Corrupted Directory

I just got my iPod and when I try to get music from iTunes, it is telling me that there is an error because the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

See these.
What to do if iTunes displays a corrupt file message.
Da Gopha's corrupt file info.

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    Using a flashdrive with a 2008 mac book, I hit the flash drive and now the directories names are corrupted.  One example of the directory's name is: <$ ® ø.a¦p
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    Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. Select the flash drive volume from the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab on the right panel near the top. Click on the Repair Disk button to repair the disk. If errors are reported then click on the Repair Disk button again until all errors are repaired.

  • Kernel Panics, Drive Corruption, Directory Issues.

    Desktop M8840LL/A Dual 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 (FW800) MDD
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    Discussion group helped fix that issue.
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    Booted from my System 1.5 install disk and had a dark grey/ Must restart your mac screen while I was booting from the DVD!
    Did an Apple Service diagnostics on the machine and all was great - no issues.
    So I did a clean install on a drive and all looked great!
    No other software installed except the system.
    Rebooted OK.
    I then did the apple software update and restarted.
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    I have been working on this for three days and seem to be going backwards at best.
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    It can happen right away or an hour later.
    Sometimes I get a message "your computer was shut down etc" sometimes I don't!?
    Sometimes I get a startup chime - sometimes I don't!!??
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    I stripped my Mac down to barebones incluing original 80GB Drive 512 RAM and Original Video card and started over.
    To make a long procedure shorter I found that all hardware was OK and after running ASD to confirm I reinstalled all my hardware/Add ins except for drives.
    I then started to check each drive individually with Applejack and then formatting and reinstalling virgin systems on each drive.
    Applejack and/or the system DVD would not fix and/or install on three of the Hard Drives (1 IDE 500GB and 2 500GB SATA)due to permission corruption. I could not do anything with these drives at all!
    When I had these individual drives in the computer I experienced kernel panics with every one!
    All the drives were under warranty and Western Digital replaced all of them. (I cannot begin to tell you how great Western Digital was in turnaround time and cross shipping and help in this matter.) Their warranty service is the best I have ever experienced bar none!
    I am now running non stop for nearly a week without any kernel panic or problem whatsoever. I have also noticed a significant speed up in my computer.
    I have rebooted many times and run non stop for days at a time.
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  • Database problem: corrupted directory structure

    I have just installed Lightroom 1.3.1 on a PowerBook G4 with MacOS 10.4.11 and 1 GB RAM.
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    Detlev-
    Yes, the "database" is the .lrcat file. A size of 30 Megs sounds o.k. for 2000 images.
    I don't know why you crash, but with such an import job, I'd be inclined to copy images from the CD to desktop, move the folder into the place you want, then run LR. You can do it sequentially, so you're copying to DT while LR is importing the previous.
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  • Corrupted Directory leaving photos locked in the Library

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  • Rebuild corrupted directory on NAS?

    I have a LaCie NAS drive on my network. When I browse the drive in the Finder on my Mac, some of the files are missing or misplaced. However, when I log in to the drive via FTP, they're all there and in the right locations. The drive itself has a "rebuild database" option, which didn't solve the problem, so it seems like the Mac itself is caching some incorrect/outdated directory info. Restarts and remounting don't help either.
    Does anyone know how I can tell my Mac to take a second look and show me the files as they actually are on the drive? Disk Utility won't see it because it's NAS.
    Thanks in advance.

    I don't have the latest DW, but just tested DW3.0.2 and it does not see any Networked Drives, don't think any previous version did either.
    You may end up having to pull it out of the NAS case and put it in a FW or USB2 case to fix it with anything at all.
    NAS drives are all the rage right now, but I personally will never buy one again.
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  • Drobo failure & Directory corruption

    Reporting my experience with a Drobo failure and great support from Alsoft DiskWarrior :
    My Drobo failed. Not a hardware failure, but a corruption in the directory that prevented my disk to mount...
    According to Drobo support, everything was "ok" on their side.
    According to me, I had lost access to almost 3TB of data !
    This was the second time a directory corruption happened to me on one of my Drobo (I've never experienced this on any other type of drive in 15 years... but according to Drobo support, it could happen to anyone...) . Therefore I was already equipped with the excellent "DiskWarrior" from Alsoft, which had already saved me once.
    I was not so lucky this time : an error in Alsoft prevented the Directory to be rebuilt.
    I contacted Alsoft support and I was really impressed by the service ! Marc from Alsoft took the time to remotely connect to my machine and do his magic, manually retrieving, fixing and mounting the corrupted directory. Helping me retrieve almost 2TB of data.
    A couple of lessons :
    - be paranoid with backups : this Drobo was storing archives of backups... I was anxious to retrieve the data, but nothing bad happened because of this failure.
    - don't trust advertising : Drobo would claim that you cannot loose data. I did...
    - don't name your files with generic names : when the directory structure is corrupted, and you have to manually retrieve files, you're much better off with "backup_project_20110823.gzip", than with hundreds of "backup.gzip" files and no folder to know what they are !
    - when things go bad use DiskWarrior ! The software is great and the service is incredible !
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    - what's the best method to prevent them (hard unplug/power failures being the cause I know about). I am considering re-activating Tech Tool protection - but it's soooo slow.
    - what alternatives to drobo would you recommend for archiving data ?

    I started lots of corruption issues with my Drobo the same day I upgraded to OS X 10.8. See my discussion thread below.
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    I logged a case with Drobo Support and they told me I was the only one having such issues.
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  • Moving files from pc to mac - directory structure gets all messed up - help

    Hi, I just got my new Mac Book Pro (mid-2009) and I am having trouble bringing over my 70gb of data from my old pc. I am using VM Fusion and have also downloaded NTFS-3G. I cloned my PC HD onto an external USB HD (formatted with NTFS) and have plugged it into the Mac. I can mount the drive, read and write files from the drive, but when trying to copy files, it would start, but would not finish the job (threw an error after 50mb saying something about trouble copying a file and then froze). I called apple and they said try to do the copying through Fusion. I have one large Mac partition, no Windows partitions on my Mac drive and am running Fusion with XP Pro. I tested the copy function in Windows from my external HD to the "documents" directory in my Mac directory under my user node and small directories (.1 - 2gb) copied fine. But when I tried to copy a 20gb node, it started putting subfolders in random places within the tree structure under the root node I was copying. With 92,000 files, its hard to go re-sort the sub-folders into the right places. Why is it doing this and is there a better way? I'm leaving for 2 wk trip tomorrow and don't want to have to lug my PC with me. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks very much. Larry

    You are not in a MacBook forum.
    And I would use Boot Camp to set aside a Windows partition and install Windows natively.
    Fusion can run Windows on the Boot Camp partition just fine.
    MacFuse + 3G? or there is Paragon NTFS 7 for Mac OS X. Sometimes free is fine, sometimes commercial product. And Snow Leopard may have ability to read HFS+ from Windows (like MacDrive7/8 only that can write to HFS+ also).
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    Bad filenames?
    Filenames that are valid for Mac Extended may not be valid on NTFS, but haven't heard of the reverse being a problem.

  • Power Mac G4 MDD data recovery ftom corrupted hard drive

    After my previous post on 4/7, my mac started new symptoms. When I press the power button, the mac starts up with the familiar chime showing the Apple Logo. The daisy spins and spins for a long time, and then the screen goes black and it sounds the chime again and repeats the same thing. It seems the hard drive can't be found. I'm thinking of replacing the hard drive hoping this will solve the problem.
    Regretably I don't have a backup copy of recent photos. Is there anyway I can recover data from this diseased hard drive? Can commercial disk repair softwares normaly do this? Has anyone successfully recovered data this way? Any suggestion? Please let me know.

    Your hard drive may have hardware and/or electronic problems or it may have a corrupted directory. Can you hear it spinning? If it has a malfunctioning component, software solutions won't be able to repair it. Professional data recovery is an option for dead hard drives, but it's very expensive. If the drive has a badly corrupted directory, a utility like Alsoft's "DiskWarrior" would be worth a try. Prosoft's utility "DataRescue" may also be worth checking out.

  • Directory Damage, what can be used for Disk Repair and Virus Detection?

    Hi,
    My eMac is acting up. Yesterday I started getting these messages that I needed to restart my computer (message was in a brown box window with an icon of a start up button in background).
    I did the disk repair using Start up CD and it came back with "invalid key......." or something like that, and when I tried to repair it, it tried to repair the B-Tree's but then said it could not repair the problem.
    I have Diskwarrior 3.03 Build 39, on a CD and on my FW Ext HD, which has a clone of my Mac HD.
    Diskwarrior could not produce a graph of Mac HD because the directory was damaged. When I did a rebuild it hung on step 9 comparing directories, said there was 7 million + tests. ( I let it hang on step 9 for 15 hrs. to see if maybe it was just taking a long time due to corrupt directory). I finally clicked on Skip and got to the report page. I could do a preview, but the replace button is greyed out. When I was comparing the sizes of each folder, in both preview and original, I got a can not calculate error message on a few of them. The size of Mac HD in preview compared to the one in Original was different by 4 gbs. A week ago I repaired the Mac HD and did a Diskwarrior directory repair on all my HD's.
    Before I do any reformatting of HD or other drastic measures, I was wondering what is safe to use for disk repair and virus detection. I know there is Norton System Works 3.0, Norton AntiVirus and TechTool, are these the only ones? Are these safe to use? Are there any other programs that can repair directory damage?
    Thank you in advance,
    Deb
    eMac 2005 1.42GHz Combo Drive 256MB Tiger 10.4 75GB   Mac OS X (10.4)   Western Digital (WD) 160GB FW Ext & WD 320gb Media FW Ext, Creative Speakers

    The long-standing rule of thimb has been that if Disk Warrior can't repair a mungled disk directory, then you're looking at reformatting or replacing the hard drive. Since this is a week-old hard drive, I'd suspect the replacement hard drive is itself bad. It might save you grief in the long run to contact the vendor who sold you the drive and inquire about their warrenty. You might want to first run the file system check utility fsck as described in Using Disk Utility and fsck
    Directory repair and antivirus protection are different critters. Norton AV is mostly safe (if you don't mind it's track record of false positives) and is used by the IT department at the lab where I work. Norton SystemWorks, AKA Disk Doctor Kervorkian, is most assuredly NOT safe. For every poster reporting something nice about it, you'll find at least 2 dozen cursing it. It has a known track record of detecting problems no other utility finds and of "repairing" drives such that nothing can then read or repair the drive short of low-level reformatting (and occasionally even that fails).
    Tech Tool Pro 4 has a good reputation, as does Drive Genius. Tiger OS X 10.4.2 and later include a version of Disk Utility that can for the first time also make effective B-tree and keys out of order and overlapped extent repairs. Still, my personal gut feeling is that if Disk Warrior is choking on the hard drive, you're looking at reformatring while zeros the drive (zeroing should detect and map out bad physical secotrs).
    You can also refer to Disk First Aid: What to do when it finds an error and to Handling "overlapped extent allocation" errors reported by Disk Utility or fsck

  • Bridge corrupts my files

    Hi:
    I this has happened to me with a number of files: Bridge corrupts them. I have succesfully transfered the files, NEF from Nikon D700, from the camera and they open fine in both bridge and photoshop (CS5). But after doing batch renaming and adding meta data to a large number of files, some are corrupt. I cannot open then or see preview. I get the error "Unexpected end of file".I can still see preview in finder, but now I'm un certain if that's just the embedded preview or if the file is actually ok.
    Unlike other entries on the subject, this is not caused by corrupt intermediate storage, flash or usb sticks. It's bridge that screws up.
    Two questions:
    1. How do I recover?
    2. How do I avoid this in the future? Is DNG the only way to ensure that Bridge/Photoshop won't screw up my files?
    Any help? Please?
    Thanks, Erik

    Two questions:
    1. How do I recover?
    2. How do I avoid this in the future? Is DNG the only way to ensure that Bridge/Photoshop won't screw up my files?
    Any help? Please?
    I would highly recommend that you run a good disk utility and look for problems on your HD, as this would be a very unusual problem for Bridge, but a likely problem from an underlying HD problem, like a corrupted directory file. This is a big red flag in my book.
    Are you saving settings in sidecar files (my preference) or the central XMP database? (Check your prefs if you're not sure). I strongly prefer sidecar files.
    DNG is not the answer to your problems - a DNG file can become corrupted just as easily as the XMP sidecar file. If you are just renaming files, the original RAW file should not become corrupted, as Bridge does not write info into the RAW file, it only re-writes the name.  Adding metadata should put data into the sidecar file, and again leave the RAW file untouched.  Have you looked to see if the original RAW files are unchanged? Have you looked at the sidecare files of "corrupted" images to see what happened to the XMP files?  Have you removed the offending XMP files and let Bridge "start over" with a new XMP sidecar file? The image itself should be ok.  I also assume that you're re-built the cache for the "bad" files to make sure that the problem is really with the files, and not the cache.
    Has any other non-Adobe software "touched" your files? The only time I have had this type of problem was when using PhotoMechanic to change some GPS data, then going back to Bridge CS5. For some reason, at times they don't play well together and the XMP gets foobarred. The versions of XMP that they use are different.
    Recover?  That depends on how you have backed up your images and how many backup copies you keep.  Hopefully, the original images are backed up as a last resort.  I often keep intermediate backups as well, after making significant changes to images or adding lots of custom metadata, and I copy to tape every morning at 0300.
    I'd start with a good hard look at your HD with the Apple Disk Utility, TechToolPro, or DiskWarrior (or all three).  If there is a problem and it doesn't get fixed, you'll have more problems down the road.
    Give us feedback on what you find and what your workflow is and I'm sure you'll get more advice.
    --Rich

  • IMovie - corruption with external disk

    I used a Canon HD30. I plugged firewire from the camera to the G5, put the tape in the video camera, launched iMovie, created a new project and selected the external hard drive as always so the hard drive doesn't run out of space.
    I movie recognized immediately the HD30 and from iMovie, I clicked import. All the clips were imported as normal. Then I saved the project and closed the iMovie.
    The problem is that the external drive is now blank like if it was formatted and I even don't have the project saved anywhere.
    Does someone know what could have happened and most of all, if there something I could do to recover the data that was on the external drive?
    I tried to plug the external drive on different machines even a windows to see if I could see some files on the external disk.
    I also tried a software called Data Rescue but the software cannot read the external drive.
    Hope you have a re comforting solution for me.
    Thanks
    R

    I don't know if you know all about using external discs with Macs (..or with any kind of computer..) ..meaning that you mustn't unplug them from the Mac until you've removed the disc's little identifying icon from your Desktop, by dragging the icon to the Trash, or by Ctrl-clicking on the icon and then choosing 'Eject..'
    If you just unplug an external disc, it might not have fully written its 'Directory' (..the list of files stored on the disc..) ..and you risk completely corrupting the Directory if the disc is just disconnected without having 'Ejected' it from your Desktop.
    If you did 'Eject' it first, that's fine. If you didn't, then the Directory may be corrupt. If that's the case, your Mac might not be able to find anything that's on the disc.
    A program called 'Disk Warrior' may be able to rebuild the Directory and retrieve your data. It's important that you get the appropriate version of DW to match your version of the OS X operating system ..in your case, version 10.5.4, I think you've put at the bottom of your posts.
    Here are some instructions about using DW. It can be bought via Amazon.
    I think that 'Data Rescue' works more on individual files, rather than rebuilding a corrupted Directory. Data Rescue's web page says "..What if the drive doesn't show up in Disk Utility?
    If the drive is not recognized in Disk Utility, then Data Rescue II will not be able to see it either.." ..maybe that's why DR "..didn't even scan the disk.."
    If you attach the external disc, click on the apple symbol at top-left of your screen, choose 'About This Mac' and then click the 'More Info..' button, then System Profiler should show you details of your Mac. Choose 'FireWire' from the left-hand column and it should give you details of your external disc. If NO details show up there, then DR ..and probably DW.. won't be able to read the external disc.
    However, you said "..I have created a test file using TextEdit and it save he file with no problems.." so your external disc should be readable. So I guess the problems have come about because the disc was FAT 32 formatted, and "meta-data" has been lost, but most of the data should still be ther - as long as you didn't unplug the disc before 'Ejecting' it.
    I'll post back again later, when I've done some tests here.. meanwhile maybe others will make a few suggestions..
    P.S: ..You connected your Canon camcorder and the FireWire external disc at the same time, and imported from the camcorder ..that's unusual, as Canons usually like to be the sole device on a FireWire circuit. If your disc is connected via USB, instead of by FireWire, then you'd obviously look under 'USB' in the left-hand column of System Profiler.

  • [SOLVED] Corrupt partition table

    A couple days ago I was transferring large files to my 1TB external Seagate USB drive (NTFS).  It was going smooth then on one file it stopped and Thunar gave an error.
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    Now, days later, I am unable to mount the USB drive.
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    Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204885504 bytes, 1953525167 sectors
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disklabel type: dos
    Disk identifier: 0x6e697373
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    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdc1 ? 1936269394 3772285809 918008208 4f QNX4.x 3rd part
    /dev/sdc2 ? 1917848077 2462285169 272218546+ 73 Unknown
    /dev/sdc3 ? 1818575915 2362751050 272087568 2b Unknown
    /dev/sdc4 ? 2844524554 2844579527 27487 61 SpeedStor
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    I run sudo ntfsck /dev/sdc:
    $ sudo ntfsck /dev/sdc
    file record corrupted at offset 3221225472 (0xc0000000).
    Loading $MFT runlist failed. Trying $MFTMirr.
    First attribute must be after the header (0).
    and it just seems to be stuck there, I've left it running for a few hours...
    Is my disk screwed?
    *edit*: I got it! Check my other post further down this thread
    Last edited by uberscientist (2014-12-16 19:15:57)

    I fixed it finally!
    I had set the drive aside and was sad about it for a while, and decided to give another shot at googling and repair, here's what I did to get it working:
    install testdisk: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … /testdisk/
    sudo testdisk
    [ Create ] (new log file)
    selected the corrupted drive
    >[Proceed]
    >[Intel ] ( By default it picked None... I just guessed Intel/PC)
    >[Analyse]
    >[Quick Search]
    >[Continue]
    >[Deeper Search]
    >Stop (press enter to stop after it finds another entry)
    >Down arrow, then right arrow to set it Primary partition (non-bootable for my case)
    >[Write ]
    Mount your drive

  • Corrupt 160gb Lacie Ext. HD, I/O error

    First, the specs:
    Powerbook G4
    CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
    Number Of CPUs: 1
    CPU Speed: 1.67 GHz
    L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
    Memory: 1 GB
    Bus Speed: 167 MHz
    Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f3
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    I purchased a Lacie 160gb firewire 600 external harddrive designed by Porsche. Stored on said drive was an entire feature film in Final Cut Pro format, including FCP files, capture scratch, and render files, etc. The drive functioned normally for approximately 5 months until yesterday, when capturing more footage, the drive failed to respond and umounted itself.
    Presuming it was the casing/IDE ribbon/general IO corruption causing the error, I purchased another external casing - CompUsa brand, with 2 firewire 600 ports and 1 USB 2.0. After switching the drive from the lacie casing to the additional external casing, the same problem occurred.
    I ran the disk utility. It recognized the drive as I had named it (Turbo 911... Ironic, No?) so I tried to run a verify and repair on the disk, and came up with this error message:
    Verify and Repair disk “TURBO911”
    ** /dev/disk1s1
    ** Phase 1 - Read FAT
    Unable to read FAT (Input/output error)
    Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
    1 non HFS volume checked
    1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
    I attempted to connect the drive to other mac systems, including an iMac G4 and Powermac G5, but no dice. I ran PROSOFT Data Rescue II and tried to recover the data, which I can successfully complete at any given time... However, it will only allow me to recover the CBR folder and subfolders therein, meaning that I lost the names of all the files, meaning that it will be nearly impossible to reconnect all the files in final cut, meaning that I'll essentially have to start from square one, meaning that I'm sitting here with my head in my hands, listening to rammstein and trying to fix my drive via ESP. I'm considering opening iSledgeHammer and using it on my hard drive, followed by iDrinkingBinge and iGoBackToBeingBroke. In the mean time, iNeedSleep and tiLenol. Thanks in advance for whatever help you may be able to offer... at this juncture, I'd rather hear that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are steadily and hastily making their way towards Miami than "Sorry, no luck, abandon all hope, resistance is futile."
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    Darren Perlmutter
    Darren[dawt]Perlmutter[aht]gmail[dawt]com

    ... my computer wouldn't start up it just went to the grey apple screen and then hung. So I started it in single user mode and fsck -fy it and it came up with invalid node structure, disk i/o error.
    You need Disk Warrior or TechTool Pro to fix that error, Disk Utility, as you found, won't. And booting from your DVD to run DU would be older than what you installed on your LaCie.
    Looking this up I found that this probably means a dead HD
    AHT doesn't look at the file structure or directory and all you have is a corrupt directory. If Disk Warrior can't fix it, you can erase the drive and should be fine. Would be better to erase with the option "zero all" though.
    And you should always have backups of your data and bootable emergency drive, which you now have.
    What does this mean?
    Did the power go out or did you force the computer to shutdown? that is the most common. Filling a drive beyond 85% can also. You have 153GB, so that means you should have no more than 138GB or so used.
    For $75 you can get 300GB or 500GB for $127 and up to $168.
    I didn't back anything up... without expensive data recovery costs?
    Disk Utility can. Restore tab. You'll want to have a 160GB partition to restore to. Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3 is another http://www.bombich.com
    I've got a Dual 2 Ghz PowerPc G5 with 512 MB DDR SDRAM and a 160 Western Digital internal HD running OS X 10.4
    I would want to upgrade RAM with at least 1GB (2 x 512) or 2 x 1GB. And make sure you have two backups and a 2nd internal drive. A new and larger drive will also perform better, and let you use your old drive after you reformat it as data backup.

  • New Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz Nehalem Quad and FCP and Compressor

    When something goes well for a change it deserves its rightful place in the posts of this discussion forum. I just completed my hook-up and an initial test on my new Nehalem quad Mac Pro, and I must say that once in a while things do work out.
    1. The noise level is non-existant. I literally had to check to make sure that the unit was on. This in comparision to my G5 which sounds like the SST on take off. I might now actually hear the audio on my video monitor.
    2. The speed is INCREDIBLE! Prior to shutdown, I ran a test by sending an hour's worth of mixed XDCAM EX/HDV footage to Compressor on my G5. At the highest quality 2 hour setting for DVD encoding (double pass) it took the G5 12.5 hours to encode. Running the same clip through the same version of Compressor in the Mac Pro took approximately 45 minutes. This roughly translates into a 16.5X increase in speed over my dual 2.5 Ghz processor G5. I'M SOLD! And for now, the Honeymoon continues.
    The only drawback (besides the price) is that I had to buy a $100 adapter/power supply to enable my old 25" Cinema screen run on the new video card.
    Thanks
    fastfreddy

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    What matters is cleaning the X1900 of dust and from clogging intake and exhaust - every three months.
    Run Apple Hardware Test from your OEM DVD.
    Install SmcFanControl 2.x and keep the fans rpm to 800-900 instead of 499-599 base as minimum at least.
    Monitor temperatures with Hardware Monitor or similar.
    Have you been looking to see in System Profile: Memory if there are any errors?
    Normally, clone backup update weekly and running Disk Warrior at the same time should be done to spot disk directory and file system problems before they get worse. Or any time your system freezes.
    Freeze... and what you have 90% of the time is a corrupt directory and other errors.
    At which time you may need to restore if you can't fix the problem. And don't rely on only Apple DU First Aid to find and repairs any and all errors.
    For Snow Leopard maybe a flashed ATI 4870 to replace the X1900.
    You may need to start over from scratch to get things stable once you find what is happening, and work with a test system until then with some trial and error. Format/initialize and clean install of 10.6.x for the OEM 10.4.7+.
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