Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop
Thanks Clark Kris. You guys are very kind to take the time to help me out like this, and I appreciate it. Well, this external hard drive has three interfaces: FW400, FW800, and USB, and I've tried connecting the drive to the Mac with each one of these cables, and in all three cases nothing appeared on the desktop. (On each try, I powered down both the Mac and the external drive, connected the cable, and restarted). The G5 already has two 1TB hard drives in it (no empty bay, in other words), which I installed myself a couple of years ago, although I don't exactly remember how--but I'm sure I could do it again, carefully. I'm not sure which of those two drives has the OS on it, but if I couldn't tell, I'd probably pull that one and have no OS when I replaced it with the one from this external enclosure. That's the kind of stuff that always happens to me. Murphy hates me. Maybe I'd better not try moving the bad drive from the enclosure into the Mac until after I try DiskWarrior. And I can't try DW for at least a few days, because although I just now bought it online, it's not available as a download. I went to their website (Alsoft), and because I was able to provide a serial number off my old DW disk (dated 2003) they let me buy the latest version for half price ($50). But as I said, it's not available as a download--instead they're mailing me the app on a DVD. So I have to wait for it to arrive. What I'm also going to do, while I'm waiting, is order up TWO big external drives from OWC, or maybe NOT from OWC, because I've been having so much trouble with their blasted external drives (any suggestions for a different and more reliable brand, or is there no such thing?). Anyway, one of these new externals will be my working drive, and the only purpose of the second one is going to be to back up the first one. I don't want to go through this data recovery thing ever again. I was working on some Final Cut videos on that external drive, and had put many hours into them, and now they're being held hostage inside that drive by whatever gremlin has taken it over. NEVER AGAIN will I not have a continuous backup for such work! Meanwhile, do you think should I suspend further recovery attempts until DW arrives? Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop
On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Tom wrote: Thanks Clark Kris. You guys are very kind to take the time to help me out like this, and I appreciate it. Well, this external hard drive has three interfaces: FW400, FW800, and USB, and I've tried connecting the drive to the Mac with each one of these cables, and in all three cases nothing appeared on the desktop. (On each try, I powered down both the Mac and the external drive, connected the cable, and restarted). Meanwhile, do you think should I suspend further recovery attempts until DW arrives? I don't think you'll have any luck with DW, not with the current enclosure at least. It's pretty clear the FW/USB - SATA interface is the problem. DW isn't going to help with that. Once you put this drive in another enclosure you may need DW at that point. It's possible the failing interface munged data being written to the drive. My daughter's laptop had that happen when the IDE interface started failing. You won't know until you can access the drive. Hopefully the drive will be okay and you won't need DW. I would wait till you get a new enclosure (or try the internal interface). Then see if it's okay, it likely will be okay. Try copying the entire drive over to one of your new externals. I believe you want to do that anyway. Doing the copy will show up any disk errors. And you can work on / check the contents of the copy rather than working on the original. If everything is checks out okay you can be confident the drive is okay and the problem was just in the interface. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop
Thanks Clark. OK, I'm ordering up a new enclosure for this drive from OWC (this one: http://tinyurl.com/y94fw3) plus two big new external hard drives, and DiskWarrior is also on the way. Guess all I can do for the nonce is just sit tight and wait for all this stuff to arrive, while mourning my deflated bank account. Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?
Greetings Jeff ( + )!( + ) Jeff take a look at this page, perhaps the application Creating a PDF from HTML help docs with PDFpenPro 5 might be what you are looking for or perhaps the WEB Page owner can help. http://blog.smilesoftware.com/ Cheers. Harry San Jose, Ca (`-''-/).___ ..- -''`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ,' (((.-' fl On Nov 26, 7:29 pm, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to export an iPhoto event to a .pdf file? reason being I want to make a repair manual and it would be real handy to be able to do that. Jeff Engle Kamiah Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop
On Nov 26, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Tom wrote: OK Isaac. I'll probably try that too somewhere down the line. First I thought I'd give DiskWarrior a go. I dug around in my disks and found the DiskWarrior 3.0.2 disk, which has for OSX written on it in pen. But I'll bet the last time I used it was for OSX 10.2 or something, a long time ago. Dare I try it on Leopard 10.5? Or, I see DiskWarrior 4.0 for sale for $100 on the Alsoft website, or an upgrade for $50. Do you suppose v3 is upgradeable to 4.2? I can't find anywhere on the site where it says what versions are upgradeable. BTW I took this external drive and plugged it into the FW400 port of a G4 eMac, and then a G4 dual 2.0, and it didn't show up on the desktop of either one of them. However, as I said before, when this drive turns on it spins up and does the little clickety-clack noises it always used to just before it showed up on the screen. It just doesn't show up anymore. And my Time Machine external drive does show up on the desktop of the G5, so I'm assuming that means that the FW ports of the G5 are OK. Tom That was going to be my next suggestion, try it on another machine. If you had another enclosure, you could switch the drive in it. I'm pretty convinced based on your description of the sounds coming from the drive itself that it is probably fine. I've had a lot of trouble in the past with enclosures failing even believing at one point that my G4's firewire was kaput. Then one day I decided to scan something with my firewire based scanner and it worked just fine. Later, a Mac guru mentioned that you should always ensure that any enclosure has the Oxford chip set or trouble will be waiting down the road. I ought to get one as I have about four dead (but good) drives laying around all of which came out of bad enclosures... JT SHOCKING: 2010 Honda Civic for $1,734.09 SPECIAL REPORT: High ticket items are being#46;#46;#46; http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4cf138d8a48f3f8d9est06vuc -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?
You can email individual photos to yourself then take those individual images and create a pdf file in Acrobat. From: Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 7:29:03 PM Subject: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible? Is it possible to export an iPhoto event to a .pdf file? reason being I want to make a repair manual and it would be real handy to be able to do that. Jeff Engle Kamiah Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?
Possibly not quite what you're after, but pages can save a document as a PDF, so you could put your pictures into there, write a bit about them, and export it as a PDF? Or, preview can also save as PDF. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to just create a PDF from iphoto though. Unless you can print the whole event, but rather than physically printing it, you could use osx's print to PDF feature, et voila? Or, I know that if you create a greetings card of some sort in iphoto, it'll let you save that as a PDF you can print yourself, not sure you can do the same thing with one of it's (iphoto) photo books On 27 Nov 2010, at 18:21, Brian Fuelleman fontgee...@yahoo.com wrote: You can email individual photos to yourself then take those individual images and create a pdf file in Acrobat. From: Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 7:29:03 PM Subject: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible? Is it possible to export an iPhoto event to a .pdf file? reason being I want to make a repair manual and it would be real handy to be able to do that. Jeff Engle Kamiah Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?
On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Is it possible to export an iPhoto event to a .pdf file? reason being I want to make a repair manual and it would be real handy to be able to do that. Print it as a contact sheet, and select print to pdf. Put the directions in the comments for the repair manual (or just illustration #'s). -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
(Problem solved) .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?
On Nov 27, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 26, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Is it possible to export an iPhoto event to a .pdf file? reason being I want to make a repair manual and it would be real handy to be able to do that. Print it as a contact sheet, and select print to pdf. Put the directions in the comments for the repair manual (or just illustration #'s). -- Bruce Johnson Thanks Bruce for this helpful fix! Jeff -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
