Time Machine Drive won't mount, mounts on windows

Hi guys, I have a Seagate GoFlex Desk for Mac, it's a 2TB external Firewire 800 and USB 2.0 drive.
My machine is a 2011 iMac 27" i7 16GB RAM 2TB HD
I use the external drive for my Time Machine Backup, my mac had to be brought in to have the display replaced so i did a backup before i brought it to the service center.
After getting the mac back i noticed my time machine drive was not showing on the desktop so i tried doing a time machine backup but i got an error that there was not TM drive.
I ran Disk utility and it shows the drive with the Time machine partitioned grayed out and at the bottom "Mount Point : Not mounted", i tried mounting it from DU but nothing, i did a verify disk and right away i got a message that the disk needs to be repaired. I ran the repair but DU would get stuck trying to unmount the disk.
I tried restarting my computer, and i changed to other firewire cables i had using the firewire port and using the thunderbolt to firewire adaptor but no luck, also i tried USB.
Then i tried it on my windows partition with USB and it showed on windows, i was able to recover my data but i couldn't delete any from the drive, when i tried deleting anything i got a message that said "the files are too big" or something like that, I also tried formating the drive on windows but no luck with that.
I have no idea what's going on, the drive won't mount and it can't be ejected even though it's recognized (the time machine partition is grayed out)
Any suggestions? i really don't want to throw it away and if  do i would at least like to wipe it out.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions

Other than the Disk Repair from the Disk Utility, I would suggest resetting the PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11243.
Tha's kind of a last ditch effort though. Can you put it in another mac computer with the mac os? Does it show up there?

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  • I have an external Time Machine drive that I want to reformat. I can't remember the password. How can I do this. Disk Utility won't let me. Thanks.

    I have an iMac that had drive problems last winter. Took the iMac to the Apple Store and they reinstalled everything and now it works again. Only thing is that my external Time Machine drive is screwed up now. Its 1.5 TB.
    I had the Time Machine drive partioned into two parts. One partion was for an emergency bootup using carbon copy cloner. That partion I can open and mounts on my desktop. The other partion was Time Machine. It once upon a time opened and mounted without a password.
    It requests a password to unlock even though I never had it password protected before the iMac drive problems. And so now it won't mount the drive.
    I can go to Disk Utilities and I can see Time Machine with both partions. The Carbon Copy partion is mounted. The Time Machine partion is not mounted. For this reason I can't select it and erase it.
    What the heck am I supposed ot do now to erase it and start over. Any help would be appreciated. I really don't want to go and buy another drive.
    Kevin

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
    { diskutil list; echo; diskutil cs list; } | open -f -a TextEdit
    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
    Launch the Terminal 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 Terminal in the icon grid.
    Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
    A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Post the contents of that window, if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
    If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.

  • My MacBook pro won't recognize hard drive I put in it. It boots only to a white screen unless I boot to my recovery USB. If I do that then I can select my USB and my external time machine drive in the disk utility, so no problems there. But what do you

    My MacBook pro won't recognize hard drive I put in it. It boots only to a white screen unless I boot to my recovery USB. If I do that then I can select my USB and my external time machine drive in the disk utility, so no problems there. But what do you think it is? It won't recognize any hard drive I put in the machine, so might it be the sata cable?

    Boot the Recvoery USB, use Disk Utility to select the internal drive makers namea and size on the left.
    Now select erase and select the midde option and click erase, it will take a bit to complete but it's best for the drive.
    Now select Partiton tab, click the big box and Options: GUID and then Format: OS X Extended journaled and click apply.
    Quit and you should be able to install OS X now with your Apple ID and password.
    see
    http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant-tool-makes-external- lion-boot-recovery-drives/

  • Flashing unmounted partitions on Time Machine drive

    Using Lion 10.7.2 and an external 1TB WD My Book (firewire port).
    This drive has 5 partitions, 4 of them Super Duper BUs which are not mounted,
    and the rest of the drive is for Time Machine (500GB) and it is mounted.
    When TM is doing its backup I sometimes see the unmounted volumes flashing
    in the Finder under the DEVICES heading.
    Why is this?
    Curiously if I mount them and then unmount them during the backup they
    no longer show up in the finder.
    Why is this?
    respect....
    Peter

    Amy,
    Find out why that annoying light is flashing.
    Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
    Click on the amber dot for details and suggested actions
    If everything seems to be OK otherwise, it might be a notice that an update is available for the Time Capsule.

  • Migration Assistant doesn't see USB Time Machine drive

    My dad recently got a new MacBook Pro and wants to restore from his Time Machine backup, stored on a USB drive. He didn't use the Setup Assistant at the start - I'm really not sure why, but anyway...
    Now we're looking at Migration Assistant, and it can't find the Time Machine drive. On the 'Select your disk' screen, the wheel just spins and spins. The backup drive is plugged in and mounted. We've checked the drive for errors using Disk Util, and it's fine. Moreover, I tested this with my own MBP and it's backup drive and the same problem occurs.
    He also tried booting from the install DVD and using the 'restore' option from the Utilities menu, without success.
    Is this because he has started to set up the machine using a user (as admin) with the same account name as the Time Machine backups? This website suggested that maybe that's what happening: http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html. Before I take him through a reinstall, etc, I'm hoping to confirm that this is really the problem!

    Just create a new user account with a different name. Logout of the current account and log into the new one. Be sure the new account has admin status. You can then try migrating and see if it now works. Also see OS X 10.5- Migration Assistant keeps "looking for other computers".
    See User Tips for Time Machine for help with TM problems. Also you can select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu and search for "time machine" to locate articles on how to use TM. See also Mac 101- Time Machine.

  • Migration assistant - doesn't see Time Machine drive

    I'm using a netatalk based Time machine drive which works perfectly from my old 2006 MBP.
    I'm trying to use Migration Assistant to restore the data to my new 2010 MBP. Time machine on both macs sees the netatalk drive, however, Migration Assistant does not - there is just an empty window with a spinning progress wheel.
    Any ideas?

    This seemed to be a problem with mounting the Time Machine sparsebundle from the old MBP.
    I solved it by:
    1. Launching Disk Utility,
    2. Drag sparsebundle into the drive list on the left (takes ages, ignore spinning wheel)
    3. select the sparsebundle
    4. Click Repair
    took a few hours, but now I can mount the image and once mounted manually, Migration Assistant sees it.
    Although it makes sense, it's not obvious that you need to mount the disk image manually for Migration Assistant to see it when Time machine sees it as a destination without doing that step.

  • Can I back up macbook to external time machine drive attached to my Samba?

    I'm already backing up my macbook with a WD MAc Formatted drive. I want to connect it to a NAS (Samba Server).
    I know that time machine will not work with NAS. Will my existing time machine drive work if I connect it wirelessly to a Samba based NAS device?

    yes. mount the drive remotely on the macbook and choose it as the designated TM drive in TM system preferences.

  • Lost the ability to Spotlight Index my Time Machine drive

    I have an external, Firewire Time Machine drive which has been working without problems up to now. This evening I had a backup which hung up in the "preparing" stage (no file transfers begun yet). When I went to look in the console, there was a device error apparently related to trying to detect the powered-on state of my Time Machine drive. Apparently Time Machine did not handle this gracefully. In the course of trying to clear that I got into a state where I had to force shutdown of the system (holding the power button). (I accidentally clicked on the Time Machine icon which got hung up trying to display the histories, and left me with no access to the Desktop....)
    Things appeared to check out fine when I brought the machine back up (including Verify Disk of both the main and Time Machine drives and Repair Permissions of the main drive), and I finally did a Back Up Now in Time Machine. Due to the forced shut down, this became a "Deep Traversal" "preparing"stage. We'll I've seen those before, so no worries. However it lasted quite a bit longer than it should, at which point I noticed that Spotlight was indexing the Time Machine drive.
    So at this point I dragged the Time Machine into the Spotlight Privacy list. Rather than going away completely as I expected, the indexing of the Time Machine drive apparently went into some sort of clean-up phase that said it was still indexing for another 5 minutes (where it had, just prior, said it was going to be indexing for another 2 hours). The progress bar advanced normally as if it really did do 5 minutes more of indexing of the Time Machine drive. I've not seen this before
    When that finished, the backup which had been "preparing" during all of this also finished "preparing", transferred the several MB of files I expected, and finished normally. There were no errors in the console related to any of this.
    I rebooted, and once again did a pair of Disk Verifies and a Repair Permissions without problems. Opened up the console to track things, and poked around in the Time Machine. All was normal as far as I can tell. I also explored the Time Machine drive via the Finder. No problems.
    So I now went into Spotlight Privacy and removed the Time Machine drive from the privacy list expecting it to do the re-indexing I had stopped above. Spotlight started indexing the drive and a couple seconds later it stopped. I tried again -- into and out of privacy -- same result, a couple seconds of indexing and then it stopped.
    At this point I noticed the console was saying I had some bus errors in the I/O system, and that's what was terminating the md worker process and stopping the indexing.
    So I shut down, unplugged the Time Machine drive, and went through my maintenance ritual.
    I reset the PMU (this is a powerbook), reset PRAM, booted once in Safe Mode, booted normally, and ran Disk Utility again to Verify and Repair Permissions on the main hard drive. All of that went without a hitch. No failures, faults or funnies.
    I ran through the list of Applications I use, keeping an eye on the console. Again no problems.
    So I shut down, plugged the Time Machine drive back in and booted back up. I put the drive into Spotlight Privacy and turned off Time Machine backups. I then did a Verify Disk on that drive. No problems. I went into the Time Machine history display. No problems. And no problems looking at it in the Finder either. In particular, no bus errors or anything else funny in the console.
    I rebooted and did a new Back Up Now. It completed without problems. It was another Deep Traversal backup due to the Safe Mode Boot, but it went without a hitch. I rebooted and did another Back Up Now and got a normal speed incremental backup again without a hitch. The bottom line is that as far as I can see that Time Machine drive is working just fine.
    So I went into Spotlight Privacy and removed it from the list. Once again it started to index and stopped in a couple seconds. But this time there were NO Console error messages.
    I moved my main hard drive into Spotlight Privacy and removed it and it re-indexed from scratch just fine. Tried again with the Time Machine drive -- indexing stopped in a couple of seconds with no message in the Console. Spotlight searches find all the right stuff in the main drive. Spotlight and finder searches find only the top level Time Machine folders in the Time Machine drive.
    I also tried removing the Spotlight plist from my account's Library / Preferences. Spotlight created a new plist as expected but it still won't index that darned Time Machine drive.
    Apparently there is something left over from when I originally aborted the Spotlight indexing of that drive which is causing Spotlight to think it has no work to do. I'm not seeing any I/O errors of any sort any more (I think my maintenance pass took care of that) and Time Machine backups and history access continue to work just fine. And again, the Time Machine disk Verifies just fine.
    So I've run out of things to try.
    Is there a hidden file that I need to remove from that drive so that Spotlight no longer thinks it already has it indexed?
    --Bob

    Well unfortunately the command
    sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/MyDiskName
    didn't help.
    The command itself echoed the name of the volume and then said "Indexing Enabled", which looked good. But the Spotlight indexing stopped after a couple seconds. The Console reported the Terminal sudo command and nothing else.
    I tried moving the Time Machine drive in and out of Spotlight privacy and once again the indexing started and stopped a couple seconds later with no Console messages.
    I then tried another trick I've learned to make Spotlight indexing happen which is to do a Finder search for, say, all folders (limited to the one drive) via Command-f and while Including both System Files and files both Visible and Invisible. And indeed Spotlight indexing started but again stopped a few seconds later.
    However, this time there were console messages and a crash report.
    The Console shows (with personal information x'ed out):
    12/31/07 1:30:38 PM mds[28] (/)(Error) IndexCI in openindex_filelazy:open file error: 2, 0.indexGroups
    12/31/07 1:30:41 PM ReportCrash[146] Formulating crash report for process mds[28]
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[28]) Exited abnormally: Bus error
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10ba40.mdworker[96]) Exited: Terminated
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (0x1004a0.mdworker[108]) Exited: Terminated
    12/31/07 1:30:42 PM mds[147] (/Volumes/Xxxxxx Time Machine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/80F3EC85-D77A-49FE-8BDC-BB7C3B3EC1CF)(E rror) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Unclean shutdown of /Volumes/Xxxxxx Time Machine/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/80F3EC85-D77A-49FE-8BDC-BB7C3B3EC1CF/0. ; needs recovery
    12/31/07 1:30:43 PM ReportCrash[146] Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/mds2007-12-31-133038Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx-Computer.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
    The Crash Report reads as follows (again with personal information x'ed out):
    Process: mds [28]
    Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
    Identifier: mds
    Version: ??? (???)
    Code Type: PPC (Native)
    Parent Process: launchd [1]
    Date/Time: 2007-12-31 13:30:38.746 -0500
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
    Report Version: 6
    Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
    Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000030
    Crashed Thread: 15
    Thread 0:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0000cfa0 0x1000 + 49056
    5 mds 0x00005580 0x1000 + 17792
    Thread 1:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 2:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 3:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 4:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 5:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 6:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda3ec _semwaitsignal + 12
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f16fa0 pthread_condwait + 1580
    2 mds 0x00009648 0x1000 + 34376
    3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 7:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ee0ea0 read$UNIX2003 + 12
    1 mds 0x000091b4 0x1000 + 33204
    Thread 8:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15438 kevent + 12
    1 mds 0x0007e584 0x1000 + 513412
    Thread 9:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 10:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 11:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 12:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 13:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00207f0c _handleExceptions + 208
    3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 14:
    0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92ed39d8 machmsgtrap + 8
    1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92eda8fc mach_msg + 56
    2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90214664 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1828
    3 mds 0x00059ab8 0x1000 + 363192
    4 mds 0x0005987c 0x1000 + 362620
    5 com.apple.Foundation 0x969c5d9c _NSThread__main_ + 1004
    6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 15 Crashed:
    0 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x002046cc ContentIndexContainsContentByDocId + 204
    1 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00164358 QueryFunctionCallbackContext::findContent(db_obj*, __CFString const*, char*, int) + 244
    2 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001634d0 qpContentIndexMatch(datastoreinfo*, dblazyobj*, query_piece*, void*, int) + 328
    3 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0015587c comparefile_againsttree + 828
    4 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00155d30 comparefile_againsttree + 2032
    5 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00155d5c comparefile_againsttree + 2076
    6 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001e307c -[SISearchCtx isObjectInQuery:withQuery:shortcut:] + 144
    7 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001fa268 -[SISearchCtx_FSWalk performSearch:] + 996
    8 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001e2cbc -[SISearchCtx executeSearchContextCracked_2:jobNum:] + 136
    9 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00177e80 siwork_queueprocess + 752
    10 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0017811c sischeduleronce + 356
    11 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0017816c sischeduleronce + 436
    12 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x001784f8 sischeduler_run_waitingtimeout + 640
    13 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x0016529c runLoop + 72
    14 com.apple.spotlight.index 0x00165308 query_runLoop + 32
    15 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92f15bf8 pthreadstart + 316
    Thread 15 crashed with PPC Thread State 32:
    srr0: 0x002046cc srr1: 0x0200f030 dar: 0x00000030 dsisr: 0x40000000
    r0: 0x002046a4 r1: 0xf09a4380 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0x00000000
    r4: 0xf09a43c0 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x000074d1 r7: 0x00000000
    r8: 0x003fc080 r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0x00000000 r11: 0x44000444
    r12: 0x92ede094 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00373410
    r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00239e98 r18: 0x00000001 r19: 0x00227b9c
    r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00245554 r22: 0x00000001 r23: 0x00000001
    r24: 0x00000000 r25: 0x00000005 r26: 0x00000000 r27: 0x00000000
    r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0x00000005 r30: 0xf09a43c0 r31: 0x00204610
    cr: 0x24000444 xer: 0x20000004 lr: 0x002046a4 ctr: 0x92ede094
    vrsave: 0x00000000
    Binary Images:
    0x1000 - 0xc1ffb mds ??? (???) <af9cc958b4b030835101ff024186c7d3> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
    0xde000 - 0xe0ffd com.apple.MDSChannel 1.0 (1.0) /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MDSChannel.framework/Versions/A/MDSChannel
    0x139000 - 0x23fffb com.apple.spotlight.index 10.5.0 (398.1) <5843125c709dd85f22f9bd42744beea5> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SpotlightIndex.framework/Versions/A/Spotlight Index
    0x1ca9000 - 0x1caaffc liblangid.dylib ??? (???) <5f078ac1f623f5ce432ea53fc29338c0> /usr/lib/liblangid.dylib
    0x2198000 - 0x22bdffb libmecab.1.0.0.dylib ??? (???) <cd875e74974e4ec3a0b13eeeb236fa53> /usr/lib/libmecab.1.0.0.dylib
    0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe309d3 dyld 95.3 (???) <a7be977c203ec5c76b2f25a7aef66554> /usr/lib/dyld
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    0x9060a000 - 0x90612fff libbsm.dylib ??? (???) <c1fca3cbe3b1c21e9b31bc89b920f34c> /usr/lib/libbsm.dylib
    0x90683000 - 0x90688ff6 libmathCommon.A.dylib ??? (???) /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
    0x90757000 - 0x907d2fff com.apple.SearchKit 1.2.0 (1.2.0) <1b448fbae02460eae76ee1c6883f45d6> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SearchK it.framework/Versions/A/SearchKit
    0x9088a000 - 0x9090ffff libsqlite3.0.dylib ??? (???) <7b379cb4220346e99c32c427d4539496> /usr/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib
    0x90aa7000 - 0x90ab5fff libz.1.dylib ??? (???) <1a70dd3594a8c5ad39d785af5da23237> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
    0x90b50000 - 0x90be2fff com.apple.framework.IOKit 1.5.1 (???) <591b8b0cc4261db98a6e72e38eef5f9a> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
    0x91105000 - 0x9116cffb libstdc++.6.dylib ??? (???) <a4e9b10268b3ffac26d0296499b24e8e> /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
    0x9116d000 - 0x912b5ff3 libicucore.A.dylib ??? (???) <250daed2fb2e6bf114480e2e4da0728b> /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
    0x91c3c000 - 0x91d32ffc libiconv.2.dylib ??? (???) <05ae1fcc97404173b2f9caef8f8be797> /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
    0x91d3a000 - 0x91db4ffd com.apple.CFNetwork 220 (221) <00b882d3d3325526b78ded74880759fe> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFNetwo rk.framework/Versions/A/CFNetwork
    0x9236a000 - 0x92382ffb com.apple.DictionaryServices 1.0.0 (1.0.0) <fe37191e732eeb66189185cd000a210b> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Diction aryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices
    0x92383000 - 0x9238effb libgcc_s.1.dylib ??? (???) <ea47fd375407f162c76d14d64ba246cd> /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
    0x92742000 - 0x92769fff libxslt.1.dylib ??? (???) <3700d04090629deddb436aa2d516c56d> /usr/lib/libxslt.1.dylib
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