavericks: Select Reinstall Mavericks and click on the Continue button. Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. On 23 Nov 2014, at 3:46 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Update on issue - - -. Booted from a 4-week old SuperDuper backup (on a Firewire drive). Held Option key while powering on. Operations are very slow and I don’t know if I’m responding to the SuperDuper or iMac messages. Got boot disk options - Macintosh HD; recovery disk and SuperDuper disk. Selected SuperDuper and logged in. Got information message: “OSX can’t repair the disk Macintosh HD … you can still open or copy files … backup and repair a.s.a.p. Started Disk Utility and Verified disk Macintosh HD. After step “check catalog file” got messages in red: Invalid key length. The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. Error: this disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk. Did Repair Disk and got message “Error: Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - - reformat - - - and restore files from backup.” Sounds rather serious. I did not reformat disk. Any advice (apart from having a strong coffee - - -)? Cheers (sort of) Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 1:40 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Help please! My late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks fails to complete the start-up sequence. Mac was powered off via Apple - Shut Down. Power-up sequence starts normally: chime and grey screen, then the Apple logo and daisy wheel. Then I get a progress bar as if it is loading something (I don’t recall if this is normal). After about 5 percent progress the bar disappears, the daisy wheel continues for a second or so and then the screen goes black plus silence from the internal hard drive. The only wired peripherals are two WD My Book Studio Firewire external hard drives in tandem (one cable from Mac). Tried powering up with the Firewire cable plugged in (normal) and then unplugged. No joy. I tried starting in Safe Mode but could not do so. There was no change, but possibly a slightly longer time interval between chime and daisy wheel. Other observations, but may be red herrings. I used AirDrop to move EyeTV recordings to the iMac this morning. Came back 30 minutes later to move the videos to a WD My Book Studio for iTunes. Noticed that one of the two external drives did not show in Finder. I powered off the iMac so I could access the drives, power cords, etc. Then a few minutes later I attempted to start up the iMac - - -. Regards, Alan -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mail problems again
Hi, Ronni, It’s fixed! I tried all the suggestions with no luck, so started from scratch with the router: discovered that it only had its own DNS number in the Network Wi-Fi panel. Fortunately, I had all the original data written down, so was able to add the necessary. Now I can gather up the piles of hair lying around and try to stick it back on. I can’t imagine how those numbers vanished away. Thank you very much for your help! Cheers, Pat On 23 Nov 2014, at 14:39, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pat, Comments below. On 23 Nov 2014, at 1:43 pm, Pat Scott clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, Ronni, The only entry on the Proxy panel is at the bottom where it says: Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts Domains: *.local, 169.254/16 Should this be removed? NO... As long as nothing is selected (ticked) in the boxes above *.local, 169.254/16 Connection Doctor has indicated Mail can connect to the Internet as it shows green in Connection Status. But shows Red dots in the Account Status column. So you need to Check your Incoming IMAP or POP and Outgoing SMTP email account settings are correct as per your ISPs Mail Settings. Check you don't have any third party firewall software, such as Little Snitch blocking the necessary ports. I presume you have already tried Quitting Mail and Restarting your Mac and then opening Mail again? Power Cycle your Network Modem Router Mac Power all Off - Then first Power ON the Modem - then the Router - then your Mac. Cheers, Ronni Thanks, Pat On 23 Nov 2014, at 11:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pat, Just quickly - Check to don't have any Proxy Server in System Preferences Network Wi-Fi 'Advanced' Proxies Nothing selected under Proxies Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 23 Nov 2014, at 11:12 am, Pat Scott clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: For no apparent reason, suddenly Mail on my Mac is not connecting to the wifi. I can't send or receive anything. This letter is being written on the iPad. The wifi is working properly: the iPad and my husband's laptop have no difficulty with it. There are apps on the iPad that interact with the Mac by wifi and they function normally. So it must be something within Mail. In Mail, the 3 POP email accounts are shown as off-line, with exclamation marks, and they cannot be put back on-line. In the Mailbox menu, I can toggle back and forth between the on and off setting, but nothing happens. None of the account settings have changed. Mail Connection Doctor says Mail is able to connect to the Internet and Connection Status is green, the 3 email accounts all have red status, and I should check account data. I glanced at the Logs. The most recent SocketStreamEvents Log says ERROR: Connecting failed for socket: 0x618000b75e0: Error: Domain=NSPOSIXError Domain Code=60 The operation couldn't be completed. Operation timed out. Also Unscheduled streams from run loop waiting for open -- socket: and much more. Unfortunately, I don't know what it means. Mac Pro 2013 running OS 10.10 Help, please? Pat -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence
Hi Ronni No joy I’m afraid. Also no chime at startup this time - just a litle squeak. But loaded Boot Manager OK. Using Recovery HD, SMART was shown as “verified”. Ran DU Repair Disk twice but had same error message each time “Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - reformat”. No errors noted as fixed. Verify and Repair Permissions remained greyed out. I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on a CD - some years old now. The only CD drive is on the faulty Mac! Cheers Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 4:17 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, If you don’t have DiskWarrior on another Mac that you could boot from and try to Repair the iMac’s Hard Drive. First: Disconnect all devices connected to your iMac - only leave connected Keyboard Mouse. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Reinstall Mavericks: Select Reinstall Mavericks and click on the Continue button. Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. On 23 Nov 2014, at 3:46 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Update on issue - - -. Booted from a 4-week old SuperDuper backup (on a Firewire drive). Held Option key while powering on. Operations are very slow and I don’t know if I’m responding to the SuperDuper or iMac messages. Got boot disk options - Macintosh HD; recovery disk and SuperDuper disk. Selected SuperDuper and logged in. Got information message: “OSX can’t repair the disk Macintosh HD … you can still open or copy files … backup and repair a.s.a.p. Started Disk Utility and Verified disk Macintosh HD. After step “check catalog file” got messages in red: Invalid key length. The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. Error: this disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk. Did Repair Disk and got message “Error: Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - - reformat - - - and restore files from backup.” Sounds rather serious. I did not reformat disk. Any advice (apart from having a strong coffee - - -)? Cheers (sort of) Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 1:40 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Help please! My late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks fails to complete the start-up sequence. Mac was powered off via Apple - Shut Down. Power-up sequence starts normally: chime and grey screen, then the Apple logo and daisy wheel. Then I get a progress bar as if it is loading something (I don’t recall if this is normal). After about 5 percent progress the bar disappears, the daisy wheel continues for a second or so and then the screen goes black plus silence from the internal hard drive. The only wired peripherals are two WD My Book Studio Firewire external hard drives in tandem (one cable from Mac). Tried powering up with the Firewire cable plugged in (normal) and then unplugged. No joy. I tried starting in Safe Mode but could not do so. There was no change, but possibly a slightly longer time interval between chime and daisy wheel. Other observations, but may be red herrings. I used AirDrop to move EyeTV recordings to the iMac this morning. Came back 30 minutes later to move the videos to a WD My Book Studio for iTunes. Noticed that one of the two external drives did not show in Finder. I powered off the iMac so I could access the drives, power cords, etc. Then a few minutes later I attempted to start up the iMac - - -. Regards, Alan -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence
Hi Alan, Might be time to call in your Apple Consultant / Technician as the Hard Drive might be failing and need replacing. You mentioned some time ago both your iMacs 2009 2012 are running OS X 10.9 Mavericks As your newer iMac 2012 has Thunderbolt connection - your older 2009 has FW800 connection Do you have Disk Warrior v4.4 installed in Utilities on the 2012 iMac? If you have v4.3 installed in Utilities you can use the free updater http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/diskwarriorupdate.htmlfor existing owners of DiskWarrior 4 versions 4.0-4.3 to download version 4.4 (you need your serial number) You could then use Target Disk Mode by connecting both iMacs via Thunderbolt to Firewire Adaptor cable. First: Have both iMacs connected to Power Disconnect anything connected to your iMacs other than Keyboard Mouse Target Disk Mode: Shutdown target 2009 iMac - Your 2012 ‘host’ iMac can be running. 1. Connect two iMacs with a Thunderbolt to FireWire cable where the 2012 iMac is the “host” and the 2009 iMac is a “target”. 2. The host 2012 iMac should be running an OS X in which DiskWarrior 4.4 runs. In this scenario, the target 2009 iMac is the Mac whose disk you are trying to fix/rebuild. 3. Start the 2009 iMac and immediately Press Hold the “ T “ key down until the Firewire icon appears 4. The target Mac’s drive will appear as a usable drive on the host Mac. 5. Run DiskWarrior from the host Mac and rebuild the target Mac’s disk. Cheers, Ronni On 23 Nov 2014, at 6:30 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni No joy I’m afraid. Also no chime at startup this time - just a litle squeak. But loaded Boot Manager OK. Using Recovery HD, SMART was shown as “verified”. Ran DU Repair Disk twice but had same error message each time “Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - reformat”. No errors noted as fixed. Verify and Repair Permissions remained greyed out. I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on a CD - some years old now. The only CD drive is on the faulty Mac! Cheers Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 4:17 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com mailto:ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, If you don’t have DiskWarrior on another Mac that you could boot from and try to Repair the iMac’s Hard Drive. First: Disconnect all devices connected to your iMac - only leave connected Keyboard Mouse. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Reinstall Mavericks: Select Reinstall Mavericks and click on the Continue button. Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. On 23 Nov 2014, at 3:46 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au mailto:sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Update on issue - - -. Booted from a 4-week old SuperDuper backup (on a Firewire drive). Held Option key while powering on. Operations are very slow and I don’t know if I’m responding to the SuperDuper or iMac messages. Got boot disk options - Macintosh HD; recovery disk and SuperDuper disk. Selected SuperDuper and logged in. Got information message: “OSX can’t repair the disk Macintosh HD … you can still open or copy files … backup and repair a.s.a.p. Started Disk Utility and Verified disk Macintosh HD. After step “check catalog file” got messages in red: Invalid key length. The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. Error: this disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk. Did Repair Disk and got message “Error: Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - - reformat - - - and restore files from backup.” Sounds rather serious. I did not reformat disk. Any advice (apart from having
Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence
Hi Ronni I had just checked to see if Disk Warrior was installed on the 2009 iMac SuperDuper backup. It is! But I think it would be safer to leave any action until tomorrow.To extend your suggestion, I could copy the app to the 2012 iMac and download (?) version 4.4. Or even use the 2009 backup as the 2012 Startup disk. A too-simple view of things? You seem to suggest that Disk Warrior may succeed where Apple Disk Repair failed. It was the high regard held for DW that caused me to buy it in the first place, but I never had occasion to use it; then it slipped from memory. I would like a fair diagnosis before I call in the Consulting Wizard: the 2009 iMac has no ethernet due to lightning damage 2 years ago, so it may be time for a beautiful machine to go to a retirement home - or the street verge. Cheers Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 9:25 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Might be time to call in your Apple Consultant / Technician as the Hard Drive might be failing and need replacing. You mentioned some time ago both your iMacs 2009 2012 are running OS X 10.9 Mavericks As your newer iMac 2012 has Thunderbolt connection - your older 2009 has FW800 connection Do you have Disk Warrior v4.4 installed in Utilities on the 2012 iMac? If you have v4.3 installed in Utilities you can use the free updater for existing owners of DiskWarrior 4 versions 4.0-4.3 to download version 4.4 (you need your serial number) You could then use Target Disk Mode by connecting both iMacs via Thunderbolt to Firewire Adaptor cable. First: Have both iMacs connected to Power Disconnect anything connected to your iMacs other than Keyboard Mouse Target Disk Mode: Shutdown target 2009 iMac - Your 2012 ‘host’ iMac can be running. 1. Connect two iMacs with a Thunderbolt to FireWire cable where the 2012 iMac is the “host” and the 2009 iMac is a “target”. 2. The host 2012 iMac should be running an OS X in which DiskWarrior 4.4 runs. In this scenario, the target 2009 iMac is the Mac whose disk you are trying to fix/rebuild. 3. Start the 2009 iMac and immediately Press Hold the “ T “ key down until the Firewire icon appears 4. The target Mac’s drive will appear as a usable drive on the host Mac. 5. Run DiskWarrior from the host Mac and rebuild the target Mac’s disk. Cheers, Ronni On 23 Nov 2014, at 6:30 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni No joy I’m afraid. Also no chime at startup this time - just a litle squeak. But loaded Boot Manager OK. Using Recovery HD, SMART was shown as “verified”. Ran DU Repair Disk twice but had same error message each time “Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - reformat”. No errors noted as fixed. Verify and Repair Permissions remained greyed out. I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on a CD - some years old now. The only CD drive is on the faulty Mac! Cheers Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 4:17 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, If you don’t have DiskWarrior on another Mac that you could boot from and try to Repair the iMac’s Hard Drive. First: Disconnect all devices connected to your iMac - only leave connected Keyboard Mouse. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Reinstall Mavericks: Select Reinstall Mavericks and click on the Continue button. Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless. On 23 Nov 2014, at 3:46 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Update on issue - - -. Booted from a 4-week old SuperDuper backup (on a Firewire drive). Held Option key
Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence
Hi Alan, To extend your suggestion, I could copy the app to the 2012 iMac and download (?) version 4.4. Yes. Or even use the 2009 backup as the 2012 Startup disk. A too-simple view of things? Follow my previous instructions below - Use the 2012 iMac to run DW - TDM 2009 You seem to suggest that Disk Warrior may succeed where Apple Disk Repair failed Disk Warrior can often repair a Hard Drive that Disk Utility can not repair. Cheers, Ronni On 23 Nov 2014, at 10:33 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I had just checked to see if Disk Warrior was installed on the 2009 iMac SuperDuper backup. It is! But I think it would be safer to leave any action until tomorrow.To extend your suggestion, I could copy the app to the 2012 iMac and download (?) version 4.4. Or even use the 2009 backup as the 2012 Startup disk. A too-simple view of things? You seem to suggest that Disk Warrior may succeed where Apple Disk Repair failed. It was the high regard held for DW that caused me to buy it in the first place, but I never had occasion to use it; then it slipped from memory. I would like a fair diagnosis before I call in the Consulting Wizard: the 2009 iMac has no ethernet due to lightning damage 2 years ago, so it may be time for a beautiful machine to go to a retirement home - or the street verge. Cheers Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 9:25 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Might be time to call in your Apple Consultant / Technician as the Hard Drive might be failing and need replacing. You mentioned some time ago both your iMacs 2009 2012 are running OS X 10.9 Mavericks As your newer iMac 2012 has Thunderbolt connection - your older 2009 has FW800 connection Do you have Disk Warrior v4.4 installed in Utilities on the 2012 iMac? If you have v4.3 installed in Utilities you can use the free updater for existing owners of DiskWarrior 4 versions 4.0-4.3 to download version 4.4 (you need your serial number) You could then use Target Disk Mode by connecting both iMacs via Thunderbolt to Firewire Adaptor cable. First: Have both iMacs connected to Power Disconnect anything connected to your iMacs other than Keyboard Mouse Target Disk Mode: Shutdown target 2009 iMac - Your 2012 ‘host’ iMac can be running. 1. Connect two iMacs with a Thunderbolt to FireWire cable where the 2012 iMac is the “host” and the 2009 iMac is a “target”. 2. The host 2012 iMac should be running an OS X in which DiskWarrior 4.4 runs. In this scenario, the target 2009 iMac is the Mac whose disk you are trying to fix/rebuild. 3. Start the 2009 iMac and immediately Press Hold the “ T “ key down until the Firewire icon appears 4. The target Mac’s drive will appear as a usable drive on the host Mac. 5. Run DiskWarrior from the host Mac and rebuild the target Mac’s disk. Cheers, Ronni On 23 Nov 2014, at 6:30 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni No joy I’m afraid. Also no chime at startup this time - just a litle squeak. But loaded Boot Manager OK. Using Recovery HD, SMART was shown as “verified”. Ran DU Repair Disk twice but had same error message each time “Disk Utility can’t repair the disk - - reformat”. No errors noted as fixed. Verify and Repair Permissions remained greyed out. I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on a CD - some years old now. The only CD drive is on the faulty Mac! Cheers Alan On 23 Nov 2014, at 4:17 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, If you don’t have DiskWarrior on another Mac that you could boot from and try to Repair the iMac’s Hard Drive. First: Disconnect all devices connected to your iMac - only leave connected Keyboard Mouse. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.
Re: WiFi Home Network with Ethernet.
On 21 Nov 2014, at 7:33 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: My home network has been wholly WiFi for nearly two years. Works well enough, but I’m looking for improvement. Network consists of 2 iMacs, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV to a Time Capsule base (and to an iiNet Bob Lite NBN FTTH modem). (Phone not used much on network.) I seem to get noticeable wait-time on Apple TV and AirDrop due to Time Machine backups. I just plugged in a Cat6 Ethernet patch cable from one iMac to the Time Capsule. All seems to work OK. Apple - System Preferences - Networks show both WiFi and Ethernet are now connected. Are there any settings or preferences that need to be changed? Can the iMac be forced to use the Ethernet connection for Time Machine backups to “free-up” the WiFi? Or is this not relevant? This simplest and most obvious approach is simply to turn WiFi off on your iMac. This has to force it to use ethernet. If for some reason you find it necessary to have both WiFi and Ethernet running at the same time, go to Apple Menu System Preferences Network. Click on the little Gear icon at the bottom of the Services list at he left of the window. Choose Set Service Order... from the menu and move ethernet to the top of the list, if it's not there already. Click OK and close Network Preferences. It's not possible to specify any particular network protocol, at the user level anyway, for any particular activity. Your Mac will simply use the first one it finds. If, for some reason, it can't use the ethernet connection (cable unplugged, for example) it will default to the next available, ie, WiFi. By making sure that ethernet is at the top of the list as described above, you are doing all you can to force the issue. BTW - it's advisable whenever possible to have at least one computer hardwired to your Time Capsule, since WiFi is not 100% reliable for a variety of reasons. You've obviously had a good run until now, but you are now enjoying the optimal configuration. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: WiFi Home Network with Ethernet.
Thanks Peter Connecting the ethernet cable had automatically set ethernet to the top of the list. I hadn’t looked at the gear icon to realize it also set the “service order” parameter. I think I had both ethernet and WiFi working in the past when I had a Belkin modem/router with lower WiFi specs. (Perhaps 2.4GHz only?) Cheers Alan On 24 Nov 2014, at 7:55 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 7:33 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: My home network has been wholly WiFi for nearly two years. Works well enough, but I’m looking for improvement. Network consists of 2 iMacs, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV to a Time Capsule base (and to an iiNet Bob Lite NBN FTTH modem). (Phone not used much on network.) I seem to get noticeable wait-time on Apple TV and AirDrop due to Time Machine backups. I just plugged in a Cat6 Ethernet patch cable from one iMac to the Time Capsule. All seems to work OK. Apple - System Preferences - Networks show both WiFi and Ethernet are now connected. Are there any settings or preferences that need to be changed? Can the iMac be forced to use the Ethernet connection for Time Machine backups to “free-up” the WiFi? Or is this not relevant? This simplest and most obvious approach is simply to turn WiFi off on your iMac. This has to force it to use ethernet. If for some reason you find it necessary to have both WiFi and Ethernet running at the same time, go to Apple Menu System Preferences Network. Click on the little Gear icon at the bottom of the Services list at he left of the window. Choose Set Service Order... from the menu and move ethernet to the top of the list, if it's not there already. Click OK and close Network Preferences. It's not possible to specify any particular network protocol, at the user level anyway, for any particular activity. Your Mac will simply use the first one it finds. If, for some reason, it can't use the ethernet connection (cable unplugged, for example) it will default to the next available, ie, WiFi. By making sure that ethernet is at the top of the list as described above, you are doing all you can to force the issue. BTW - it's advisable whenever possible to have at least one computer hardwired to your Time Capsule, since WiFi is not 100% reliable for a variety of reasons. You've obviously had a good run until now, but you are now enjoying the optimal configuration. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Walt Mossberg on the Return of the Mac
On 24 Nov 2014, at 7:37 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 11:27 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 8:57 am, Michael Hawkins michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: Another point of difference is that Apple also targets Windows users. My wife, for example, has a Toshiba laptop, iPod, iPad and iPhone and is now thoroughly disillusioned because of the effect on connectivity following on from the release of iOS 8. Wow. Just wow. How difficult it is to debate opinions and suspicions. I for one am not wasting any more time with this stuff. I agree Peter! I don't mind healthy debate based on facts and knowledge of the subject but not innuendos and preconceived opinions. Cheers, Ronni Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Disk Warrior Update Problems
Any Disk Warrior users in Wamug? I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on disk and as a soft copy on a good iMac in Utilities. The internal HD on my 2009 iMac is faulty. I intended to do a disk repair with Disk Warrior using Firewire and Target Mode. Both Macs have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed.I downloaded the update for DW ver 4.4 but cannot install it. I attempted to use DW 4.3 but received the message “Directory cannot be rebuilt. Disk is a newer version than Disk Warrior”. Not unexpected, so back to trying to get 4.4 working. The general message on opening the .dmg file states: To install update need - (1) original DW disk (2) admin privileges (3) 3.5 GB disk space (4) a blank CD-R or DVD-R. I opted to “continue” and the install process got to accepting licence agreement then the message “No recordable devices were found. You may connect one via Firewire or USB and press Rescan, or quit. I inserted a 16GB thumb drive but no change to the messages. I reformatted thumb drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) and with GUID partition table. Still no progress. Tried again with DW 4.3 copied to the USB drive. Still no progress. Bought a new 1TB USB 3 hard drive and formatted it as above. Still no progress. Found that information on the Alsoft (DW) website is confusing and the FAQs are Dorothy Dixers. The Update page includes the following information: Uses your original 4.0-4.3 disc to create a new startup disc containing DiskWarrior 4 version 4.4. The new disc will only start up the same Mac models as the original disc.” The last sentence is alarming. Does it mean Mac OS version? Any advice on how to install the update? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2012 iMac 27 Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Walt Mossberg on the Return of the Mac
My use of the word targets was in response to Peter's comment which was as regards Apple's software and hardware supplied to Apple users. I merely made the point that Apple supplies software for use on Windows equipment. Thus comments below arise out of use of extracts from my email out of context. Michael. On 24 Nov 2014, at 10:00 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 24 Nov 2014, at 7:37 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 11:27 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 21 Nov 2014, at 8:57 am, Michael Hawkins michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: Another point of difference is that Apple also targets Windows users. My wife, for example, has a Toshiba laptop, iPod, iPad and iPhone and is now thoroughly disillusioned because of the effect on connectivity following on from the release of iOS 8. Wow. Just wow. How difficult it is to debate opinions and suspicions. I for one am not wasting any more time with this stuff. I agree Peter! I don't mind healthy debate based on facts and knowledge of the subject but not innuendos and preconceived opinions. Cheers, Ronni Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Disk Warrior Update Problems
Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: Hi Alan, Did you drag the DW 4.3 Application from Utilities into the Trash and empty the trash restart your Mac before trying to install v.4.4? Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: 1) Open the 'DiskWarrior.dmg' file you received via download. This will cause the disk image named 'DiskWarrior' to appear on your desktop. 2) Drag to the trash any existing copy of DiskWarrior you have installed. You may need to restart in order to empty the trash. 3) Select the DiskWarrior icon (the icon is a drive with a knight's helmet) found in the upper left corner of the disk image window and drag it to your hard disk. Alsoft recommends that DiskWarrior reside in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. 4) To run DiskWarrior from your hard disk, simply double-click the DiskWarrior icon. In order to run DiskWarrior, you must be started from Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage On 24 Nov 2014, at 12:04 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Any Disk Warrior users in Wamug? I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on disk and as a soft copy on a good iMac in Utilities. The internal HD on my 2009 iMac is faulty. I intended to do a disk repair with Disk Warrior using Firewire and Target Mode. Both Macs have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed.I downloaded the update for DW ver 4.4 but cannot install it. I attempted to use DW 4.3 but received the message “Directory cannot be rebuilt. Disk is a newer version than Disk Warrior”. Not unexpected, so back to trying to get 4.4 working. The general message on opening the .dmg file states: To install update need - (1) original DW disk (2) admin privileges (3) 3.5 GB disk space (4) a blank CD-R or DVD-R. I opted to “continue” and the install process got to accepting licence agreement then the message “No recordable devices were found. You may connect one via Firewire or USB and press Rescan, or quit. I inserted a 16GB thumb drive but no change to the messages. I reformatted thumb drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) and with GUID partition table. Still no progress. Tried again with DW 4.3 copied to the USB drive. Still no progress. Bought a new 1TB USB 3 hard drive and formatted it as above. Still no progress. Found that information on the Alsoft (DW) website is confusing and the FAQs are Dorothy Dixers. The Update page includes the following information: Uses your original 4.0-4.3 disc to create a new startup disc containing DiskWarrior 4 version 4.4. The new disc will only start up the same Mac models as the original disc.” The last sentence is alarming. Does it mean Mac OS version? Any advice on how to install the update? Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2012 iMac 27 Intel Quad Core i5 Fusion 3.2GHz 8G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Disk Warrior Update Problems
Hi Ronni Your instructions are for Installing the DiskWarrior received via download purchase. They do not seem to apply to me. But I did follow the steps re trashing and restarting, with no benefit. Alsoft sell a new DiskWarrior for $100 or an “Upgrade” for $50. I understand the software can be downloaded and with a CD/DVD mailed out with a 3-4 weeks wait. I did not purchase either of these marketing variants. Alsoft also provide a free Update with no hard CD provided. Serial number of the original version must be (and was) provided. A 2.5MB .dmg file was downloaded to my “downloads” folder. I assumed the Update version is just the same as the Upgrade, but without a hard copy. I think Alsoft are playing games with semantics. “Update” must refer to DW software, NOT to a different Apple OS. The fine print in the Read Me file may explain it: The DiskWarrior 4.4 Disc Update Please Read This First This free updater application allows you to create a new startup disk (CD/DVD) with the latest version of DiskWarrior using your original (factory) DiskWarrior 4.0 to 4.3 disc. You can use your updated disc just as you used your original disc to start up your Mac. Please note that your new DiskWarrior disc will contain the latest version of DiskWarrior, but will still contain the same version of Mac OS X as your original DiskWarrior disc. Alsoft cannot update the version of Mac OS X on your disc with this updater application. This means that the disc created by this updater will not be able to start up any Macs that your original DiskWarrior disc is unable to start up. If you have purchased a new Mac that requires a later version of Mac OS X than the copy of Mac OS X on your original DiskWarrior disc, you'll need to purchase an update disc from Alsoft. What if I have a new Macintosh that my current DiskWarrior 4 disc will not start? You should order a new DiskWarrior disc containing a later version of Mac OS X. You can contact our Customer Service department by calling 1-800-257-6381 or 281-353-4090. In any case, I think the Update has failed - at least it should have updated the DW software for the old Snow Leopard utility. Cheers Alan On 24 Nov 2014, at 12:50 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: Hi Alan, Did you drag the DW 4.3 Application from Utilities into the Trash and empty the trash restart your Mac before trying to install v.4.4? Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: 1) Open the 'DiskWarrior.dmg' file you received via download. This will cause the disk image named 'DiskWarrior' to appear on your desktop. 2) Drag to the trash any existing copy of DiskWarrior you have installed. You may need to restart in order to empty the trash. 3) Select the DiskWarrior icon (the icon is a drive with a knight's helmet) found in the upper left corner of the disk image window and drag it to your hard disk. Alsoft recommends that DiskWarrior reside in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. 4) To run DiskWarrior from your hard disk, simply double-click the DiskWarrior icon. In order to run DiskWarrior, you must be started from Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage On 24 Nov 2014, at 12:04 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Any Disk Warrior users in Wamug? I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on disk and as a soft copy on a good iMac in Utilities. The internal HD on my 2009 iMac is faulty. I intended to do a disk repair with Disk Warrior using Firewire and Target Mode. Both Macs have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed.I downloaded the update for DW ver 4.4 but cannot install it. I attempted to use DW 4.3 but received the message “Directory cannot be rebuilt. Disk is a newer version than Disk Warrior”. Not unexpected, so back to trying to get 4.4 working. The general message on opening the .dmg file states: To install update need - (1) original DW disk (2) admin privileges (3) 3.5 GB disk space (4) a blank CD-R or DVD-R. I opted to “continue” and the install process got to accepting licence agreement then the message “No recordable devices were found. You may connect one via Firewire or USB and press Rescan, or quit. I inserted a 16GB thumb drive but no change to the messages. I reformatted thumb drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) and with GUID partition table. Still no progress. Tried again with DW 4.3 copied to the USB drive. Still no progress. Bought a new 1TB USB 3 hard drive and formatted it as above. Still no progress. Found that information on the Alsoft (DW) website is confusing and the FAQs are Dorothy Dixers. The Update page includes the following information: Uses your original 4.0-4.3 disc to create a new startup
Re: Disk Warrior Update Problems
Alan I've sent you an email offlist Let me know if you want me to send the DiskWarrior.app v 4.4 to you please. Ronni On 24 Nov 2014, at 2:28 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Your instructions are for Installing the DiskWarrior received via download purchase. They do not seem to apply to me. But I did follow the steps re trashing and restarting, with no benefit. Alsoft sell a new DiskWarrior for $100 or an “Upgrade” for $50. I understand the software can be downloaded and with a CD/DVD mailed out with a 3-4 weeks wait. I did not purchase either of these marketing variants. Alsoft also provide a free Update with no hard CD provided. Serial number of the original version must be (and was) provided. A 2.5MB .dmg file was downloaded to my “downloads” folder. I assumed the Update version is just the same as the Upgrade, but without a hard copy. I think Alsoft are playing games with semantics. “Update” must refer to DW software, NOT to a different Apple OS. The fine print in the Read Me file may explain it: The DiskWarrior 4.4 Disc Update Please Read This First This free updater application allows you to create a new startup disk (CD/DVD) with the latest version of DiskWarrior using your original (factory) DiskWarrior 4.0 to 4.3 disc. You can use your updated disc just as you used your original disc to start up your Mac. Please note that your new DiskWarrior disc will contain the latest version of DiskWarrior, but will still contain the same version of Mac OS X as your original DiskWarrior disc. Alsoft cannot update the version of Mac OS X on your disc with this updater application. This means that the disc created by this updater will not be able to start up any Macs that your original DiskWarrior disc is unable to start up. If you have purchased a new Mac that requires a later version of Mac OS X than the copy of Mac OS X on your original DiskWarrior disc, you'll need to purchase an update disc from Alsoft. What if I have a new Macintosh that my current DiskWarrior 4 disc will not start? You should order a new DiskWarrior disc containing a later version of Mac OS X. You can contact our Customer Service department by calling 1-800-257-6381 or 281-353-4090. In any case, I think the Update has failed - at least it should have updated the DW software for the old Snow Leopard utility. Cheers Alan On 24 Nov 2014, at 12:50 pm, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com mailto:ro...@mac.com wrote: Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: Hi Alan, Did you drag the DW 4.3 Application from Utilities into the Trash and empty the trash restart your Mac before trying to install v.4.4? Installing the DiskWarrior you received via download purchase: 1) Open the 'DiskWarrior.dmg' file you received via download. This will cause the disk image named 'DiskWarrior' to appear on your desktop. 2) Drag to the trash any existing copy of DiskWarrior you have installed. You may need to restart in order to empty the trash. 3) Select the DiskWarrior icon (the icon is a drive with a knight's helmet) found in the upper left corner of the disk image window and drag it to your hard disk. Alsoft recommends that DiskWarrior reside in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. 4) To run DiskWarrior from your hard disk, simply double-click the DiskWarrior icon. In order to run DiskWarrior, you must be started from Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage On 24 Nov 2014, at 12:04 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au mailto:sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Any Disk Warrior users in Wamug? I have Disk Warrior 4.3 on disk and as a soft copy on a good iMac in Utilities. The internal HD on my 2009 iMac is faulty. I intended to do a disk repair with Disk Warrior using Firewire and Target Mode. Both Macs have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed.I downloaded the update for DW ver 4.4 but cannot install it. I attempted to use DW 4.3 but received the message “Directory cannot be rebuilt. Disk is a newer version than Disk Warrior”. Not unexpected, so back to trying to get 4.4 working. The general message on opening the .dmg file states: To install update need - (1) original DW disk (2) admin privileges (3) 3.5 GB disk space (4) a blank CD-R or DVD-R. I opted to “continue” and the install process got to accepting licence agreement then the message “No recordable devices were found. You may connect one via Firewire or USB and press Rescan, or quit. I inserted a 16GB thumb drive but no change to the messages. I reformatted thumb drive to Mac OS extended (journaled) and with GUID partition table. Still no progress. Tried again with DW 4.3 copied to the USB drive. Still no
