Catalog backup stops responding in PSE12

Windows 7 Pro, 3MB Ram, Dell Vostro 400. I have backed up catalog before to external hard drive. Started having trouble with backup which stops responding at 76% on the pop up window indicating progress of complete backup. Tried several times and 76% is the magic stop point. Any clues as to why?

I let it alone for 1-1/2 hours. Not responding. Several reboots, no luck.
FYI - windows 7 , 64 bit, 9GB of RAM, plenty of hard disk space, 20,000 photos in PE6 catalog. all drivers up to date according to Msoft.
Adobe employees - any advice?

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Good day to all.
I apologize if my English seems strange but I'm French and not that fluent.
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Hi again,
I still suspect a faulty USB port.
Your response is still a bit confusing, so just to be sure:
- Did you also try a USB port on the backside of your Mac?
(if your keyboard is usually connected to the frontside, and you normally plug the mouse into the keyboard, it doesn't help to try testing it by plugging it directly in the front port, if this port is faulty, it's still the same port. If this is your situation, definitely try a port on the back)
- When you connected the other (older) mouse and keyboard, they were initially not recognized, but they were after rebooting, so did they function properly after this reboot? Did you connect these on the same port you usually connect your Logitec and keyboard to, or did you try different ports?
- Do you have access to another mouse and or keyboard, which is 100% sure known to work perfectly on another computer? If yes, try this on your mac.
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you should actually post this in the Mac Pro forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/desktop_computers/mac_pro
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3 Windows Server 2012 Standard - 1 DC, 1 FileServer, 1 Application Server.
1 Windows Server 2008 Standard Exchange Server.
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Updates
We have applied the most resent updates to the Hosts, WMs and iSCSI SAN about 3 weeks ago with no change in our problem and we continually update the setup.
Normal operation
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Symptoms (i.e. this happens, or does not happen, at the same time)
I we look at resource monitor on the host then we see that there is often an extensive read from a VHDX of one of the VMs (40-60 Mbyte/s) and a combined write speed to many files in \HarddiskVolume5\System Volume Information\{<someguid and no file extension>}.
See iamge below.
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(I have split the image to save horizontal space).
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Hi,
> All VMs are using dynamic disks (as recommended by Microsoft).
If this is a testing environment, it’s okay, but if this a production environment, it’s not recommended. Fixed VHDs are recommended for production instead of dynamically expanding or differencing VHDs.
Hyper-V: Dynamic virtual hard disks are not recommended for virtual machines that run server workloads in a production environment
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee941151(v=WS.10).aspx
> This is the primary host and normaly all VMs run on this host.
According to your posting, we know that you have Cluster Shared Volumes in the Hyper-V cluster, but why not distribute your VMs into two Hyper-V hosts.
Use Cluster Shared Volumes in a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612868.aspx
> 2 teamed NIC dedicated to iSCSI storage.
Use Microsoft MultiPath IO (MPIO) to manage multiple paths to iSCSI storage. Microsoft does not support teaming on network adapters that are used to connect to iSCSI-based storage devices. (At least it’s not supported until Windows Server 2008 R2. Although
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Understanding Requirements for Failover Clusters
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771404.aspx
> I have seen using MPIO suggests using different subnets, is this a requirement for using MPIO
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Check that and modify cluster configuration, monitor it and give us feedback for further troubleshooting.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee923636(WS.10).aspx
Support for Multipath I/O (MPIO)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770294.aspx
Deployments and Tests in an iSCSI SAN
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Microsoft Office 2004 (Word) unable to save files I have been running Office 2004 on my Intel iMac with Snow Leopard for some time and all of a sudden I cannot save a document. Word just stopped responding and I have to force quit. I can open Word and cr

Microsoft Office 2004 (Word) unable to save files
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Look, I realize you might have to get your machine working, so this is how you revert back.
Restore proceedure to pre-Security Update 2012-001 v 1.0 & v 1.1
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Backup files off the computer (not to TimeMachine). If you don't have a external drive, get one and connect to the USB/Firewire port and simply drag and drop copy your User folder to the external drive, it will copy all your files. It's best to have two backups of your data off the machine when trying to restore.
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Reboot and log in, update to 10.6.8 via Software Update, but EXCLUDE THE Security Update 2012-001 by checkinig the details and unchecking the blue check box.
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<blockquote>
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intel core i7-2630QM 2.00GHz
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windows 7 home premium 64 bits
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I tried several times to get iTunes and the iPod to sync, but the same thing occurred each time. Finally I did a complete uninstall of iTunes, QuickTime, Bonjour, and a few other Apple products, rebooted, and reinstalled iTunes to try again. The same thing happened again, except this time I cannot even shut iTunes down using the Task Manager. I am sure that iTunes works with Windows 7, so there must be something on my end that is causing the problem. If anyone has any thoughts, I would greatly appreciate it.

What happens when you try?
Can you sync music?
Have you synced apps from this computer/iTunes library before? You an only sync app from the one syncing computer you can have.
Are the apps compatible with your model iPod/iOS
Do you have restrictions set that would prevent installation of those apps?
Settings>General>Restrictions

External Drive Stops Responding [sorry, not FCP related]

Sorry, I didn't realized I posted this under Final Cut Pro. However, if you have a suggestion, heres the link for the new one:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8913406#8913406
Message was edited by: oatmealsnap
I have a Western Digital 500GB Studio Edition. The drive works fine with transferring small amounts of data (a few GBs), but when I try to use Time Machine to back my whole computer up (~70GB), at some point the drive stops responding. There is no pattern as to where when it stops working, it could be 17kb, it could be 69BG, but I have never been able to complete a backup.
What happens is that after a certian amount of time, the drive just stops responding. The "Ready light" is on, as if it is just waiting for me to use it, and Time Machine thinks it is still backing up, but its not. This also happens outside of Time Machine, if I just have the drive running for a while, the drive stops working. This is also accompanied by Finder freezing up until I unplug the drive. Sometimes (but not every time) I also have to unplug the drive from the outlet in order to get it to respond again.
This may be unrelated, but I am using Firewire 800, which, as I understand, should be able to transmit data at 800MB/s, but it is dramatically less than that. Again, the speed varies, but it is usually around just a few MB per second. I understand that this vary with the drive and computer, but I think that a year old drive/MBP should be able to transfer data close to 800MB/s.
I have a windows partition, and I experienced the same problems, especially when playing game stored on the drive. I recently got an eSATA ExpressCard, but unfortunately the drivers are only available for Windows. I haven't had any problems with the drive not responding since I have been using the ExpressCard, and data transfers have been very fast (again, not sure how fast, but games now run like they did on my internal hard drive).
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FW800 has a theoretical limit of 800 mb/s - that's mega bits (not bytes). The firewire bridge chip and hard drive's ability to spool do not usually even come close to that theoretical limit.
Still it sounds like your hard drive is not working. I'd get everything off it, reformat it and start over.
The reality of the situation is your mybook is not designed for video editing. I guess they do back ups fine but not much else. Your best path would be to either a) get an external hard drive designed to be used for editig - Caldigit, granite digital, etc or, if your computer suppports them, populate your internal bays with sata drives and use those as media drives.
Good luck.
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External Drive Stops Responding

I have a Western Digital 500GB Studio Edition. The drive works fine with transferring small amounts of data (a few GBs), but when I try to use Time Machine to back my whole computer up (~70GB), at some point the drive stops responding. There is no pattern as to where when it stops working, it could be 17kb, it could be 69BG, but I have never been able to complete a backup.
What happens is that after a certian amount of time, the drive just stops responding. The "Ready light" is on, as if it is just waiting for me to use it, and Time Machine thinks it is still backing up, but its not. This also happens outside of Time Machine, if I just have the drive running for a while, the drive stops working. This is also accompanied by Finder freezing up until I unplug the drive. Sometimes (but not every time) I also have to unplug the drive from the outlet in order to get it to respond again.
This may be unrelated, but I am using Firewire 800, which, as I understand, should be able to transmit data at 800MB/s, but it is dramatically less than that. Again, the speed varies, but it is usually around just a few MB per second. I understand that this vary with the drive and computer, but I think that a year old drive/MBP should be able to transfer data close to 800MB/s.
I have a windows partition, and I experienced the same problems, especially when playing game stored on the drive. I recently got an eSATA ExpressCard, but unfortunately the drivers are only available for Windows. I haven't had any problems with the drive not responding since I have been using the ExpressCard, and data transfers have been very fast (again, not sure how fast, but games now run like they did on my internal hard drive).
I made sure my drivers were updated, I even installed the "WD Turbo Drivers". The Partition Map Scheme is GUID Partition Table. Under Energy Settings in System Preferences, I unchecked the box "Put the Hard Disk to sleep when possible".
I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this problem in the forums, or elsewhere. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

You're probably right, that it's some problem with the drive. You might want to search this forum for similar posts, also see what Western Digital might have to say. I don't have any experience with WD, but some drives have sleep/inactivity settings that don't play well with TM.
But to be sure there isn't a TM problem, like a file it doesn't like, download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget from: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/timemachinebuddy.html. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window.
If you see something there that seems suspicious, copy and post the messages here (be sure to get them all, as sometimes they overflow the small window).

I have an HP Pavilion All-in-One PC with windows 7 and it has stopped responding.

Last Thursday my computer worked fine and Friday it stopped responding. It will open a webpage in about 20 minutes even with roadrunner turbo. Nothing works at all. I did a virus scan but I dont know what else to try. Please help me. Thanx, Shelly
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This is tough to guess because there isn't a lot of information to work with. I'll provide some basic steps you can take to see if it helps. Try clearing the temporary internet files, cache, and other non-essential stuff from your system. You can do this in tools menu, then internet options. There is a good cleaning freeware program called CCleaner. I use that and it finds a lot of junk and discards it. It also cleans up the registry for you as well. If your hard drive is very full this could slow it down as well. see if there are files you can backup off the drive or delete to free up space. It's also possible that your system is dusty and dirty and it's slowing down the processor. Maybe it's time to clean the vents and see if the heatsink in the PC is clogged with dust. Heat can also slow a PC down especially if it's left on a lot so make sure it's cleaned as well.
Hope these tips help you.
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