External Hard Drive spontaneously ejecting after upgrade to Snow Leopard
Anyone else experiencing this spontaneous ejection or have a solution?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6)
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6)
POSSIBLE SOLUTION!!
I run a film program, and I have seen this problem happen twice, where the hard drive partition (where students save all of their work) is ejected from the Event Library and the Project Library right after Final Cut X opens (but you can still see the partition in Finder). The IT guys came down to look, and suggested it might be a "corrupt filename" causing it. They also noticed something strange: Final Cut could still IMPORT from the ejected drive, but it was listed under "Cameras" rather than "Devices" where hard drives are usually listed. That got me thinking; what if something is causing Final Cut to think the hard drive is a camera?
So I looked at the files that students had saved to the drive that kept ejecting, and sure enough, I saw a camera archive on there; the student had copied the entire contents of an SD card we use in our AVCHD cameras (a directory that is named "PRIVATE" by the camera). So I took this "PRIVATE" folder (or archive or whatever) and moved it inside a folder on the drive, et voila! Final Cut no longer ejected the drive!
So you might try looking at the files on the drives you are having problems with. If you have camera archives on there, you might try putting them inside folders, so Final Cut does not mistake your hard drive for a camera. Simple mistake, right? Stupid computers!
Hope this helps some of you. If it works, pass it on.
Dan
appletonian wrote:
Although it might technically solve the problem to never put hard drives to sleep, it's not particularly energy efficient for me as I have a number of external drives connected to my machine at any given time.
rbmanian75 wrote:
... When i type something on spotligh search, it ejects the disk some times.
jimmykl wrote:
Other threads I've been following have also reported that this has been fixed in 10.6.1 so it might be worth updating if you have not already done so.
MrHoffman wrote:
Or leave the host box set to not spin-down the USB gear.
External Hard Drive spontaneously ejecting after upgrade to Snow Leopard