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Sep 8, 2013 2:13 PM in response to Johndrake12by BDAqua,Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
Reboot, test again.
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Sep 8, 2013 2:17 PM in response to BDAquaby Johndrake12,Hi DBAqua il try it out i take it this wont delete any of the data?
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Sep 8, 2013 2:30 PM in response to BDAquaby Johndrake12,Ok, i am unable to click repair disk permissions because when i set the permissions i click 'get info' and it does the same thing flashes and goes back to normal, i clicked 'repair disk it says
'The volume johns drive appears to be ok'
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required
Any ideas ??????
The HD. Still flashes when attempting to open!
Grrrrr lol !
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Sep 8, 2013 3:28 PM in response to Johndrake12by BDAqua,Oh, the Repair Permissions was for the nternal drive, you can only Repair Permissions on a drive wuth OSX on it.
In Disk Utility, if you highlight the external drive is the Mount icon lit?
So it shows in Finder, just can't open it?
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Sep 8, 2013 3:30 PM in response to BDAquaby Johndrake12,Hi again,
Yes it is mounted and it shows in finder window, but when i click on it it just flashes and finder closes
Very strange never seen this before.
Thanks again
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Sep 8, 2013 3:42 PM in response to Johndrake12by BDAqua,Couple of more things to try...
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2474
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
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Sep 9, 2013 12:46 AM in response to BDAquaby Johndrake12,Ok "/volumes" i try and go to it, the whole screen flashes and nothing happens
Tried safe boot i click on my hard drive is disk utility and repair permissions is unhighlighted i.e i cannot click on it.
Calling WD today this is winding me up.
Thanks john
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Sep 9, 2013 2:10 PM in response to Johndrake12by BDAqua,Sure seems like a failing drive or case components, do let us know the outcome of your call.