Over the last week my TimeCapsule went belly-up.
A good friend, who knows much, was appalled that I did not own Disk Warrior. In fact, I did have and used it a lot, during OS 9.x era and until 2004 when I decided I did not need it. And I never did need it until this week. But I bought a CD and downloaded a new Disk Warrior v 4.2.
But there is no way DW can resurrect the Time Capsule as it does no even show in Disk Utility or in a Finder window or when asked to accept a Time Machine upgrade, or be seen by Disk Warrior. It is, to quote The Goodies, 'dead'.
But you are not in this situation, yet!
And remember that you are talking about you main computer.
May I recommend you consider most carefully the purchase of Disk Warrior? Now, before things get
After looking at the list of your third-party applications, therein lies a serious problem, in my opinion. Even though I've only heard of one of them, they just look suspicious.
While you are in a spending mode, have a look at 'Amnesia'; excellent remover of unwanted stuff.
Info: Disk Warrior is Mac-only; it re-builds the directories on hard drives.
Look first at <www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/>
And beware - Disk Warrior cannot correct faults on a drive connected through a network, like Time Capsule. Just found out this fact.
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Regards from brianF
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On 12/01/2011, at 10:06 AM, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote:
> Hello Paolo,
>
> On 11.01.2011, at 15:21, paolo savonuzzi wrote:
>
>> I had a similar issue, desktop icons re-arranged on restart, on my old PPC MB 17 and I'm having a different one on both the iMac 27
>
> Good to know that I'm not the only one. :-)
>
>> and, sometimes, MBA: startup items reset to "none" and Safari cache emptyied.
>
> You mean cache in Safari is emptied without you being directly involved?
>
>
>> but, at least, these annoyiances, are random and do not happen too often
>
> I can confirm that. By me perhaps once or twice a week, it mostly happens after hours of downloading movie parts with Safari.
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>
>>
>> this kind of problem, afaik, is caused by a preference file becoming corrupted, maybe by some third party app or "extension" or "hack" (some applications install these without you even knowing)
>
> This is what I have been thinking about too. Regarding third party applications, do you possibly use one of the following programs as startup items?
>
> Spark
> SizzlingKeys
> SimpleFloatingClock
> ChronoSync with ChronoSyncBackgrounder
> Default FolderX with Default FolderX Helper [I had this, but disabled it]
> MUMenu
> Paste Master
> BusyCal with BusyCalAlarm
> FlexCalAgent (Part of BusyCal)
> Chronories
> Contactizer Pro
> MaxMenus
> Typinator
> Scribblet
> MenuCalendarClock
>
>
>> all I can think of, now, is...
>> a) a non Apple certified RAM module (on the iMac)
>> b) something related indeed to external HDs (two Iomega are constantly plugged-in to the iMac)
>> c) ... 10.6 Finder itself (I also had since day one, and still have, the Finder crashing and relaunching when scrolling folders containing hundreds of files :-/ )
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>
> The Finder crashes now indeed far more often than I am used to. The good thing though is that it automatically relaunches again and very fast, not like in the past where such incident would crash the whole machine.
>
>>
>> I strongly suspect both b and c ;-)
>> (btw: own too one of those new WD HDs and after using it for the first time... I immediately removed their useless, and potentially dangerous in my belief, "manager" software)
>
> I wholeheartedly agree. Their backup software is absolutely useless.
>
> For some reason I never managed to clone system 10.4.11 on the WD external hard disk, but fortunately I could clone OS 10.6.5 without any problem.
>
>>
>> hope it helps (but I think it doesn't, sorry!)
>
> This was a very good feedback. Thanks a lot Paolo.
>
>
> Žorvaršur Davķšsson
> OS X 10.6.5
> MacBook Pro 17''
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