I couldn't save to an external HD because the clock was set wrong. Why?????
Here's a strange situation.
I wanted to copy files from an eMac (running 10.5.8) to an external drive (WD Elements 2TB). It's a hard drive I normally use on my other computer (iMac), including for Time Machine, with no problems. When I connected the drive to the eMac and tried copying a file to it, it told me there was no space. In fact it told me that the total space on the drive was zero. I did some checking (hooking it back up to the iMac, running Disk Utility) and everything was fine, with 1.5 TB available.
I then noticed that the clock on the eMac said it was the year 1970. I switched off "set Time Automatically" (I wasn't connected to the internet) and set the time manually. Then suddenly the space on the external drive showed up correctly, and everything was fine again.
Any ideas why having the wrong time on the computer would keep a external drive from showing the correct amount of space???
Appears that the eMac's battery is going south. That causes all kinds of issues. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3005 and http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2295 should have what you need.
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