Thanks James and Ronni
Sure enough, disk utility says all is well - I don't have disc
warrior. But this morning all is humming along nicely - managed a TM
backup without incident, then promptly turned off the firewire drive.
I still feel this has something to do with connected drives - although
the firewire was off when trouble started yesterday, I was doing a
superduper clone to a network drive - or trying to.
Anyway - no time to experiment today. All drives are off while I try
to get some work done....
Thanks for help
alastair
On 06/05/2010, at 2:20 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Alastair,
If Disk Utility is unable to help you.
If you have a Disk Warrior Disc that is compatible with your
computer, run that to check for any problems with your hard drive.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 06/05/2010, at 7:36 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:
do a verify with disk utility, you may have underlaying problems
which may require reformatting the harddisk, corrupted spots on the
hd ........trying to open a file which is corrupted can take
time........
James
On 05/05/2010, at 18:43, mince and pud wrote:
Thanks Rob and Ray
No, my disc is a little over half full
Did the PRAM (after a couple of unexpected safe boots - you meant
command OPTION p r , Ray!!) and apart from the loss of my desktop
picture all is working so far. Except the large photoshop file I
was working on, and which I carefully saved before the pram
restart, has lost its end of file and is apparently irrecoverable.
Grrr
On 05/05/2010, at 11:04 AM, Rob Phillips wrote:
One possibility is that your system disk has less than 10% free
space.
On 5/05/10 5:26 PM, mince and pud wrote:
wah - would really appreciate help on this one; much work to do!
It's not so much a complete freeze as a gradual grind-to-a-halt.
Happened a few times a week or so back and always when my maxtor
external drive was doing something so that's now turned off
except at backup time and all was well until just now...
I've been having trouble updating a clone with superduper,
taking 6 hours and counting to only update 4gb of files.
Spotlight was trying to index the disk image so told it not to.
SD still slow. Went into spotlight prefs and got a beach ball,
tried to force quit (it said not responding) got a box saying it
quit while unresponsive. It seems to be gone but its light is
still on. An application doing this - not always system prefs -
has been common to all the previous occurrences - and doing that
terminal thing to find its PID and killing it doesn't work as
it's not in the list. Can't try that this time as the finder is
also not responding (offers to relaunch but doesn't). Some apps
unaffected - mail fine, safari has always been immune. Pressing
the power key has done the trick before but I did that 5 mins
ago and here I am again.
Help appreciated!
kind regards
alastair
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