My Disk Utility icon in dock now has a square behind it?

My Disk Utility icon in dock now has a square behind it when it didn't previously. How to correct?

Just drag the Disk Utility icon straight up and off the Dock.
If you want a new Disk Utiity icon in the Dock, go to HD > Applications > Utilities
Launch Disk Utility. Then click and hold the new Dock icon then click Options > Keep in Dock

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Disk Utility not running & disk utility icon changed?

Hello.
I have an 8 month old MB, 2.4 Ghz, 4GB Ram, 160 GB HD, running 10.5.5. I normally do the updated from Apple when the updates come out.
Anyway, I was trying to reformat/erase an external hd; I didn't see the Disk Utility icon on my Dock. I had used Disk Utility before (last time was maybe a month or two ago). Turns out the program is on the dock, but it has a icon (a piece of paper with a pencil, brush and ruler in the shape of an A). I click on it, it jumps once and does nothing. I figure it needs to be reinstalled, but the DVD that came with the computer says I can't install OS X on this computer.
I booted from DVD, ran disk util from there and fixed permissions. still same issue. Also noticed that the Airport Utility now has the same icon (a piece of paper with a pencil, brush and ruler in the shape of an A), but the name is in an Asian language.
Any thoughts on how to get disk utility working and what is going on?
Thanks

Joe from MD wrote:
Hello.
I have an 8 month old MB, 2.4 Ghz, 4GB Ram, 160 GB HD, running 10.5.5. I normally do the updated from Apple when the updates come out.
Anyway, I was trying to reformat/erase an external hd; I didn't see the Disk Utility icon on my Dock. I had used Disk Utility before (last time was maybe a month or two ago). Turns out the program is on the dock, but it has a icon (a piece of paper with a pencil, brush and ruler in the shape of an A). I click on it, it jumps once and does nothing. I figure it needs to be reinstalled, but the DVD that came with the computer says I can't install OS X on this computer.
I booted from DVD, ran disk util from there and fixed permissions. still same issue. Also noticed that the Airport Utility now has the same icon (a piece of paper with a pencil, brush and ruler in the shape of an A), but the name is in an Asian language.
Any thoughts on how to get disk utility working and what is going on?
Thanks
The icon on the dock is not the utility; it is an alias, a link to the actual utility.
Look in your Applications->Utility directory to see if the real Disk Utility is still there or not.
Ditto with Airport Utility. Is the real one still there?
Let us know.
You may have a corrupted preference file or a failing HD.

I cannot open "disk utility". what to do now?

I cannot open "disk utility". what to do now? ( i m not very known with this operation system)

Apple can not do anything about it. If the thief has turned the phone off or wiped it, Find my iPhone will not be able to locate it. There's really nothing you can do beyond what you've done. What you should do is change all your passwords immediately!

HD crash. Disk utility says invalid node structure, invalid record count. Disk utility cannot repair. Now what?

My hard drive crashed. The disk utility says it can not repair. I tried to boot in safe mode but I stopped after 10 minutes. Is that impatient or how long can it take?
I have the installation disk but doesn't that erase everything?

I have never bought a new computer from Apple so I don't know the details of what is covered by the warranty. You can try taking it to the Apple Store and they may have a copy of DW they can run. Or maybe not and they will just wipe the drive and reinstall the OS for you and if you haven't made a backup before they do that then tough luck. I'd check first!
If you buy Diskwarrior on DVD it will boot the computer. I think Apple Stores carry it, but you can also buy it directly from the vendor. I also don't use Lion OS so I don't know the details. You may be able to get their download version and boot from your recovery partition, then run it without a DVD.

My Apps icon in the dock now has a little red '1' in the upper right. Why?

I've clicked on the icon in the dock expecting to see why I have this alert, but nothing is obvious. It's like the email alert you get with Apple Mail.

Good morning, QuickAgPG,
I took a look at the site this morning.   There are some good omens.
It appears that a Snow Leopard compatible version of the Solitaire game will soon be available, if that is the one you are unhappy about.
If it is other than Solitaire, the owner is an ex Apple man and one would have thought, more sympathetic to Apple clients.   When you approached them on their site, what did they say?
One last point.   If this is the Full Deck Solitaire it looks to be a free app from the App Store though I can't find a price if bought direct.
The choice would appear to be ... wait for the Snow Leopard update they write about or buy the new version direct. If the latter you will first have to remove the original app from your computer.   App Cleaner will do that job.
Incidentally, I see you have a second thread elsewhere; not the best policy as it causes confusion.

HT6114 My i-Photo icon on my dock now has a big "x" through it since I upgraded to OS X Mavericks. I have tried to upgrade but cannot find where to do so.

Iphoto has an "x" through it since I upgraded to Mavericks. I need to upgrade but cannot find where to get iphoto app 9.3. I have searched for it at App store.

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I have an icon on my MAC desktop called disk utility. When I click it on it a message says it is not compatible with this version of OS X. Can I then delete this set of files?

I have an icon on my MAC desktop called disk utility. When I click it on it a message says it is not compatible with this version of OS X. Can I then delete this set of files?

gjspross wrote:
I did upgrade and here is the current version: OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
I was able to get to and open disk utility through Application> utilities
I thought the disk utility icon on the desktop may be related to my old software. I was going to move it totrash but it had over 2000 files and so I did know if it was still being used or could be moved to trash.
What kind of files are in there? Sounds like a carry over from your last system. DiskUtility should only be kept in Utilities with a shortcut in the dock or an alias on the desktop, idealy.
Cheers
Pete

Disk utility is gone!

So I went to use disk utility recently and realized that it was no longer there. I started looking through the web for ways to get it back and found all the threads about the disk utility problems for people with mac osx 10.3.9, which i do, when upgrading to the latest itunes. The only problem is, the only problem people seemed to mention was that disk utility wouldn't work properly, I couldn't find any accounts of people losing disk utility completely, nor what one should do in such a case. I searched my hard drive, its just not there to be found. I tried running the powerbook software dvd to no effect, and I tried downloading and installing the upgrade for 10.3.9 again from this site, which seems to have only replaced an incomplete, non-functional portion of the program. There were no downloads for disk utility by itself that I could find on this site. What I need to know is, does anyone know of a way to get back disk utility without reformatting?

There has to be. I checked my 10.3.2 Install disk and it is there. Did anyone follow the "Close the Welcome to Mac OS X window part? You see, when you insert the CD, a Finder Window, titled "Welcome to Mac OS X" appears. You may think so, but this folder is not the root directory of the CD. To get to the root directory, close the Welcome to Mac OS X Finder window that comes up when you insert the CD and doucle-click on the CD icon. It then takes you to the root directory. Now the window will be titled "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" In there, there will be these folders and files:
- Welcome to Mac OS X (See, this screen that comes up is a folder)
- --->Applications<----
- bin
- dev
- etc
- Library
- mach
- mach_kernel
- private
- sbin
- System
- tmp
- usr
- var
- Volumes
In there go to the Applications folder. In the Applications folder, go to the Utilities folder. In there, there will be a Disk Utility application. If all this is too hard, simply search the Install Disk for a folder called Utilities (Go to the "Find" window, Select Specific places for the Search In Property, Check the box next to Mac OS X Install Disk 1---Name is: Utilities). Search for that and it will return with 2 results, then one you are looking for is the 2nd one (The parent directory is Applications).
If this is too hard to follow, you are hopeless.

Semi Functional Disc Drive/Disk Utility Useless

Ok, the other day I got some new DVD-R (memorex)s and tried to burn a copy of a home movie I made onto the DVD-R. Initially, I put in the DVD and began burning the movie, and about half way through the "write" process it cancels out and says "ERROR INCOMPATIBLE DISC", and spits out the DVD. So now, I try again, only now I put in the DVD, in about a second it makes this rough sounding noise, and then spits the DVD out again. The DVD is not misshapen or anything. What I thought was strange was that it was burning CD's fine, and playing regular DVD's with no trouble. Until last night, I put in a real DVD and it just spit it out. Won't accept it. So I check out Disk Utility, and it says that my HARD DRIVE, not my Pioneer disc drive "has reported a fatal hardware error to Disk Utility. If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and then replace it with a working drive." It also labels my "S.M.A.R.T." status, as "failing". My computer is working perfectly besides this DVD-R issue, so I don't see why my hard drive is reporting a fatal hardware error, when it's the disc drive that seems to be having troubles. Any thoughts?

Daryl, Welcome to the discussion area!
This is the discussion area for the iMac G3 CRT.
Is that what you have?
In your system information you list an Intel based iMac. If that is what you are discussing you should post in the Intel based iMac discussion area.

Error uninstalling, and weird disk utility message?

So I installed a keylogging app call type agent and it came with an uninstall terminal command, which I just tried to run. Unfortunately, terminal won't let me run the command, giving me this prompt:
/Library/StartupItems/Type\ Agent/uninst ; exit;
Macintosh:~ Sinemus$ /Library/StartupItems/Type\ Agent/uninst ; exit;
/Library/StartupItems/Type Agent/Type Agent: line 23: kill: (120) - Operation not permitted
I'm the admin, so I don't know why it won't let me uninstall this - what can I do?
Also, when I run disk utility (which takes forever now, btw), I get this:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
What's it mean?

Hello
you do not need any cd to perform a disk repair / check , you need to start in single user mode
restart your mac , just after startup sound hold on , Comande and "S" key on key board togather until fall in comande line interface
type at cursor this
fsck -fy and validate by press enter key
then WAIT until the end of verification / repaire processus ( may take long time ) when cursor appear again
type at cursor
exit and validate by press enter key
HTH
Pierre

Getting "The Application Disk Utility quit unexpectedly"

Hi all. New to the forum.
Went to do my weekly disk Utility this afternoon and it won't open from my applications. Keep getting the error "The Application Disk Utility quit unexpectedly". Now This morning i did allow firefox to do an update, not sure if this has caused some issue. Running 10.5.6 and have been for some time with no issues. I've ran the install disk and ran Utility from there with no problems however there was a ton of stuff it was correcting. Repaired Disk as well. Restarted, tried to pull from applications, again no luck same message. I then ran Safe Boot, Reset PRAM and again still no fix. I removed Firefox, chess and some other game's I've downloaded from the apple site just to be safe. Still nothing. Anyone advise? I'm set up to meet with a Mac Gen. at the local apple store in 2 days. Anyone have any idea's? The only change I have done recently is the firefox update. UGGGG!!!

Have you tried to run Disk Utility from a system Install Disk or start-up from a system install disk and run disk utility from the disk?

Disk Utility Reporting Fatal Hardware Error

Hello all,
I woke up this morning to the flashing folder with a question mark in it on my MacBook. I know that that means the system can't find the OS so I assumed that my hard drive had magically failed overnight. So I turned my computer off and then rebooted and everything loaded properly. I went into Disk Utility and my main hard drive that has OS X on it is highlighted in red and when I click on it, Disk Utility only displays "This drive has reported a fatal hardware error to Disk Utility. If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and then replace it with a working drive."
I have noticed EXTREMELY sluggish performance by my computer in these past two days which has required me to force quit programs and force shut down the system more times than I've had to in the whole time I've had this computer. Could this be a side effect of the failing drive?
I'm backing everything up right now, but I'm wondering how accurate Disk Utility is. The drive that I have in here is a non-Apple-installed 250 GB Western Digital that's been in here for nearly a year. Is it possible that the drive is failing beyond repair already? If so, is there any way to see the full extent of the damage and attempt to repair it before I go out and buy a new hard drive to replace it with?
Thanks for all the help and the fast responses!

Mateo wrote:
Hello all,
I woke up this morning to the flashing folder with a question mark in it on my MacBook. I know that that means the system can't find the OS so I assumed that my hard drive had magically failed overnight. So I turned my computer off and then rebooted and everything loaded properly. I went into Disk Utility and my main hard drive that has OS X on it is highlighted in red and when I click on it, Disk Utility only displays "This drive has reported a fatal hardware error to Disk Utility. If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and then replace it with a working drive."
I have noticed EXTREMELY sluggish performance by my computer in these past two days which has required me to force quit programs and force shut down the system more times than I've had to in the whole time I've had this computer. Could this be a side effect of the failing drive?
yes, it could.
I'm backing everything up right now, but I'm wondering how accurate Disk Utility is. The drive that I have in here is a non-Apple-installed 250 GB Western Digital that's been in here for nearly a year. Is it possible that the drive is failing beyond repair already?
yes, it's quite possible.
If so, is there any way to see the full extent of the damage and attempt to repair it before I go out and buy a new hard drive to replace it with?
check the SMART status in disk utility as suggested. if it says anything but "verified" it means that the drive is expected to fail completely and you shouldn't try to repair it. If it says "verified" It's possible that reformatting will fix it so you can try that. this will wipe all the data on it so clone it off first as gbullman suggested. BTW, most drives come with manufacturers warranty longer than a year and you should be able to replace the drive. that's what I would recommend.
Thanks for all the help and the fast responses!

Leopard and Disk Utility

Since installing Leopard 2 days ago, I find that "Disk Utility" will no longer open. has anyone else come across this problem? Does anyone have any advice on how to correct the problem? I use this frequently in order to carry out repairs to the permissions.
Thanks in advance
Diane

After upgrading to leopard I couldn't open disk utility from utility folder alias in finder, but found I was able to open it in the utility folder in the application stack in the dock. I replaced the utility folder alias in the finder and it opened fine after that... but there seem to be some bugs with disk utility and leopard... i.e. - it's very slow, doesn't show progress bar, and doesn't seem to be actually repairing anything at all. Hope this helps and hope the first leopard update comes soon.

Disk Utility Crashing - Dyld error

This is a FYI for a problem I solved...
Symptoms: Disk utility would crash when opened (crash report below).
Also opening hwmond or emond from terminal resulted in this error:
Referenced from: /usr/sbin/hwmond
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
          /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Ver sions/A/PlatformHardwareManagement: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
Trace/BPT trap: 5
The fix I found was to remove "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework" and restore a fresh copy from OSInstall.mpkg (found within the OS X installer) using Pacifist. I had to resort to this because re-applying the latest OS X combo update didn't fix it. Neither did resetting dyld cache or repair permissions. I'm not sure why the PlatformHardwareManagement framework broke.... But after replacing that framework Disk Utility is launching fine now. I thought I'd post this in case others are googing a similar error. Hope this helps!
Disk Utility crash report (shortened)
Process:         Disk Utility [368]
Path:            /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility
Identifier:      com.apple.DiskUtility
Version:         12 (346)
Build Info:      DiskUtility-346000000000000~225
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [206]
Date/Time:       2011-11-16 13:00:30.331 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X Server 10.7.2 (11C74)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          113 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           35
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      280A4971-2E24-4B18-A5E5-2DB90E5AE1F5
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Versions /A/PlatformHardwareManagement
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ServerFoundation.framework/Versions/A/ServerF oundation
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
          /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Ver sions/A/PlatformHardwareManagement: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
::snip::
Console errors:
11/18/11 10:32:29.642 AM com.apple.emond: dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Versions /A/PlatformHardwareManagement
11/18/11 10:32:29.642 AM com.apple.emond:   Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ServerFoundation.framework/Versions/A/ServerF oundation
11/18/11 10:32:29.642 AM com.apple.emond:   Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
11/18/11 10:32:29.642 AM com.apple.emond:           /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Ver sions/A/PlatformHardwareManagement: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
11/18/11 10:32:30.179 AM com.apple.hwmond: dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Versions /A/PlatformHardwareManagement
11/18/11 10:32:30.179 AM com.apple.hwmond:   Referenced from: /usr/sbin/hwmond
11/18/11 10:32:30.179 AM com.apple.hwmond:   Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
11/18/11 10:32:30.179 AM com.apple.hwmond:           /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PlatformHardwareManagement.framework/Ver sions/A/PlatformHardwareManagement: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
11/18/11 10:32:30.223 AM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.emond[4707]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
11/18/11 10:32:30.223 AM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.emond) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

As Doug has said, & indeed you have tried....you need to run diskutility from the OS install disk. Or more accurately, you need to run diskutility when booted from the install disk.
The following ( from diskutility help) should explain it clearly.
Start up your computer using another disk.
To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc and restart your computer holding down the Option key, then select the Install Mac OS X disc and click the arrow.
Open Disk Utility.
If you're using the Mac OS X Install disk, follow the onscreen instructions until the menu bar appears with the Utilities menu in it., and then choose Utilities > Open Disk Utility.
Select the startup disk in the list of disks and volumes, then click First Aid.
Check the S.M.A.R.T. Status at the bottom of the window. If you can't see it, be sure you selected the hard disk your volume is on, and not the volume itself.
If the S.M.A.R.T. Status is "About to Fail," back up your files on the disk as soon as possible and replace the disk.
If the S.M.A.R.T. Status is "Verified" or "Not supported," click Repair Disk to repair the disk.
If Disk Utility tells you to look for links to corrupt files in the DamagedFiles directory, two or more files occupy the same space on your hard disk and at least one of them is likely to be corrupt. Examine each affected file in the DamagedFiles folder, which at the top-level of the affected disk. If you can replace it or recreate the file, delete it. If it contains necessary information, open it and examine its data to make sure it has not been corrupted.
If Disk Utility reports "The underlying task reported failure," Disk Utility encountered a problem it could not repair. Back up as much of your data as possible, reformat your disk, reinstall Mac OS X, and restore your backed up data.

Different capacity of array in RAID Admin as in Disk Utility

I've an XRAID controlled by XServe PPC with MacOSX 10.3.9.
In Lower Controller I've two arrays:
4x500GB drive=1,4TB RAID5,
2x500GB drive=0,931GB RAID0.
1x500GB drive as HotSpare.
I've expanded RID5 Set with 5th Drive (RAIDAdmin->Advanced->Expansion) - initialization take about 50 hours (but not the time is a problem).
My problem is that - after initialization RAIDAdmin shows that this Array has 1.82TB Capacity but Disk Utility show that this volume has only 1.4TB. I can format this volume, I can partition but I'm limited to this 1.4TB.
I've restarted Controler, restartet whole RAID, restarted ma XServe - but it give nothing. I've also do so: slice'ing and back - merging this Array. The same situation.
What should I do to have the right capacity?

The disk format comes from Disk Utility when you initialize it. When the raw RAID is created it is just raw storage that could be any format. When you create a partition in Hard Disk Utility is when the type of disk is chosen.
Mac OS Extended is HFS+. Unless you're doing disk heavy work like video editing or capture you probably want Journaling. I would stay away from Case sensitivity unless you're specifically working with Unix machines - especially on earlier OS X versions.
I'm a little confused from your post about where you are in the initialization process - it sounds like you've started it already. With 500GB drives expect it to take in the ~30 hours range. If you choose "Use RAID now" you've be able to format and use your during that 30+ hour initialization process but certainly not at anything like full RAID 5 speeds. If you can wait I would wait, but many people use it that way. Once your RAID is ready it should show up as the full size when you go to partition it.
HTH,
=Tod

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