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Feb 10, 2014 11:08 PM in response to MrBHKby MrBHK,Also the Smart Status is showing up as Not Supported in Disk Utlility ... drive shows up there but all options greyed out
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Feb 11, 2014 12:23 AM in response to MrBHKby BDAqua,Hi,
Smart Status won't be available for most external drives, not a problem there.
WD makes great drives, but their enclosures rhymes with duck.
Is this a Bus powered drive? (the worst invention since Sarin), or does it have AC power?
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Feb 11, 2014 3:08 AM in response to BDAquaby MrBHK,AC power .... whats strange is its happened now with two different drives ... which continue to mount on other OS devices
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Feb 11, 2014 8:34 AM in response to MrBHKby BDAqua,Do they show up in Disk Utility or System Report?
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Feb 11, 2014 4:18 PM in response to BDAquaby MrBHK,Showing up in Disk utlity ... but all options like repair etc ...greyed out
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Feb 11, 2014 4:41 PM in response to MrBHKby BDAqua,OK, highlight one in DU & click on the blue Info icon, any clues there, like Format?
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Feb 16, 2014 8:50 PM in response to BDAquaby MrBHK,So its all very strange.. when I plug it into the mini, it will show up in DU for a short period of time, when I click on Info, everything seems to be fine, it then within 2 minutes or so dismounts and cant been seen. It never shows up in finder. Another anomolos behaviour ... in my finder windows there are regularly lots of finder windows for want of a better word building up and I have no way to close them ... so I click on finder or new window and there will be a list of 15 or so other finder windows open .. lastly the finder windows somethings become offcenter in the screen and the only way to get to a file is to open another new finder window, which resizes everthing to normal again.... a lot of info I know anyways takes for kind assitance its appreciated ... I am totally lost here
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Feb 17, 2014 12:11 PM in response to MrBHKby BDAqua,You're not the only one lost, but try these...
First, 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...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Also...
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...
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Feb 23, 2014 9:16 PM in response to BDAquaby MrBHK,Hey thank you so much for your lenghty reply, will give this a try this week ..
I bought a reconditioned macbook pro as a more expensive short term solition ... but this time a punted for the applecare cover
after recently
1. Losing 4 day old macbook air
2. Losing 27 inch Imac to dead motherboad
3 Losing ipod nano to blown circuits
4. MacMini deciding it not longer liked mounting external hard drives
Still all that considered ... I do not like windows : )
Brian
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Feb 24, 2014 12:49 PM in response to MrBHKby BDAqua,This sounds only minorly similar, but throwing it out...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5496841?start=0&tstart=50