Problems with second machine

I have an account with creative cloud and have PS CC/PS CC(2014) and LR installed on my Macbook Pro. I have the account also on my Imac. However, when I downloaded the software it shows all the software is only on a 30 day trial. I can not find any way of activating the software on the second machine. What m I doing wrong please.

Thank you but there is nothing there that resolves my problem. The T&C states that the my applications can be used on two machines. I installed Creative Cloud on both my machines but my subscription, which I have signed in to on both machines, does not seem to recognise that I should be entitled. As far as I remember I did not have to activate the software on the Laptop. If my monthly account is paid up, as it is, then I should have full access on both machines.

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Another problem with Time Machine

This is the second time I have experienced the following problem with Time Machine. After 2 months of backups it gets to a point where backups fail and I cannot enter time machine. In each instance I have only used 110GB of the 500GB space.
Is there a better solution to fixing this problem than deleting the sparsebundle? That seems to be the only way to get it to back up again.

backup is failing again:
Oct 28 08:39:58 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8307]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 08:40:02 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8307]: FSMatchAliasBulk returned 0 while resolving alias to backup target
Oct 28 08:40:07 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8307]: Backup failed with error: 19
Oct 28 09:22:57 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 09:22:58 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Network mountpoint /Volumes/MPTC not owned by backupd... remounting
Oct 28 09:22:59 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/MPTC-1
Oct 28 09:22:59 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Oct 28 09:23:28 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Disk image /Volumes/MPTC-1/MBA_001f5bd2c764.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of MBA
Oct 28 09:23:32 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb
Oct 28 09:23:32 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Oct 28 09:25:44 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 242.1 MB requested (including padding), 351.94 GB available
Oct 28 09:41:34 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Copied 990 files (72.4 MB) from volume MacBook Air HD.
Oct 28 09:41:35 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 159.6 MB requested (including padding), 351.94 GB available
Oct 28 09:44:09 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed.
Oct 28 09:46:13 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Copied 879 files (2.2 MB) from volume MacBook Air HD.
Oct 28 09:47:18 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Starting post-backup thinning
Oct 28 09:49:15 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb/MBA/2008-10-27-090710: 351.94 GB now available
Oct 28 09:50:46 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb/MBA/2008-10-27-061332: 351.94 GB now available
Oct 28 09:52:53 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb/MBA/2008-10-27-050805: 351.94 GB now available
Oct 28 09:52:53 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Post-back up thinning complete: 3 expired backups removed
Oct 28 09:52:53 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Backup completed successfully.
Oct 28 09:53:11 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Attempt to eject diskimage failed with status: -47, dissenting pid: 0
Oct 28 10:23:16 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 10:23:19 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/MPTC-1
Oct 28 10:23:27 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Disk image /Volumes/MPTC-1/MBA_001f5bd2c764.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of MBA
Oct 28 10:23:27 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb
Oct 28 10:23:28 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Error: (-50) Creating directory 2008-10-28-102328.inProgress
Oct 28 10:23:28 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Failed to make snapshot container.
Oct 28 10:23:33 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Backup failed with error: 2
Oct 28 10:23:33 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8603]: Attempt to eject diskimage failed with status: -47, dissenting pid: 0
Oct 28 11:23:16 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 11:23:16 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/MPTC-1
Oct 28 11:23:20 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Disk image /Volumes/MPTC-1/MBA_001f5bd2c764.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of MBA
Oct 28 11:23:20 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb
Oct 28 11:23:21 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Error: (-50) Creating directory 2008-10-28-112321.inProgress
Oct 28 11:23:21 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Failed to make snapshot container.
Oct 28 11:23:26 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Backup failed with error: 2
Oct 28 11:23:26 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Attempt to eject diskimage failed with status: -47, dissenting pid: 0
Oct 28 11:24:05 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8729]: Stopping backupd to allow ejection of backup destination disk!
Oct 28 11:24:11 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Backup requested by user
Oct 28 11:24:11 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Starting standard backup
Oct 28 11:24:11 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Network volume mounted at: /Volumes/MPTC-1
Oct 28 11:24:12 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Disk image /Volumes/MPTC-1/MBA_001f5bd2c764.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of MBA
Oct 28 11:24:12 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb
Oct 28 11:24:12 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Error: (-50) Creating directory 2008-10-28-112412.inProgress
Oct 28 11:24:12 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Failed to make snapshot container.
Oct 28 11:24:17 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Backup failed with error: 2
Oct 28 11:24:17 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8747]: Attempt to eject diskimage failed with status: -47, dissenting pid: 0

HT1338 problems with time machine and parallels desktop, mac osx mountain lion 10.8

have a good day, i have been problems with time machine and parallels desktop, dont work in mac osx 10.8, i upgrate two mac´s (macbook air, imac), in the two machines shows problems, could you help me please.
two machines have good ram memory (macbook air 11.1 2010 early , imac 2009 late).
i am waiting for your help.
thanks.
Jesus.

Take a look here:
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Specifically, you'll probably want to try item #A5 on that page, but there's a lot of other info there that may be useful.

I am having problems with Time Machine and having enough space to finish my last back up.

I am having problems with Time Machine and having enough space to finish my last back up.

Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

[SOLVED] Problem with second SATA drive

My laptop has two hard drive bays, and just recently I added a second SATA drive (moved it from my old laptop) to the extra bay.
Now, anytime the second hard drive /dev/sdb has any heavy disk activity, it appears to cause a shutdown of the SATA port for the first drive (/dev/sda)! Though the second drive is still fine, and I can still write to it until the system crashes from the root drive (on /dev/sda) being shutdown.
If I don't mount and use the second drive, the first drive works just fine, and I can pound it with traffic without issue.
I can reproduce this problem by copying large amounts of data to drive 2.
This is when I get in my dmesg when the first SATA drive shuts down:
[ 3013.249525] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 3013.249532] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249539] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:78:b8:ba/00:00:24:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[ 3013.249539] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249543] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249545] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249559] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:08:b8:60:7b/00:00:29:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249559] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249562] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249564] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249568] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:10:c0:60:7b/00:00:29:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249568] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249570] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249572] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249576] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:18:c8:60:7b/00:00:29:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249576] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249578] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249580] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249585] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:20:48:12:d7/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 4 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249585] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249587] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249589] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249593] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:28:28:63:38/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 5 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249593] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249595] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249597] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249601] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:30:28:6f:38/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 6 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249601] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249603] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249605] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249609] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:38:28:98:ae/00:00:25:00:00/40 tag 7 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249609] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249611] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249613] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249617] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:40:d8:79:3b/00:00:25:00:00/40 tag 8 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249617] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249619] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249621] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249625] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:48:08:98:b6/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 9 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249625] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249627] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249629] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3013.249633] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:50:10:98:36/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 10 ncq 4096 out
[ 3013.249633] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3013.249636] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3013.249640] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 3013.575549] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 3013.576784] ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04)
[ 3013.578334] ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04)
[ 3013.578588] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 3013.592223] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592233] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592238] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592242] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592246] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592250] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592254] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592258] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592263] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592267] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592271] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3013.592302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592306] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592310] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592313] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592320] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592323] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592342] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592351] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592353] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592358] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592361] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 24 ba b8 78 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592376] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 616216696
[ 3013.592414] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592417] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592423] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592428] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592431] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592449] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592458] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592460] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592465] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592467] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 29 7b 60 b8 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592482] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 695951544
[ 3013.592505] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592508] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592512] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592514] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592519] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592522] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592540] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592549] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592551] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592556] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592558] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 29 7b 60 c0 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592572] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 695951552
[ 3013.592583] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592586] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592589] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592592] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592597] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592599] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592618] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592626] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592628] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592632] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592635] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 29 7b 60 c8 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592649] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 695951560
[ 3013.592665] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592668] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592671] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592673] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592678] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592684] Aborting journal on device dm-0-8.
[ 3013.592701] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4476: Journal has aborted
[ 3013.592687] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592723] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592729] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592730] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592733] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592735] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 18 d7 12 48 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592744] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 416748104
[ 3013.592752] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 266057
[ 3013.592760] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 5902184 (offset 258048 size 4096 starting block 266057)
[ 3013.592766] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592768] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592771] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592772] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592776] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592778] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592790] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592795] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592797] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592800] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592801] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 19 38 63 28 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592811] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 423125800
[ 3013.592817] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1063269
[ 3013.592822] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 5898577 (offset 970752 size 4096 starting block 1063269)
[ 3013.592842] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592845] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592849] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592851] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592856] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592859] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592877] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592885] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592887] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592892] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592894] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 19 38 6f 28 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592908] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 423128872
[ 3013.592915] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1063653
[ 3013.592922] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 5902187 (offset 1171456 size 4096 starting block 1063653)
[ 3013.592931] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592934] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.592937] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592940] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.592945] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.592947] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592966] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.592974] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.592976] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.592980] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.592983] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 25 ae 98 28 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.592997] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 632199208
[ 3013.593006] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 27197445
[ 3013.593018] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 6425165 (offset 151552 size 4096 starting block 27197445)
[ 3013.593028] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593031] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.593034] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593037] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.593042] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.593045] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.593063] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.593071] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593073] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.593078] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.593085] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4476: Journal has aborted
[ 3013.593089] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 25 3b 79 d8 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.593104] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 624654808
[ 3013.593111] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 26254395
[ 3013.593115] lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
[ 3013.593126] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593129] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.593132] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593135] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.593140] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.593142] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.593161] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.593169] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593171] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.593175] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.593178] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 18 b6 98 08 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.593192] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 414619656
[ 3013.593198] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1
[ 3013.593201] lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
[ 3013.593211] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593213] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3013.593217] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593219] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3013.593224] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3013.593227] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.593245] 00 00 00 00
[ 3013.593253] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3013.593256] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3013.593260] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3013.593262] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 19 36 98 10 00 00 08 00
[ 3013.593277] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 423008272
[ 3013.593283] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1048578
[ 3013.593286] lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
[ 3013.593298] ata1: EH complete
[ 3013.595707] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_dirty_inode:4603: Journal has aborted
[ 3013.596581] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_journal_start_sb:370: Detected aborted journal
[ 3013.596591] EXT4-fs (dm-0): Remounting filesystem read-only
[ 3020.421558] journal commit I/O error
[ 3020.421570] journal commit I/O error
[ 3020.421574] journal commit I/O error
[ 3020.421578] journal commit I/O error
[ 3020.421581] journal commit I/O error
[ 3147.052191] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xf SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 3147.052197] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3147.052209] ata1.00: cmd 60/50:00:d0:48:99/00:00:1c:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 40960 in
[ 3147.052209] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3147.052212] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3147.052213] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3147.052218] ata1.00: cmd 60/18:08:28:49:99/00:00:1c:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 12288 in
[ 3147.052218] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3147.052220] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3147.052221] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3147.052226] ata1.00: cmd 60/88:10:48:49:99/00:00:1c:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 69632 in
[ 3147.052226] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3147.052228] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3147.052229] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 3147.052234] ata1.00: cmd 60/20:18:00:a4:ba/00:00:24:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 16384 in
[ 3147.052234] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 3147.052236] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 3147.052239] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 3147.378368] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 3148.066853] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/5a:00:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
[ 3148.069139] ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04)
[ 3148.069393] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 3148.080059] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3148.080066] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3148.080071] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3148.080075] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
[ 3148.080112] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080114] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3148.080117] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080118] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3148.080123] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3148.080125] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080136] 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080140] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080142] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3148.080145] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3148.080146] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 1c 99 48 d0 00 00 50 00
[ 3148.080156] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 479807696
[ 3148.080170] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080171] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3148.080173] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080175] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3148.080178] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3148.080180] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080190] 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080195] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080196] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3148.080199] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3148.080200] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 1c 99 49 28 00 00 18 00
[ 3148.080209] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 479807784
[ 3148.080216] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080218] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3148.080220] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080221] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3148.080224] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3148.080225] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080236] 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080241] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080242] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3148.080245] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3148.080246] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 1c 99 49 48 00 00 88 00
[ 3148.080254] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 479807816
[ 3148.080267] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080268] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[ 3148.080270] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080272] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
[ 3148.080274] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 3148.080276] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080287] 00 00 00 00
[ 3148.080291] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
[ 3148.080293] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
[ 3148.080295] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
[ 3148.080296] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 24 ba a4 00 00 00 20 00
[ 3148.080305] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 616211456
[ 3148.080315] ata1: EH complete
I have experimented, and found that if I turn off NCQ on the kernel command line in my bootloader (libata.force=noncq), that it takes longer before the problem occurs. Though, if I write enough to the second drive, it does still happen after a while, just greatly reduced its chances of happening.
Is it possible that the old drive (sdb) is causing the problem? I noticed that it is much noisier than I remember when the drive head moves around.
Another curiosity while I was trying to duplicate the problem:
- I start a large file copy from sda -> sdb
- At the same time in another terminal, I do "find / -print"
- When I hear the drive 2 head moving, it pauses the output of the "find" command.
Every time I hear the head move, I see the find output pause. Its almost like the drive seek on drive 2 causes the whole Sata controller to pause while the head moves. Very odd!
Anyone have any ideas? I think the next thing I will try is borrow a drive from another machine, and do the big write to it to see if I get the same results.
If it is of any help, here is some more info on the laptop:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1251 (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
0d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 5e)
13:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
13:00.1 SD Host controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
19:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
cat /proc/interrupts:
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
0: 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 958 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 1675 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 12257 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
16: 24769 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, mmc0, nvidia
17: 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hda_intel
19: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi rts_pstor
23: 1937 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4
41: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
42: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
43: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
44: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
45: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
46: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
47: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
48: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
49: 19406 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge iwlwifi
50: 36099 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
51: 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge mei
52: 386378 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel
53: 56803 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
NMI: 34 5 19 5 18 4 13 4 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 77964 17705 161241 14302 187823 16150 56845 12750 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 34 5 19 5 18 4 13 4 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
RTR: 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries
RES: 13721 7023 304 110 175 110 213 123 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 6941 7677 2774 7670 5804 7568 7655 7673 Function call interrupts
TLB: 366 545 268 179 310 272 212 166 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.5.3-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST9500423AS
Serial Number: 5WS354LM
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 044bb741b
Firmware Version: 0005DEM1
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Thu Sep 13 15:26:14 2012 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 105) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 3) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 113 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 54715920
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 085 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 1114
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 069 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 10214892
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2030
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 559
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 8590065667
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 053 049 045 Old_age Always - 47 (Min/Max 47/51)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 871
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 039 039 000 Old_age Always - 122293
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 047 051 000 Old_age Always - 47 (0 17 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 113 099 000 Old_age Always - 54715920
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 67229123085518
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1947733828
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2798982459
254 Free_Fall_Sensor 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 899
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 8 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 8 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0 Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:21:04.438 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:21:04.438 IDENTIFY DEVICE
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:21:04.124 NOP [Abort queued commands]
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
Error 7 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:21:04.438 IDENTIFY DEVICE
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:21:04.124 NOP [Abort queued commands]
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:20:58.805 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 6 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0 Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:20:58.805 NOP [Abort queued commands]
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.761 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.725 IDENTIFY DEVICE
Error 5 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:20:58.805 NOP [Abort queued commands]
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.761 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.725 IDENTIFY DEVICE
2f 00 01 10 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.724 READ LOG EXT
Error 4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0 Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.761 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.725 IDENTIFY DEVICE
2f 00 01 10 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.724 READ LOG EXT
61 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 05:20:58.724 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
61 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 05:20:58.724 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 6 -
# 2 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 1 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
smartctl --all /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.5.3-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint M6
Device Model: SAMSUNG HM320JI
Serial Number: S16LJF0QB02815
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0f0000 001202815
Firmware Version: 2SS00_01
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
Local Time is: Thu Sep 13 15:27:10 2012 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 110) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 110) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 252 252 025 Pre-fail Always - 2562
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 810
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 252 252 015 Old_age Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 4842
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 440
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 154
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 71
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 073 073 000 Old_age Always - 55 (Min/Max 17/55)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0036 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 534
225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 077 077 000 Old_age Always - 236803
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
Note: selective self-test log revision number (0) not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Last edited by johni (2012-09-16 00:46:54)

It appears my drive one really is failing. It was the first drive and not the second making the loud head seek sound. I borrowed another drive from a friend, and copied my drive one to it. No problems with the new drive in place.

Problems with Time Machine backup for two machines to one external drive

I have a brand new WD 500GB USB My Book external drive plugged into my Intel Mac Mini running 10.5.1 to use as a TM backup drive (TM reformatted it to HFS+ journaled). The Mini's connected by ethernet to the Airport Extreme. It works great. I setup my wife's MacBook Pro 17" Dual Core 2 w. 10.5.1 for TM using the Mac Mini's TM backup drive and it works fine (a little slower at 811.n wi-fi speeds, but OK). I have the Mac Mini setup in Energy Saver to shut down at night and restart in the morning. The morning after I setup my wife's MacBook Pro for TM I found a big black & white message (in half a dozen languages) on the Mac Mini saying start up failed and I need to reboot using the power button. I did and everything was cool. Now comes the problem, it's done it three days in a row so it looks like there is a problem with the TM setup. It didn't do this before I setup my wife's computer for TM.
Any thoughts on what is causing this? We've had minimal problems with Leopard setup (short of a brief hunt for an Airport Extreme Drive and a couple of network printers during initial setup).

1 mistake @ a time wrote:
I works fine over a network if the TM drive is attached to another Mac running Leopard. It won't work with an Airport drive (Apple deep sixed that feature in the final release).
We have an Airport Extreme base station, and we plan to add an Airport Express to boost the power to reach the second floor. We are ordering 4 iMacs, 20", plus I have the Macbook 13" that I have had for a few months.
We thought we could connect one large external drive via firewire cable to one of the iMacs and use it to back up all five computers via Time Machine.
Is that possible, or does everybody need their own external drive?
Thanks!
susan

Problem with Time Machine, running Snow Leopard

Hi all,
Last week I had a new hard drive fitted into my iMac 8,1, after which Snow Leopard was reloaded (10.6.3 from the disc, updated to 10.6.8), followed by the restoration of data via Time Machine from my external hard drive. Whilst my Mac is now running beautifully, I am having problems backing up with Time Machine.
When I run a backup, it prepares about 100,000 items, then starts to backup, usually about 650mb. It crawls along in kb until it gets to about 1mb, then jumps quickly to the end, but then it adds extra mb on the end. Then it suddenly starts again "preparing x items....." and off it goes again.
I have tried repairing the backup disc, and it appears to be ok. I even erased it and started again. Time Machine did a full backup (139gb) in about 2 hours, then immediately added another 640mb at the end - strange, but I do at least have a full backup from yesterday. But now, everytime I run backup, it looks for the same sort of figure (650-700mb) and then goes round in circles.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks, David

Hi Eric
Thank you for your reply. Here are the screenshots for each change:
Having prepared about 95,000 items, the backup of 612mb begins
14 minutes later a message appears
Another 3 minutes and another message. You will see from this screenshot that the backup figure has changed to 613.1mb
Another 30 seconds and it all begins again....
And finally, 7 more minutes pass, another 96,000 items are prepared, and another 604.8mb backup begins.
I might add, that between posting this morning, and your reply, I also went into disk utility, chose the top leve of the external drive, clicked on the partition tab, charged current to 1 partition, renamed the drive, erased it, and did a full back up of 139GB. After 137GB it started again, looked for 602mb, backed them up and finished the backup, which is why TM states that the last back up was at 18:16 today.
Thanks again
David

Problems with second hard drive

I bought my PowerMac G5 new in 2005 and about two years after I got it, I installed a second internal hard drive. I didn't have any problems with the drive until about six months ago (which was when I moved, but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it). Around that point, I started hearing a single, loud click followed by a slight winding down noise. Then, my computer would almost completely freeze. After a few moments, I would hear a bunch of soft clicks and my computer would go back to normal. I figured that it was a problem with one of the hard drives, but I wasn't sure what to do.
Later on, the problem got more severe, lasting more like 30 seconds. When my second drive unmounted during one of these episodes, I shut my computer down, opened the case, took both plugs out of the second hard drive, put them back in, and started up my computer again. After that, my computer was running great again. But, a few weeks later, the symptoms started up again.
So, I've gone through the same cable un-plug and re-plug process whenever the drive unmounts. Sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't seem to help at all. Altogether, I think that the second drive has unmounted about five or six times. I haven't had this problem at all with the original hard drive and I haven't noticed any other problems with my computer. (Well, okay, there's the rare occasion when, instead of going to sleep, it turns the screen black and puts the fans on full blast.)
Could the drive itself be going bad and it has nothing to do with the cables? I have a utility installed that always monitors the SMART status and it hasn't reported any problems. Are there any other troubleshooting steps I should take? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Before I bought DiskWarrior, I thought I'd try some troubleshooting with the software I have on hand. But while I was doing that, the problem got worse. Now, I'm having major problems just getting the computer to boot. I'll give you the rundown on what's happened. It goes through a few boneheaded twists and turns and goes on at great length, but I thought I'd relate it all in the hopes that someone can see a likely pattern.
My first thought was the Apple hardware test, which I had thought was on the Mac OS 10.5 install DVD. So naturally, I didn't see the hardware test listed under Utilities. But while I had it up, I used Disk Utility to do repairs on both hard drives (checking both the disk and permissions). It found no problems on the 2nd hard drive, but found a few errors with "leaves" on the booting drive. It also found a bunch of issues with the permissions, but I don't think it was anything out of the ordinary.
Just for the heck of it, I asked it to run the repairs again. Not long into that, I got what I think is a kernel panic (overlaid message saying I needed to restart my computer in a few languages). It also sped up the fans.
I pushed the power button to shut it down, then started it up again. I heard the startup chime, then nothing but a black screen and the ol' hyperactive fans. I went through that several times before I was finally able to boot from the DVD again. Then, I changed the startup disk back to my usual boot volume and restarted. I had to go through the black screen and insane fans several more times before I could boot normally.
Next, I thought I'd try OnyX to see what it could do. Which might not be much, but I had it repair the disks again and also had it run the daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts.
I checked into the black screen & hyperactive fans booting problem elsewhere in the forums, and saw that it was recommended to run the Apple hardware test and also found the correct procedure for doing so, which was to insert the PowerMac G5 install disc (not the Mac OS X upgrade DVD) and press Option when booting. I loaded the disc, restarted, and held down the Option key, but before I could get anything to actually load, I had several more sessions with the black screen of fans.
Regarding that boot problem, I've sometimes seen the red light inside the case turn on almost immediately after I turn on the computer. Other times, it will not light up by itself. But, when I hold the power button in to shut it down, the red light briefly turns on before the unit shuts down. I've also noticed that the light on the Caps Lock button is coming on and staying on when I'm trying to start the computer.
So, after several tries, I checked my G5 User's Guide and it said to disconnect any external devices before trying the hardware test. I had a USB thumb drive plugged in and a FireWire drive hooked up for Time Machine backups, so I took both of them out. Once again, I tried starting up with Option held down and this time, it worked. The fans started running at full blast after I selected the hardware test, which I hoped was normal. So, I asked it to run the extended test and it found no problems. I restarted my computer without reconnecting anything and, at least for now, it's working normally.
Any new thoughts?

Problems with second (admin) user profile

Hi all,
I'm having trouble with a certain user profile. I got a new MacMini with Lion (10.7), to which I imported two user profiles from a Time Machine backup of a Snow Leopard system. The first profile, which used to be the admin profile on the old Mac, works just fine. But the second profile, which used to be a "normal" user profile encounters massive problems. First thing I did was to make the second user admin as well, but that did not fix anything. I assume there is a problem with the permissions and "repair permissions" didn't do anything either.
Here are some examples of the issues:
First example: I cannot delete or rename folders in Mail, unless I delete or rename them in the respective ~/Library folder. This concerns folders which I imported from the Time Machine backup. There are no issues with new folders.
Second example: I cannot start SPSS, which runs just fine on the other profile. It starts and then just closes right away without any error message or anything. I found a workaround which is to start the program with a rooted terminal command ("sudo /Applications/..."). There is no problem with Java (which would be common) and there are no license issues. I found an article in some other forum which stated that SPSS reads and writes in its preference folder at startup and closes right away if permissions are denied for that folder.
Third and most annoying example: I cannot permanently delete or create icons in the dock. I can remove or create icons temporarily, but after restarting the Mac, the new icons are gone and the deleted items are right back where they were.
Does anybody have any idea on how to fix this?
In the short run, It'd be very helpful if anyone could tell me how to create dock icons with a Terminal command.
I thank you in advanced for helping me out. Every little hint is appreciated.
Sebastian
PS: I have not tried to setup a new user profile instead of the second profile, yet. With all the programs and preferences that would take at least two days and I need to keep the Mac running. I would only do it as a very last resort.

Well i went ahead and made that new admin like you said and I set it up and transfered only the files that I thought were important to me, Then i went ahead and fixed or repaired the permissions On the new admin user name and deleted my other admin profile with the key board issue.I fixed the permmissions with an OSX Lion boot disk instead of lion because I don't have the Mountain lion DVD anymore. Every thing seems ok but was that a smart move or will that come back to haunt me?
Now what Im worried about now is I didnt keep any of the certificates or anything in that nature, So My final question is What should i do now to hands down lagitimanetly make This the offical ADmin with all keys and things of that nature that make it the main one?
Thank you so much and I'll watch my jokes from now on... I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings,

Problems with Time machine caused by removing PKCS11.log?

I haven't yet found a solution to my Time Machine no longer backing up: "while an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk"
I requested help before, but so far nobody could help me solve this problem!
I noticed that I removed, in a file clean up, a log file: PKCS11.log."
I still have this file in the Trash but can not restore this file from Trash to its original location because I don't know its original location. The command" restore", or "put back" does not figure in the menu of Trash.
It can be that the removal of this log file causes the back up problem in Time Machine?
As you will notice from the above, I know very little about software and subjects like this and hope that somebody can help me to get Time Machine backing up again.
Thanks on beforehand!
Harry

I am sorry that my message is presented in this "step-by-step way, but it can be that the following lessage from TM Buddy Widget is important?
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Harry%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Harry%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Harry Briels’s iMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 8.22 GB requested (including padding), 464.29 GB available
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HarryBrielsiMac/2013-07-04-181224.inProgress/46F8E230- 1335-4D3C-BA4F-E6A4B2AB0C07/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db
Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Stopping backup.
Copied 86 files (266.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Harry

Problem with Time Machine back up

Hello all,
Grateful for anyone's help with this issue.
Firstly, a summary of specs:
Mac OS X 10.7.
Late 2007 Macbook 13inch
External hard drive - LaCie 1TB D2 Quaddra
Issue - When trying to back up my 2007 Macbook it fails! When I back up my 2011 MacBook Pro (to the same external hard disk) it works fine!
I have reviewed a whole load of advice on here, some I am able to understand others that I unable too! Sorry! Now stuck so thought I would post on here in the hope sometime might be able to give me some advice.
I have downloaded a widget which helped me view the error message details (found that advice on the excellent Pondini website).
The error message was:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.2 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.65 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/560DC4C6-DFCE-48AA-B430-457C461AEA0F/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS
Copied 9 files (774 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
To be honest this is pretty much gooblygook to me! But I did try to locate the file that was causing the problem (Address Book) and excluded it from the Time Machine backup, I then received this error message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.62 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/adidas miCoach Manager.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/QtCore to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/65EE1FE8-D548-4CAD-AEC7-9B6A4C12FAD9/Macin tosh HD/Applications/adidas miCoach Manager.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4
Copied 12 files (2.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
So I then excluded miCoach, but it failed again! This time with this message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.59 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe Flash Player 9/Install Flash Player 9 UB.app/Contents/InstallerData/Installer.data to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/B7A9D12A-B391-4AD7-907D-01828917DF39/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Adobe Flash Player 9/Install Flash Player 9 UB.app/Contents/InstallerData
So I excluded Adobe Flash Player, and....failed again, this time blaming the Calculator
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.59 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources/Calculator.icns to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/60CC7EAA-FCE7-4FC3-B946-8B999E574797/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources
Copied 2760 files (27.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
The way this is going I will not have any information left to back up!!
Any advice warmly received.
Merry Christmas

miketangokilo wrote:
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Steel String Acoustic Guitar/50B-1GA1-B2.aif to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike Surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/8614198B-1C54-4CF1-8C24-DDD9692FB82C/Macin tosh HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Steel String Acoustic Guitar
We don't know exactly what error (-47) means. Apple used to publish lists of error code, many years ago, before OSX, but very few now. It's clearly something to do with the file named, but just what isn't clear.
But we do know that SrcErr:NO means the error is not on the "source" -- ie, your Mac. It seems to be a problem writing the file to the TM drive.
So first, if you haven't yet, run Repair Disk on that TM partition, just to be sure it's ok.
Also, be sure the disk has either the GUID (preferred) or APM partition map scheme. Click the top line in Disk Utility's sidebar, and that will be shown at the lower right. If it's MBR (Master Boot Record), that's a Windows setup, and sometimes doesn't work well with Time Machine, especially if there are multiple partitions.
Prior to OSX, error -47 meant the file was busy. If that's still true, something may be trying to access it while it's being written. If you're running any anti-virus apps on that Mac, or anything else that might be looking at the backup drive, exclude the TM drive from it, or, better, turn it off. Antivirus apps can interfere with TM backups -- some can even damage them.

Back up problems with Time Machine since I have Mavericks

Since I upgrade to Mavericks Time Machine is not able to back up my MacBookPro.
Not only it is slow but it never ends.
Each time it seems to reach the end of the back up 150 or 200 mb are added to the amount to be saved.
Without end.
Before Maevroicks I had Montain Lion and it was fine.
With my iMac I have no probleme with Mavericks ????

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message that corresponds to an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showning, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste (command-V) into a reply to this message.
If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — anonymize before posting.

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That's the thing, Steve. Using the secondary monitor for playback, it should not be able to show any part of the desktop at any time. It should show only black if nothing is playing, or it should show what is playing in one of Premiere Pro's monitors. But never the desktop.

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Problems with Time Machine restore

Hi - am hoping someone can help me.
My laptop got stolen last week and I bought a new one yesterday. The old one was kind of messy - I'd had it for a while and had been living with some weird error messages and that sort of thing - so I only wanted to transfer certain files - photos, music, movies and a few documents - to the new one from Time Machine via an external hard drive.
I set up as a new user and chose to use Migration Assistant to transfer the files afterwards. It seemed to work fine but on closer inspection no files created after 2008 (ie any new music or photos) transferred. It's the photos I'm mostly worried about as I used Senuti on my iPod to recover the music and the video files were saved to the same external hard drive Time Machine was using but seem to be accessible. When I 'browse other Time Machine disks' and go into the last backup the Pictures folder has the little red minus/stop symbol on it, so I'm thinking it might be a permissions issue? I've tried restoring that folder but nothing changes.
I'm wondering if I need to go back to migration assistant and start again but transferring everything this time? Will that even make a difference? Am hoping the files aren't lost forever (I'm a mum)!
Please don't tell me how hopeless I am at all this or get narky - I know it and I'm already in a world of misery about the stolen mac and missing pics...

Supermonk61 wrote:
I recently had to do a restore all with time machine. I made sure everything was backed up before hand and ran the Leopard install disk. Went to utilities and did a restore all from time machine backup with no problem. Chose the date I wanted of March 24, 2009 and began running the restore which took about 2 hours. When everything came back up it seemed to have restored no problem but it used one of my backups from a year ago.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Why do you think it restored the wrong backup?

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