Restore purchase from external drive backup

If I restore a purchase from an external backup drive, will it still update via the app store ?

H Kyle ,
You can check this HP document ,
Restoring the BIOS
This document pertains to all HP Notebook PCs.
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02693833
Wish you all the best !!!
Dindin

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Trying to restore photos from external drive and realized TimeMachine had been turned off. Found in Imac backup folder in iPhoto library a modified folder with many of the missing pics. Can I restore these?

I recently had a hard drive crash on my iMac. After replacing the drive, I discovered that TimeMachine had apparently been turned off for six months, and all my photos from that period were missing after the restore. In looking on the external drive used by TimeMachine, I discovered a folder called Imac backup, and under iPhoto Library was a folder called Originals and subfolders for each year. To my surprise, there were photos covering the missing time period! Somehow I imported the 2011 folder from the external drive into iPhoto, and then I discovered they were small files of less than 100 KB each, not the 1-2 MB original photos. So now all of 2011 is screwed up, not just from May on. These photos also include faces pulled from many larger group photos.
I can get Jan - April restored using TimeMachine. But in continuing to explore the Imac backup folder, I found a similar folder in iPhoto Library called Modified. This folder has many of the missing photos in their original MB size in folders indexed by date for the missing period after April. Is there a way that I can get these modified photos back onto my new hard drive and into the iPhoto library without causing more damage? If TimeMachine was turned off after April, how did those modified photos and all those small images from the missing period find their way to the external drive?
Any wisdom greatly appreciated.

What you want to do is merge the two Libraries? The only way to do this is to use the paid ($20) version of iPhoto Library Manager
I created a new iPhoto Library on the iMac and dragged the entire iPhoto Library from the MacBook into that new Library. It worked, however it all came over into one big album and my previous album structure was gone
Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
Regards
TD

Trying to restore image from external drive

I made a backup image in Windows 7, and stored it on my external WD 500gb My Book. Now, I've loaded the PC from the Recovery Disc, and it doesn't see or recognize my external HD. There's the option to install drivers for the external device, but WD says they don't have the drivers.......they should be included in Windows. Anyone else have this problem?
P.S. The external drive works fine besides this.

Have you made another image backup or scheduled Windows Backup on the external hard drive or the other partition?
You may pay attention to the prompt information when backup.
Keeping different versions of system images
If you're saving your system images on an internal or external drive, or on CDs or DVDs, you can keep several versions of system images. On internal and external hard drives, older system images will be deleted when the drive runs out of space. To help conserve disk space, you can manually delete older system images. For more information, see What backup settings should I use to maximize my disk space?
If you're saving your system images in a network location, you can only keep the most current system image for each computer. System images are saved in the format of drive\WindowsImageBackup\computer name\. If you have an existing system image for a computer and are creating a new one for the same computer, the new system image will overwrite the existing one. If you want to keep the existing system image, you can copy it to a different location before creating the new system image by following these steps:
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Problems playing iTunes purchases from external drive on new computer.

My computer recently died and I had to get a new one. Luckily I had copied all of my iTunes purchases onto an external drive. However, when I connect the external drive to the new computer I can see the purchases but cannot see them in iTunes-I try adding the files in iTunes, but this doesn't work. I have authorised the computer, so it should be able to play the purchases but I have tried dragging them all into iTunes, copying them to the computer but no joy.
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In Windows Explorer, right-click on your media folder and click Properties, then go to the Security tab and click Advanced. If necessary grant your account and SYSTEM full control of this folder, subfolders and files, then tick the option to replace permissions on child objects which will repair permissions throughout the library. This is the XP dialog but Windows 7 shouldn't be too different.
If it won't let you change the permissions use the Owner tab to take ownneship from an account with administror privileges.
tt2

Help restoring library from external disk backup

I recently had to reformat my hard drive, and I backed up my entire "Pictures" folder to the external drive. Is there a simple way to restore my library to my original disk and get all of my data back without having to re-import everything?

Jbooye
Random answer: Perhaps.
It depends on what you want to achieve...
The advantage to a back up utility such as Chronosync or DejaVu is that they will execute incremental back ups - which is quite handy as your library grows. With incrementation, after the first back up (which copies the entire library) the subsequent runs simply update the library with the changes. This is much quicker with large libraries. Also, depending on the app, you can schedule back ups to run automatically.
But at heart, backing up is simply making a copy of the iPhoto Library Folder...
Regards
TD

Restoring itunes from external hard drive

-I used WD backup program to store itunes on external hard drive
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-trying to restore itunes songsa from external drive and when I copied songs from external hard drive to new internal hard drive which has itunes program, only song titles appear and track number for songs I ripped from CDs. All info is present for songs I purchased from itunes (why is there a difference in the way these two are restored???)
-Can I restore itunes from external drive so that artist and album are associated with each song title I ripped from CDs?
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I know MP3 and AAC save tag data, and I believe AIFF does as well (if you want to keep them in full-quality but space-greedy format). I don't think WAV supports tagging which is why they were lost. Read:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9558241&#9558241
This time make sure you have a complete backup of your itunes folder (which, in fact you may still have). That way you can recover your complete library and everything intact (as long as you keep your backups up to date).
Here is a related topic
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9267109&#9267109

Since you can no longer backup to disk, how to restore from external drive without losing all ratings and playlists

since you can no longer backup to disk, how to restore from external drive without losing all ratings and playlists?

My own opinion is that you should install the later appropriate version of Silverkeeper. That said, I would in fact recommend if you can wait a few days for an answer, that you email the La Cie Silverkeeper backup team via the email link on the site at http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/
They are careful to say they are not officially providing a backup service, but when I emailed them with a query regarding usage about a year ago after downloading Silverkeeper for myself, I got a reply within a couple of days that cleared up my question.

HT201250 Circle and cross through iTunes icon afte the seagate hard drive replaced and restored data from time machine backup.

Circle and cross through iTunes icon: had the seagate hard drive replaced and restored data from time machine backup. Why does the iTunes icon have a circle and cross through it? As though incomplete? tried everything and still Circle and cross through iTunes icon.

No it isn't something you'd find on the computer, it has to be custom installed from the 10.6 installer disc or Software Update if it wasn't before. It allows you to use older PowerPC applications on your Mac. On the other hand double check the version of iTunes you have does not require 10.7 minimum either.

How do I restore iTunes library from flash drive backup?

How do I restore iTunes library from flash drive backup?

brigdool wrote:
How do I restore iTunes library from flash drive backup?
HI Brigdool,
It depends how you made the backup.
If you copied your entire iTunes folder onto the flash drive, just copy it back to the appropriate place on the computer.
If you copied individual folders or files, add them back to iTunes by inserting the flash drive in your computer, and then dragging the files into your "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder.
The first method recreates your library as it was, with all playcounts, playlists, etc. The second method builds a new library with the same content.

Cannot copy files to/from external drive

Hi All,
Bit of a cry for help. I run an iMac 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 10.7.3 and I'm having some serious problems with an external drive. Some history first - I have a large iTunes library (~3Tb) of everytype of media which I stored on an external NAS (iomega StorCenter) with no problems - then this NAS started to report a drive error with imminent failure. I purchased a new DAS (Western Digital) drive and moved all my content from the NAS to the DAS and everything was ok. Then I started to get errors through iTunes about cannot find the file and cannot read the files - and then I couldn't access anything on the drive. At this time I thought this was a different problem because I was running preview Mountain Lion, or there was an actual fault with the disk. After investigation, and coughing out for Data Rescue 3 I found that somehow the entire file structure had been corrupted and all my files had been orphaned. So at this point I had one dying NAS drive and one DAS which wasn't usable and no space to recover any files to.
So - next step was to purchase another external drive (and returned the WD) - this time I went for a G-Raid 4Tb (non-thunderbolt) drive and I've been in the process of recovering files from backups and iTunes. I've had no problems until today when yet again I've started getting errors and now I have problems copying files to/from this G-Raid drive.
Technical details - OS-X 10.7.3 - G-Raid 4Tb formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - currently showing 1,163 folders and 15,452 files.
Symptoms - using finder drag and drop copy a file from the g-Raid to desktop results in 'The operation can't be completed because the item 'xxx' is in use. - 'The operation can't be completed because one or more required items can't be found (error code -43).' and the copy fails.
Using the cp command I get a 'Resource Busy' error.
However, this is not for all files - I've managed to copy all my books back to the desktop ok, when a couple came up with the above error I tried again and it copied successfully.
I have run Disk Utility - here are the details :-
- 4TB G-Tech - Verify
Verifying partition map for “G-TECH”
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition’s size
Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
The partition map appears to be OK
Volume (Media) - Verify
Verifying volume “Media”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 24190)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 24784)
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for under-allocation
Checking volume information.
The volume Media was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
Verify and Repair volume “Media”
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Couldn’t unmount disk.
Verify and Repair volume “Media”
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Couldn’t unmount disk.
Verify and Repair volume “Media”
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Couldn’t unmount disk.
Verify and Repair volume “Media”
Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 94)
Checking catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
Rebuilding catalog B-tree.
The volume Media could not be repaired.
Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
and it's just got worse - in getting the info for this post I no longer have access to the drive.
This is the second time this has now happened on two different directly connected drives (USB and Firewire) - which means the problem is elswhere. I've a stack of errors in the system.log file
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** /dev/disk1s1
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: 0 files, 201632 KiB free (403265 clusters)
May 10 17:52:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x7fff799da960): sending attach for device fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
May 10 17:52:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac usbmuxd[29]: _AMDeviceConnectByAddressAndPort (thread 0x100781000): IPv4
May 10 17:52:39 Neil-Cattons-iMac iTunes[747]: _AMDDeviceAttachedCallbackv3 (thread 0x1180fc000): Device 'AMDevice 0x7ffe6d2d04a0 {UDID = f398e56f8aa95276585e0c5f74544bc24dda99bd, device ID = 58, FullServiceName = fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.}' attached.
May 10 17:52:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:52:46: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 10 17:52:46 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _SendDetachNotification (thread 0x7fff799da960): sending detach for device fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _BrowseReplyReceivedCallback got bonjour removal.
May 10 17:52:46 Neil-Cattons-iMac iTunes[747]: _AMDDeviceDetached (thread 0x1180fc000): Device 'AMDevice 0x7ffe6d2d04a0 {UDID = f398e56f8aa95276585e0c5f74544bc24dda99bd, device ID = 58, FullServiceName = fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.}' detached.
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in _copyFile:error (2) opening 0.directoryStoreFile
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in recoverIndex:Unrecoverable error: could not recover path index (0.)
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (Normal) DiskStore: Rebuilding index for /Volumes/Media
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoCreate:Tried to create index when index already existed
May 10 17:53:49 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:01: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 10 17:54:01 Neil-Cattons-iMac login[1000]: DEAD_PROCESS: 1000 ttys000
May 10 17:54:05 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:35: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
May 10 17:54:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x7fff799da960): sending attach for device fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
May 10 17:54:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac usbmuxd[29]: _AMDeviceConnectByAddressAndPort (thread 0x100781000): IPv4
May 10 17:54:46 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:50: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in _copyFile:error (2) opening 0.directoryStoreFile
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in recoverIndex:Unrecoverable error: could not recover path index (0.)
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (Normal) DiskStore: Rebuilding index for /Volumes/Media
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoCreate:Tried to create index when index already existed
May 10 17:54:51 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:55: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 238d0016, actual seed is 7fdcc233
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2f760017, actual seed is 1befd79f
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 255a0018, actual seed is 41a7c4c9
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 292e0019, actual seed is 6b68079a
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2263001a, actual seed is 4e6afb66
May 10 17:55:01 Neil-Cattons-iMac kernel[0]:
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** /dev/disk1s1
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: ** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
May 10 17:52:16 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.diskmanagementd[1057]: 0 files, 201632 KiB free (403265 clusters)
May 10 17:52:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x7fff799da960): sending attach for device fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
May 10 17:52:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac usbmuxd[29]: _AMDeviceConnectByAddressAndPort (thread 0x100781000): IPv4
May 10 17:52:39 Neil-Cattons-iMac iTunes[747]: _AMDDeviceAttachedCallbackv3 (thread 0x1180fc000): Device 'AMDevice 0x7ffe6d2d04a0 {UDID = f398e56f8aa95276585e0c5f74544bc24dda99bd, device ID = 58, FullServiceName = fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.}' attached.
May 10 17:52:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:52:46: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 10 17:52:46 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _SendDetachNotification (thread 0x7fff799da960): sending detach for device fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _BrowseReplyReceivedCallback got bonjour removal.
May 10 17:52:46 Neil-Cattons-iMac iTunes[747]: _AMDDeviceDetached (thread 0x1180fc000): Device 'AMDevice 0x7ffe6d2d04a0 {UDID = f398e56f8aa95276585e0c5f74544bc24dda99bd, device ID = 58, FullServiceName = fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.}' detached.
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in _copyFile:error (2) opening 0.directoryStoreFile
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in recoverIndex:Unrecoverable error: could not recover path index (0.)
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (Normal) DiskStore: Rebuilding index for /Volumes/Media
May 10 17:53:40 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoCreate:Tried to create index when index already existed
May 10 17:53:49 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:01: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 10 17:54:01 Neil-Cattons-iMac login[1000]: DEAD_PROCESS: 1000 ttys000
May 10 17:54:05 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:35: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
May 10 17:54:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _SendAttachNotification (thread 0x7fff799da960): sending attach for device fc:25:3f:7e:2a:19@fe80::fe25:3fff:fe7e:2a19._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.: _GetAddrInfoReplyReceivedCallback matched.
May 10 17:54:38 Neil-Cattons-iMac usbmuxd[29]: _AMDeviceConnectByAddressAndPort (thread 0x100781000): IPv4
May 10 17:54:46 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:50: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in _copyFile:error (2) opening 0.directoryStoreFile
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in recoverIndex:Unrecoverable error: could not recover path index (0.)
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (Normal) DiskStore: Rebuilding index for /Volumes/Media
May 10 17:54:50 Neil-Cattons-iMac mds[39]: (/Volumes/Media/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/5E86681D-E756-465C-925C-A631D78C3A46)( Error) IndexCI in CIMetaInfoCreate:Tried to create index when index already existed
May 10 17:54:51 Neil-Cattons-iMac fseventsd[15]: disk logger: failed to open output file /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd/fc007480d049964a (Invalid argument). mount point /Volumes/Media/.fseventsd
May 10 17:54:55: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 238d0016, actual seed is 7fdcc233
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2f760017, actual seed is 1befd79f
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 255a0018, actual seed is 41a7c4c9
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 292e0019, actual seed is 6b68079a
May 10 17:54:55 Neil-Cattons-iMac Finder[147]: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 2263001a, actual seed is 4e6afb66
May 10 17:55:01 Neil-Cattons-iMac kernel[0]:
I'm now out of ideas and when I got in touch with G-Tech support I got "Unfortunately the drive seems to have been corrupted. You can try to retrieve the data using third party data recovery software such as Data Rescue 3. You can find the software at a discounted rate at the following page:http://www.thedatarescuecenter.com/gtech-data-recovery-software.html If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask."
any help/advice/pointers very much appreciated as I really don't want to have to start recovering again :-(
Thanks all.

Hi Ncat,
I might have had similar problems with yours. Finder stuck at 'Not Responding' while I boot my Macbook Pro with external HDD plugged in, my macbook heats up considerably maybe because it keeps trying to access the external disk. And Finder can only proceed after I unplugged my external hard disk.
So what I did was:
I rebooted my macbook into recovery mode (by holding cmd+R before / during the booting chime
I used the Disk Utility from there (instead of from normal booting)
Then I proceed to with 'Repair Permissions' and 'Repair Disk' for each and every partition of the external harddisk, and also my internal hard disk.
Rebooted after everything's done, and now it seems to work.
I hope that it will work for you

External Drive with Time Machine, booting from external drive with utilitie

I'm using Time Machine now with
a LaCie 1TB external hard drive.
Everything works fine.
But, I've been wondering:
Can I place a program like TechTool
on the external drive (that Time Machine uses)
and boot from that external drive.
I would like to be able to do that,
because diagnostics and repair programs
only works properly and fully when they run from
external drives. Anything on the internal drive can be repaired
and examine. Impossible to do if Techtool is on the same
drive that's been examined.
Any thoughts as to what I should do?
Thanks
iMac, Leopard, Time Machine, Lacie Quadra 1TB drive.
P.S. Stupid question: If my computer crashes, and I reboot from Time Machine
(from the external drive) how does the computer know which backup to take ?!?
Isn't there many versions of the OS on the Time Machine backup taken at different times?

pitou wrote:
P.S. Stupid question: If my computer crashes, and I reboot from Time Machine
(from the external drive) how does the computer know which backup to take ?!?
Isn't there many versions of the OS on the Time Machine backup taken at different times?
As V.K. says, you can't boot from TM backups.
But you can restore your entire system from any one of them, per the procedure in #14 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
You can also selectively restore from them, while running normally. See #15 in the FAQ Tip.
You might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
Apple - Support - Mac OSX v10.5 Leopard Time Machine
and perhaps browse the rest of the FAQ Tip.

Trouble Booting from External Drives - MBA 2012

Hello,
I have a brand new 13" MBA which I'm working on building an image to use for deployment using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5. For whatever reason, I can't boot the new 2012 MBA from an external LaCie FW800 or Thunderbolt 1TB Little Big Disk that is running either 10.7.2 or 10.7.4. As soon as I select the drive to boot from when holding the Options key or from selecting the partition from Startup Disk in System Preferences, I get the do not enter icon(circle with the diagonal slash). I tried both plugged in through a Cinema Display and plugging the Thunderbolt drive directly to the laptop. I confirmed both LaCie drives boot properly on an iMac and the last gen MBP/MBA.
Laptop Specs:
13"
1.8GHz Dual-core i5
8GB
128 SSD
10.7.4
Curious if anyone has run into any problems booting from external drives on the new 2012 MBA.
Thanks,
Paolo

Please be sure you have prepped these external drives correctly:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
My suggestion for cloning is to use Disk Utility. This will also automatically clone the Recovery HD, as well:
Clone Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue button.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

Hi, I have a macbook pro with a new hard drive installed. My WD external drive backup on time machine now wont let me access the files. I get a prompt saying 'you do not have permission to access the files'

hi, I have a macbook pro with a new hard drive installed and restored. My WD external drive backup on time machine now wont let me access the files. I get a prompt saying 'you do not have permission to access the files' After my new drive was installed I plugged in time machine and it started backing up. I paused it when I realised that it was running for more than a few minutes. I now realise that it probably started backing up the new hard drive all over again. Which makes me think that the original back up must be on the WD back I cant seem to access it. Any ideas would be helpful.

See E-10 in the first link.
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems

Can Disk Utility get SMART status from external drives?

I recently updated my backup plan with a NewerTech quad-interface dock and a WD Caviar Green hd. I'm using the FW800 interface to connect to my iMac (10.6.7) Everything works perfectly, as expected. I noticed, though, that Disk Utility cannot report the SMART status on the new WD drive. DU simply says "Not Supported" under SMART Status.
Is Disk Utility telling me that it doesn't read SMART status from external drives? Or is it telling me that the new drive doesn't support SMART (which I would find highly unusual)? And, if it's Disk Utility that can't read the status, are there any third-party apps that can report the SMART status on an external drive?
Thanks,
JimC

Unfortunately I cannot speak to the NewerTech enclosure, but in principle it appears to be possible to have SMART information displayed even for external drives if the enclosure's bridge controller chip allows it.
My experience:
I've used two MacPower Pleiades FW800/400/USB/eSATA enclosures for several years and I've now supplemented them with two additional inXtron enclosures. They all work as expected daisy-chained to the iMac.
The interesting thing is that the inXtron enclosures came with a CD with some software on it ("Smart AP") which is not available for download, notably a Dashboard Widget for displaying actual and maximum temperatures, total hours of operation, start/stop cycles, drive model and serial number.
This widget is complete garbage, though – it is a nauseating nightmare of extreme over-design at the expense of even basic usability:
http://www.inxtron.com/information-center/smart-ap-for-external-hard-drives
To make matters even worse, it can only display the above information for the first external drive connected.
BUT: This Widget internally calls a command line utility which does the actual parameter retrieval, and that one can be called from the terminal as well.
So after installing the software from CD and effectively discarding the Widget, I checked out the command line utility in the Terminal and found that this utility actually reported data about ALL my enclosures, both the inXtron and the MacPower ones (there seems to be firmware compatibility across these):
(The '$' is supposed to be Terminal's bash prompt – type in only the rest of the respective line.)
$ /Applications/MacpowerAP/GetSMART 1
29 50 13 8
53 67 645 15829
52 53 90 7105
51 52 18 13
Each line reports the following for one connected enclosure:
[temp] [maxtemp] [cycles] [hours]
The drives are reported first USB, then FireWire drives, each in the order of first connection / mounting.
$ /Applications/MacpowerAP/GetSMART 2
WD-WCA**************
WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0
5TE09***************
ST31000333AS-00MMMB0
5TE09***************
ST31000333AS-00MMMB0
WD-WMA**************
WDC WD30EZRS-00J99B0
Each drive gets two lines reported, first the drive's serial number ("***" blocking out my exact ones), then the drive model.
$ /Applications/MacpowerAP/GetSMART 3
29 50 13 8
WD-WCA**************
WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0
53 67 645 15829
5TE09***************
ST31000333AS-00MMMB0
52 53 90 7105
5TE09***************
ST31000333AS-00MMMB0
51 52 18 13
WD-WMA**************
WDC WD30EZRS-00J99B0
This combines both of the above.
$ /Applications/MacpowerAP/GetSMART 5
disk4
disk1
disk2
disk3
This reports the mounted disk names (referring not to the volume names but to the internal Unix names as in /dev/[drive]); Numbering is in connection / mounting order, the actual sequence is as always USB drives, then FireWire drives.
$ /Applications/MacpowerAP/GetSMART 6
USB
1394
1394
1394
This reports the connection interface for each drive in the same sequence as all other commands.
$ /Applications/MacpowerAP/GetSMART 7
MPT934DS1.20.0104.00
MPT934DS1.20.0104.00
This might report the firmware revision or something like that.
These are the commands I know about, and they apply only to the "Smart AP" software supplied with current inXtron enclosures, but it may be possible that other brands use it as well.
I have not been able to identify information about the self-test (early(?) failure warning), but it might be contained as well in the data reported above.
As always, your mileage may vary and you should never do such experiments without FIRST making sure you've got backups of your data and that such backup is not connected during experimentation!
Maybe this can help some people getting the information they need; And maybe there are similar capabilities with other enclosures. At the very least it demonstrates that with the proper firmware in the enclosures themselves and some software on the Mac it IS possible to get at least some of the SMART information from the drive in an external FireWire- or USB-connected enclosure.
None of that is fed into the system's "official" SMART mechanism, though, so no luck using standard mechanisms or applications for it. It's strictly a command-line affair (deservedly disregarding the mishappen Widget).
Good luck!

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