EXTERNAL USB Drive will not open with Snow Leopard

External USB drive will open with SL. The drive icon appears on the desktop. When I click on it, Error message, "The alias USB Drive can't be opened because the original item can't be found." When I click on "Fix Alias", a window pops up and shows the usb drive in a list but does not respond when I click on it. I then tried disk utility and tested the disk and it tested OK. The drive still will not open. This problem started after I installed Snow Leopard. Need Help.
Message was edited by: PHAT ROB

The same error is produced when I try to mount a smb share.
I select the "connect to server" (cmd-K). Input the share info "smb://<user>@<server>/<share_path>
At the auth prompt, I input my credentials.
The error pops up, same as original poster.

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External USB drives will not mount under Mountain Lion

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, two external USB2 drives that I have will not mount and cannot be viewed in the Finder. The same occurs on a 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27 and a 2010 MacMini, all running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2.
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I have a lot of time searching forums, but I have not found anyone with an identical problem.
I sure hope someone can help or that Apple come up with a fix for this issue which has only developed since the update to Mountain Lion.

bj10au wrote:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, two external USB2 drives that I have will not mount and cannot be viewed in the Finder. The same occurs on a 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27 and a 2010 MacMini, all running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2.
Both drives are Samsung Story external USB drives (one is 1.5 GB and the other is 2 GB) and both have been formatted using Mac Disk Utility with a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, one using Snow Leopard and the other with Lion.
Both still mount correctly on a friends MacBook Pro that is still running Snow Leopard, and I had no problem with the same drives under Lion. Interestingly both can also be connected to Time Capsule USB port and show up correctly.
Both drives mount correctly under Windows 7 on BootCamp partitions that I have on both the 2012 MacBook Air, a 2009 iMac 27. These BootCamp partitions have Paragon HFS+ installed so I can read Mac formated drives.
Both drives show up in Disk Utility, but when attempt to mount the drives I get the message "The disk could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and retry mounting." I can run Repair in First Aid on the disk and get the message that the volume appears OK, but again have the same problem when I attempt to mount the disk.
I have also tried using Disk Utility 3,2, but still cannot mount the drives, though the program indicates there is no problem with the drives.
I have other portable USB including a Samsung portable USB2 drive, and two external USB3 drives, and I don't have problems with them.
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I have a lot of time searching forums, but I have not found anyone with an identical problem.
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You can start here
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Pete

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*Adobe Contribute* - is working quite well with some lags on closing.
*Adobe Device Central* - Very buggy. - Use Adobe Device Central CS3 if you have it.
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*Adobe Fireworks* - is working quite well with some lags on closing.
*Adobe Flash Professional* - is working quite well with some lags on closing.
*Adobe Illustrator* - is working quite well with some lags on closing.
*Adobe InDesign* - is working quite well with some lags on closing.
*Adobe OnLocation* - is working quite well with some lags on closing.
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6GB 800MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM
1600MHz FSB
Data Path: 64-bit
Address Path: 64-bit
500GB (Startup Disk)
1TB (Bay 2)
512MB GeForce 8800GT
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I initially pulled all peripherals out and pulled the power plug for 5 minutes. I have left the peripherals out and pulled the second monitor as well. I tried pulling the power plug during a few more starts but nothing gets me to a complete start up screen.
I have tried resetting PRAM and VRAM and tried a safe boot. I tried booting from Snow Leopard and my Leopard disk stayed on either a blue or gray screen with spinning beach ball (on gray screen).
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All different kind of start up problems.
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- Some start ups with no sound to gray screen to blue screen to grey screen.
I have no problem wiping the HD1 again but I can't even get the OS disk to be recognized with holding the C key during start up. This last time it went to a blue screen (holding the C key) and a cursor.
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There are lists (MacIntouch and MacFixit) of hardware / software support issues with 10.6. Accelerateyourmac is another place to watch.
There were some really long threads back in Sept about printer driver support.
The 7300 firmware was more about Windows support; those cards are failing and dropping like flies (how DO they know 3 yrs has expired anyway?) and they don't support SL features like OpenCL etc so I'd invest in ATI 4870, best graphic card and works in all models Mac Pro.
Lots and lots of bootable clones for backup. Never need to wipe and install again.

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I have left it sit for a long time in this 'trying-to-boot' mode for a longtime because I know 10.5.1 may restart more than once on initial install. but nothing. I have also tried partitioning the drive into 3 40-80-180GB drives, but still the same behavior.
Any suggestions?

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The Enclosure " Vantec NexStar 3" extrenal USB 2.0 and Firewire. Model NST-360UF-BK
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(this part I have to verify a second time) tried the same enclosure on a G4 . I attached the drive formatted it for a PowerPC install and boot. Installed 10.4.10 but not the latest security updates, JAVA, and QT. It will boot ok from the external FW drive. I next install the latest Updates via the update app in the Systems Preference window. After doing the updates for 10.4.10 it will not boot.
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My external hard drive will not mount with my mac?

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No it does not, sorry that this responds took so long

Noises on external USB audio interface (Yamaha MW12) with Snow Leopard

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+ This had not been from the very first beginning of changing to snow leopard
+ but never appeared on "leopard"
+ Yamaha mixer is still working fine with my MS-windows computer
+ latest Asio driver by Yamaha is not helping.
+ internal audio of my Mac Book Pro is working fine.
As this issue just appears 2 days before, without any change or installation on my system, I really wonder, what could be happen. As Yamaha mixer is still working fine with other computer, I expect some driver in MacOS to be the problem (as internal audio HW is working fine).
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Message was edited by: d-trich

Hi,
just one addon.
+ Changed USB ports on MacBook and it was fine on the second used.
+ Nevertheless, noise remains on the originaly used port
+ all other connected devices as mouse and midi interface are fully functional on both ports
It still looks like a driver issue. Nevertheless, could it be a hardware issue with the USB port in my MacBook then? Even if all other tried devices are functional?
cheers, Mat

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After upgrading to Snow Leopard, my Canon IP4000r printer will not work. I have tried both the Canon Printer Drivers 2.3 (my printer is listed) from Apple and the latest printer driver from Canon. There are multiple problems ... the first thing I noticed is that not all of the printer options are available on the print dialog. When I tried to print, I got "fatal::internal error -9660."
It looks like both drivers I've tried so far are CUPS (which is probably why all of the printer options are not supported).
Anyone have any ideas? Other than buying a new printer ...
nojp.co.canon.bj.print.PrintSettings.BJThrougoutPage..b. media=na-letter PaperInfoIsSuggested..b. pserrorhandler-requested=standard sides=one-sided job-uuid=urn:uuid:f3c1ff27-c401-385e-4a60-d6659c8dcfff job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1289542148 time-at-processing=1289542149 job-impressions=1 com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMTotalSidesImaged..n.=1 com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMTotalBeginPages..n.=1 Duplex=None PageSize=na-letter"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] argv[6]="/private/var/spool/cups/d00005-001"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[1]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/cache"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[3]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/doc/cups"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[4]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[5]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/private/var/spool/cups"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/libexec/cups"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[7]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/private/etc/cups"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[8]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/private/etc/cups"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[9]="HOME=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[10]="PATH=/usr/libexec/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[11]="[email protected]"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[12]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.5"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[13]="TMPDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[14]="USER=root"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[15]="CUPS_SERVER=/private/var/run/cupsd"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[16]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[17]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[18]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[19]="LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[20]="APPLE_LANGUAGE=en-US"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[21]="PPD=/private/etc/cups/ppd/iP4000R_00_00_85_4f_d4_8e.ppd"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[22]="RIPMAXCACHE=8m"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[23]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/pdf"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[24]="DEVICE_URI=file:///dev/null"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[25]="PRINTER_INFO=iP4000R (00.00.85.4f.d4.8e)"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[26]="PRINTER_LOCATION="
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[27]="PRINTER=iP4000R_00_00_85_4f_d4_8e"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[28]="CUPS_FILETYPE=document"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] envp[29]="FINALCONTENT_TYPE=printer/iP4000R__00_00_85_4f_d4_8e"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] Started filter /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/MacOS/PrintJobMgr (PID 4367)
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] JobManager converting file: /private/var/spool/cups/d00005-001 (7 args)
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] PrintJobMgr trying ppc architecture...
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] JobManager converting file: /private/var/spool/cups/d00005-001 (7 args)
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] fatal::internal error -9660
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] End of messages
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] printer-state=3(idle)
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] printer-state-message="/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/ MacOS/PrintJobMgr failed"
D [12/Nov/2010:00:09:10 -0600] [Job 5] printer-state-reasons=none

Liz Gensheimer wrote:
After upgrading to Snow Leopard, my Canon IP4000r printer will not work. I have tried both the Canon Printer Drivers 2.3 (my printer is listed) from Apple and the latest printer driver from Canon.
The driver version provided by Canon is v10.26.x while the update provided by Apple will increase the version to 10.30.3.0. The v10.26 and v10.30 drivers provide all the features that the previous v4.8.3 driver for OS X 10.5 and earlier provided. However the layout for these menus is definitely different.
Also, a lot of user who upgrade from a previous OS X may not realise that the default print dialog is in a minimised view. You need to press the disclosure triangle next to the printer name to get the expanded view.
When I tried to print, I got "fatal::internal error -9660."
I suggest you try a printer reset.
1. Open System Preferences > Print & Fax
2. Move your mouse over the Printers list
3. Hold down the Control button and click the mouse
4. Click "Reset printing system ..."
5. Restart your Mac
This will remove your iP4000R print queue but not the printer drivers. So you will only need to add the queue again.
It looks like both drivers I've tried so far are CUPS (which is probably why all of the printer options are not supported).
Yes they are both CUPS by name as they are both made by Canon. But this is not your issue. If you believe that a particular option is not available then please reply with what that is.

WD 1TB External Hard Drive won't work with Snow Leopard

Hi all,
I recently purchased a Western Digital 1TB External Hard Drive. It came formatted for Windows with NTFS, but I didn't think this was a problem as the packaging stated it could easily be reformatted for Mac OS. To cut a long story short, it couldn't. When I plugged it in to my Mac (iMac 21" i3) and tried to use Disk Utility to reformat it, partition it, whatever, it just wouldn't work always returning some sort of error. I resorted to using a Gparted Live CD and succesfully formated it to HFS+ but yet when I plugged it into my Mac it wouldn't mount the disk. After following advice to let Disk Utility 'Repair' the disk, this is the output:
Verify and Repair volume “external”
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Checking catalog file.
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Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count [In red]
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The volume external was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. [In red]
Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files. [In red]
If anyone knows what this means, and more importantly anything I can do to try and fix this, I would really really appreciate the help!
(Obviously I see it says reformat the disk, but this is easier said than done. Now Gparted crashes when it tries to read it and Disk Utility hangs indefinitely if I try to do anything to it)

asad.a wrote:
I believe the reasons behind this must have something to do with the errors highlighted by the repair process (as copied above)- errors I don't understand.
Disk Utility can't repair NTFS volumes.
If the drive is not seriously damaged ...
Go to Disk Utility
Click on the external Drive (not on the existing partition)
Click on Partition section in Disk Utility
In the Pane under "Current Scheme" highlite the Partition and then click the "-" (minus) sign down left.
Click on the dropdown "Current Scheme" and choose a matching scheme
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