Crap! i ran disc utility and it killed 20 GB!
as i do every month, i ran my usual disc utilities today...these include disc warrior and booting from the mac os x install disc. as i do every month, i ran disc repair, then erase free space. when i was finishing erase free space, my computer bombed (it showed a dark black screen and said hold down the power key to restart, i assume the equivalent of a system bomb in 9) and i did. when it booted back up, i was at about 1.2 GB, so my computer took forever to boot. When i started, i had 23 GB! what happened, anyone know?
ben
Ben,
The concept of using tools for monthly maintenance is an old one. The only type of maintenance you want to do is backup, and then specific maintenance used to make sure updates you install won't go awry. By using a maintenance tool when nothing was actually wrong, you probably created a problem where none existed before. This is why it is vitally important you backup before you do any sort of maintenance. For more on the kinds of things you want to do when you upgrade, see my FAQ:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
For more on a variety of backup options see:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
I rarely do any other type of "maintenance" except if I need to troubleshoot a problem my system is having.
Disclaimer: Reference to links I make to my Macmaps.com website are a for your information only type reference. I do not get any profit from this page, and it is open to the public.
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Permissions differ on "Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/Resources", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
Group differs on "Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/version.plist", should be 80, group is 0.
Permissions differ on "Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents/version.plist", should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rw-r--r-- .
Group differs on "Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents", should be 80, group is 0.
Permissions differ on "Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaPluginCocoa.bundle/Contents", should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on "System/Library/Components/AudioCodecs.component/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
Permissions differ on "private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x .According to Mactracker, your Mac could recognize 3 GB of RAM:
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One thing to check is your RAM usage while playing WOW. I am not a gamer, so I don't know if you can play with your Dock visible, but if you can, here is an easy way to keep track of your RAM usage.
Go to Activity Monitor (in your Utilities folder in your Applications folder) and put it in the Dock. Then while in Activity Monitor, go to View (in the menu bar)>Dock Icon and select "Show Memory Usage".
You want to see a lot of green in the pie chart. If you don't, you are running out of RAM and then the computer turns to your hard drive to fulfill the functions of RAM. This process is much slower, and I could see it resulting in freezes. If you find that the green virtually disappears while gaming, you could well benefit from upping the RAM by another 1 GB to 3 GB total.
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I can get into safe mode. But no regular startup.
I tried disabling bluetooth, thinking that might be related. It didn't help.
I even tried using the install disc to run disc utility. That didn't work so I reloaded the OS.
But I still get hung on the blue screen when trying a normal startup.
All help would be appreciated.Try resetting the PMU/SMU and PRAM/NVRAM. You'd need to identify the mode of resetting depending on the model of your G5 iMac. The Apple support sites that would help you for this are –
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1767
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
I hope this solves your problem. -
IMac Disc Utility and Boot Camp Error
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SASThank you for taking the time to reply.
I had tried a Restart but that didn't work.
The 'Mount' was greyed out so couldn't use that.
However, my initial thought to slide the HD out and back in again did work. All back to normal.
It also stopped the warning window which appeared on start up. That's gone too.
One thing this problem has instigated was to give the internal areas of the tower a good hoover out. It was well overdue a clean so some good came out of my 'accident'.
Many thanks
Cheers
SAS -
I need to back up my files and date before erasing my drive, but my time machine backup is not coming up. How do I access my hard drive to back up my files?
A erase of the drive or boot partition is not always necessary.
Flashing question mark at boot could be a easy fix, sometimes it's the firmware that simply forgot what bootable volume to boot from.
Try holding the Option key down while booting the machine, a choice of bootable options appears, select your OS X and boot up.
When you get in, head to System Preferences > Startup disk and set it again new. This will tell the firmware what to boot from. Test it to see.
Now if you don't have a selection of bootable options, it could be that the drive is dead, or OS X is erased or corrupted so it can't boot.
You'll have to run through this list of fixes to see what's going on, if you need a hardware fix or what, I've also included links if you can't fix it and need to recover your data etc.
(If it's not remmebering your boot selection then also run through the list to reset things.)
Step by Step to fix your Mac -
Disc Utility and Repairing Disk
First off: What is the difference between repairing permissions and repairing the disk? I assume permissions has to deal with key chains and repairing the disk?
Anyway... I got an error message when trying to verify my Master HD. This is what the log said:
Verifying volume “MY hard drive”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid extent entry
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
4 %)
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
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MY hard drive
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
anyone have any suggestions? Everything has been working pretty normaly. I had started a thread a few weeks ago about my lacie external HD. It hasn't mounted since I installed the latest security update. Someone had suggested repairing permissions with it disconnected and then re-installing the security update, repairing permissions again and then plugging it in again.
i don't know if the two are related or not... but i'm concerned about this latest development.
thanks for any and all help!The version of Disk Warrior at Amazon you gave a link to is an old version (DW 3.0) for OSX 10.2.1. Unless you really are running that specific version of OSX, I'd look for a version that's closer to your OS version (eg. I assume you're running 10.2.8)
I don't know the version history of DW, so I can't give a specific DW version no., but the current DW 4.0 only runs on Panther or Tiger. Here's the system requirements for DW 4.0.
I'd check out eBay as well to get a version of DW that came out probably about 3 yrs ago (2002-2003) that will handle OSX 10.2.6-10.2.8.
Good luck!
Ed
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What would cause this file to altered or modified in the first place?
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