Finder crash with remote disk

Browsing my Time Capsule backup over a very slow (2 MBit) Internet connection,
remotely through "Back to my Mac" causes finder to hang, crash and sometimes restart.

The problem seems fixed now, at least I hope so.
If the live CD did not booted this isn't because of the hard drive but of my NVIDIA Optimus config, adding “acpi=off” as kernel parameter fixed that.
In the live CD I was able to open the LUKS volume, activate the LVM VG and mount the LV without any errors or visible problems (such as lags).
Then I launched a “e2fsck -c -c” on the root LV (after unmouting it, of course); it reported 9 errors (9/0/0). I answered “yes” to all questions of e2fsck.
I had the idea to regenerate the initramfs with mkinitcpio as I remembered I have canceled the last mkinitcpio during the process, maybe it generated a corrupted ramfs?
After rebooting, everything worked normally. But I'm afraid I only have a reprieve, I will still clone my disk while it is still readable.
Last edited by Nock441 (2013-12-27 17:59:12)

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Repair fails, tells me to reformat again
So now not only did I lose my backups and files, the reformat did not fix the disk issue.
Strangest thing is that when I reformatted the drive for Windows on my laptop the drive had no issues loading and using a file recovery program I was able to recover many files I lost in the reformat (despite the directory loss) but no backups. i am about to test the recovered files when they finish being unRARed (I had to compress them to fit on a USB). The disk still runs without any issue on windows.
As I'm using my emergency backup drive (a 3TB Seagate) with Time Machine after this incident I want to know how to prevent a repeat of this incident or a way to make my Iomega usable on my Mac mini again. Currently running OS X 10.8.2.

See if this makes any difference...
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
Try reformatting the external there & see if it verifies/mounts OK.

Remote disk and time machine?

i have my external hard drive attached to my airport extreme and all my computers, mac and windows, play nice and can copy files to and from it but i have partitioned the hard drive to allow for space for time machine to work but time machine wont find it or if it does refuses to use it as a disk. does time machine work with remote disks?

heay,
I had the same issue with an exteral 250Gb USD WD disk....
I found the solution to my issue in the following manner.
1) the disk/partition must be formated "OS X extended" format.
2) you should be able to use you the Disk/Partition with TM while connected directly to the MAC. (this is just to make sure TM works fine.
3) connect the disk to the airport extreme via USB.
4) mount the the disk on the desktop
5) go to TM preferences and change the backup disk to the disk/partition you just mounted.
6) Activate the TM "status info" in the menu bar
7) turn TM "ON" (DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN TM, or you'll have to do the entire procedure from scratch)
8) close the TM preferences.
9) unmount the disk from your desktop (use the the eject button on the shared devices tap in the finder)
10) restart the MAC (you don't need to do this... but this is just to make sure that the disk is unmounted completely)
11) once the boot-up is completed, go to the TM status icon and choose "backup now"
You must make sure that the disk and or partitions you want to use with TM are never mounted before or during the TM process.
As long as the disk/partition is mounted TM will not function.
if you need to use the disk for other purposes than TM wait until TM has done its first run... then you can mount and unmount freely... TM is very sensitive to this "mount" issue.
Note that sometimes TM will fail to funtion... this is not a big problem...
you just need to make sure the disk/partition is unmounted and then run the TM back from the menu bar.
Also note that your first backup will most likely take a very very very very very long time to be completed. just leave the MAC on a make sure it does not fall sleep.
try the above and the let me know if it works or not...
www.gekko-systems.com

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