Mac 101: Format choices for USB flash drives | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. This is a good primer on what formats are helpful to work with. Really most computer people use FAT32 so that tends to be the most compatible.
Bob Timmons has the answer. Great work.
The information in this video talks about a partition on the fellow’s Maxtor external hard drive…..not the Time Capsule.
As mentioned previously in this thread…..it is not possible to “partition” the Time Capsule drive unless you physically remove it from the Time Capsule case….which will void the warranty.
If you want to reserve a given amount of space on the Time Capsule drive, you can set up a disk image, which is similar to a partition.
via Forgot partition after installing time…: Apple Support Communities.
Interesting that a permissions problem could cause this. This seems like something way worse than what is really is. Sort of like life sometimes I guess.
Lion is now installed on my machine. Two previous failed installations. After each failed installation I ran disk verify from the original sl disk in the cd drive. I had to erase and reformat the drive and restore from time machine.
The successful installation: I ran disk verify before the lion install and from the cd. No errors. But then I also ran permissions verify and repaired any issues. Then I re downloaded and installed Lion with success.
There had been no reported permissions issue previously but verify found issues. Don’t know if this is the issue on my machine but fixing it preceded the successful installation of Lion. Perhaps it will help some one else.
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This is fantastic news. I found out from the developer that they are prepared for the next version of Mac OS X Lion. So that means that in the process of changing and cleaning house, people will be protected from their or Apple’s mistakes.
I have been using Disk Drill and it has worked great for me. I love the fact that it can protect programs from being undeleted. For example, many people accidentally drag and drop and delete the wrong application. Then they have to learn how to fix that problem and use unsupported third-party software. Rather than do that, they can just use DD to fix that problem. It is like having Time Machine but not having to buy an external drive. It has saved me time and money.
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S.M.A.R.T really does work. I had a situation once where the hard drive was making strange clicking sounds but still working normally. Disk Utility said that S.M.A.R.T had a problem so I backed it up. It failed in a matter of hours. Since many people don’t know to look in Disk Utility, this is a great feature that helps prevent needing its recovery features.
Of course the other option is to spend hundreds of dollars for a NAS with multiple drives, and redundant hot-swapping. Most people aren’t open to that kind of investment, so this seems like a good way to save money as well.
This is an error that you can ignore. There always seems to be some in every version with Repair Disk Permissions.
Ignore it. It will crop up every time you repair permissions.
Ref; http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
As far as I can work out, an update has moved a component of that system function (Apple Remote Desktop) but Disk Utility isn’t aware of that.It reads the original package, can’t find all the bits and throws up an error.
It’ll eventually get fixed in a subsequent update (no doubt followed by a bunch of new error messages!)
via How to remove/repair ARDAgent.com?: Apple Support Communities.
I get \. Join the club. This is an issue for many people. Once when I worked at a mac design shop, no macs could successfully burn a DVD. It is pathetic. I ended up buying an external DVD burner for $150 that worked great. This has been an issue since 2005. Apple says try different disks from different manufacturers. Cheaper in the long run to just by an external drive that will burn all media.
Pondini solves the issue. Other common Time Machine issues can be found here.
That’s quite strange.
There must be something damaged in your installation of OSX. I’d suggest downloading and installing the 10.6.6 “combo” update. That’s the cleverly-named combination of all the updates to Snow Leopard since it was first released, so installing it should fix anything that’s gone wrong since then, such as with one of the normal “point” updates. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349 Be sure to do a Repair Permissions via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
If that doesn’t help, reinstall OSX from your Snow Leopard Install disc (that won’t affect anything else), then apply the “combo” again.
Did you know that Time Machine works great with many third party NAS?
via Apple – Support – Discussions – Time Machine wont start up ….
