Error message: cannot verify or repair storage
I am having problems with the storage function on my computer. I have a MacBook I bought in 2010 and upgraded with Mac OS Lion last year. I tried using disk utilitiy this afternoon because my computer was running sluggishly. When I tried to verify the disk, the error message "...unable to verify or repair storage" popped up and I can't get any farther. How can I repair or correct this problem?
I was able to do this and verified my disk. Was able to run repair though it didn't need. Thanks for help. Am still going to make an appointment to have it looked at to make sure the partitions aren't corrupted.
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and backup with iTunes from now on
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The electricity in my apartment was abruptly shut down while I was using my imac. After I'd got all the electricity back on, I turn on my mac and found that when I verified the disk in disk utility I got this error message.
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Checking HFS Plus volume.
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Illegal name
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i have a slow macbook, i ran live disk utilities (from hard drive), turned out I needed to repair disk from a installation disk. Did that, I got the volume (Hard drive) repaired from the installation disk disk. To this point, great!
When I reboot from hdd, then run disk utility, I get the same error message i did b4 repair. I went thru two rounds of this.....
Can anyone help? thanksSorry guys, I don't see how to reply to you so I use reply to "me" basically.
So the error I get is "volume header needs minor repair" and then you need to perform repair from the installation disk message.
I did repair not verify from the disk twice. Every time ending in the "the volume had ha been successfully repaired". Then I reboot from the internal disk. Run disk utilities from it, do verify and get the same error message I got before repair. I hope this can shed some light fr you guys. Sorry I didn't include details in the original
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Getting error message Cannot Resolve Symbol when trying to compile a class
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I am getting an error message cannot resolve symbol while trying to compile a java class that calls another java class in the same package. The called class compiles fine, but the calling class generates
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D:\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes\cal>javac
ConnectionPool.java
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^
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symbol : class PooledConnection
location: class cal.ConnectionPool
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^
ConnectionPool.java:144: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class PooledConnection
location: class cal.ConnectionPool
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private boolean inuse = false;
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Now the code for ConnectionPool.java class that gives the cannot
resolve symbol error
package cal;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ConnectionPool {
// JDBC Driver Name
private String driver = null;
// URL of database
private String url = null;
// Initial number of connections.
private int size = 0;
// Username
private String username = new String("");
// Password
private String password = new String("");
// Vector of JDBC Connections
private Vector pool = null;
public ConnectionPool() {
// Set the value of the JDBC Driver
public void setDriver(String value) {
if ( value != null ) {
driver = value;
// Get the value of the JDBC Driver
public String getDriver() {
return driver;
// Set the URL Pointing to the Datasource
public void setURL(String value ) {
if ( value != null ) {
url = value;
// Get the URL Pointing to the Datasource
public String getURL() {
return url;
// Set the initial number of connections
public void setSize(int value) {
if ( value > 1 ) {
size = value;
// Get the initial number of connections
public int getSize() {
return size;
// Set the username
public void setUsername(String value) {
if ( value != null ) {
username = value;
// Get the username
public String getUserName() {
return username;
// Set the password
public void setPassword(String value) {
if ( value != null ) {
password = value;
// Get the password
public String getPassword() {
return password;
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private Connection createConnection() throws Exception {
Connection con = null;
// Create a Connection
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,
username, password);
return con;
// Initialize the pool
public synchronized void initializePool() throws Exception {
// Check our initial values
if ( driver == null ) {
throw new Exception("No Driver Name Specified!");
if ( url == null ) {
throw new Exception("No URL Specified!");
if ( size < 1 ) {
throw new Exception("Pool size is less than 1!");
// Create the Connections
try {
// Load the Driver class file
Class.forName(driver);
// Create Connections based on the size member
for ( int x = 0; x < size; x++ ) {
Connection con = createConnection();
if ( con != null ) {
// Create a PooledConnection to encapsulate the
// real JDBC Connection
PooledConnection pcon = new PooledConnection(con);
// Add the Connection to the pool.
addConnection(pcon);
catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
throw new Exception(e.getMessage());
// Adds the PooledConnection to the pool
private void addConnection(PooledConnection value) {
// If the pool is null, create a new vector
// with the initial size of "size"
if ( pool == null ) {
pool = new Vector(size);
// Add the PooledConnection Object to the vector
pool.addElement(value);
public synchronized void releaseConnection(Connection con) {
// find the PooledConnection Object
for ( int x = 0; x < pool.size(); x++ ) {
PooledConnection pcon =
(PooledConnection)pool.elementAt(x);
// Check for correct Connection
if ( pcon.getConnection() == con ) {
System.err.println("Releasing Connection " + x);
// Set its inuse attribute to false, which
// releases it for use
pcon.setInUse(false);
break;
// Find an available connection
public synchronized Connection getConnection()
throws Exception {
PooledConnection pcon = null;
// find a connection not in use
for ( int x = 0; x < pool.size(); x++ ) {
pcon = (PooledConnection)pool.elementAt(x);
// Check to see if the Connection is in use
if ( pcon.inUse() == false ) {
// Mark it as in use
pcon.setInUse(true);
// return the JDBC Connection stored in the
// PooledConnection object
return pcon.getConnection();
// Could not find a free connection,
// create and add a new one
try {
// Create a new JDBC Connection
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// Create a new PooledConnection, passing it the JDBC
// Connection
pcon = new PooledConnection(con);
// Mark the connection as in use
pcon.setInUse(true);
// Add the new PooledConnection object to the pool
pool.addElement(pcon);
catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
throw new Exception(e.getMessage());
// return the new Connection
return pcon.getConnection();
// When shutting down the pool, you need to first empty it.
public synchronized void emptyPool() {
// Iterate over the entire pool closing the
// JDBC Connections.
for ( int x = 0; x < pool.size(); x++ ) {
System.err.println("Closing JDBC Connection " + x);
PooledConnection pcon =
(PooledConnection)pool.elementAt(x);
// If the PooledConnection is not in use, close it
if ( pcon.inUse() == false ) {
pcon.close();
else {
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// force close.
try {
java.lang.Thread.sleep(30000);
pcon.close();
catch (InterruptedException ie) {
System.err.println(ie.getMessage());
I am using Sun JDK Version 1.3.0_02" and Apache/Tomcat 4.0. Both the calling and the called class are in the same directory.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
tnx..
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