Hi Barry, I sent my first reply on Monday (3 June) Select (highlight) your Seagate Drive icon on your Desktop Then - Go to File > Get Info At the bottom of that window you will see "Ignore ownership on this volume"
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 06/06/2013, at 10:05 AM, Barry Sexstone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ronni > > Thanks for the emails. For some reason I did not get your first one. The > Seagate is formatted as you say GUID Partition Table and Mac OS Extended > (Journaled). Disconnecting the drive and reconnecting it does allow the > incremental to run. > I am not sure where to find the ignore ownership box you refer to in your > second email. I have look at the disk info by right clicking it on the > desktop but the information box does not show this. Is the file you refer > to the backup file? Info on the disk from utilities shows owners enabled > yes, can turn owners off yes. > > Regards > > Barry > > On 06/06/2013, at 8:00 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: > > iMac 10,1 > Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz > 12GB RAM > 1.0 TB HD > OS X 10.7.5 > >> I notice my signature block showing my system set up was not appended to >> this, I don,t know why so I will give it here and also try to append it >> iMac 10.1 >> intel core2 Duo 3.06 GHz >> 12 GB RAM >> 1.0 TB HD >> OSX 10.7.5 >> >> Barry >> >> iMac 10,1 >> Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz >> 12GB RAM >> 1.0 TB HD >> OS X 10.7.5 >> >> On 06/06/2013, at 7:52 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: >> >>> I am still having problems with my Seagate 2TB external disk my and back up >>> regime as I mentioned in my email of 3rd June. My usual method is to have >>> Carbon Copy Cloner run an incremental backup daily. The initial backup >>> runs OK but 24Hrs later the incremental backup does not run with an error >>> message saying "Could not find BU" BU being the name I have assigned to >>> the external disk. The disk then failed to eject when requested saying >>> "cannot eject BU as a program is using it" I presume this was CCC still >>> trying to find the disk. I managed to force eject the disk. I have done >>> all the obvious things, reformatted, run repair disk etc and I noted that >>> when I tried to reformat initially I had a "could not Unmount" message >>> which I overcame by clicking on the Unmount button. >>> >>> I have tried running a Super Duper backup system and a similar problem >>> occurred. The initial backup ran with no apparent problem but the >>> incremental the next day failed with the message "could not establish >>> ownership of BU" >>> >>> Can anyone spread any light on this problem or point me in a suitable >>> investigative direction? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Barry -- 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>
