Time Machine sets Lacie as a Read Only Device

I found the threads that suggest the verify / repair permissions and that cleared the "Read Only" problem. However, I am getting often errors just launching the "Disk Utility" from the main hard disk (not the Time Machine Lacie) with this crash dump.
It appears that Disk Utility getting device info prior to launch about all available hard disks in the Imac and Lacie is giving problems. as listed at the
bottom of the crash dump.
Any thoughts?. Bad disk?
Thanks
Francis.
Process: Disk Utility [397]
Path: /Volumes/LaCie/Applications/Utilities/Disk
Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility
Identifier: com.apple.DiskUtility
Version: 10.5.8 (198.16)
Build Info: DiskUtility-1981600~17
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [119]
Interval Since Last Report: 3301 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 6 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Date/Time: 2010-07-27 20:02:07.370 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: DAFF5E43-50F7-4359-9DA0-5F1411373288
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __commpagedsmos
Referenced from: /Volumes/LaCie/Applications/Utilities/Disk
Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Kinda obvious, but have you tried unplugging the LaCie first, loading DU, and then plugging it back in?

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Setting Default permission to Read Only

Hi,
When sharing access to a User, when clicking on the "Share" option, by default the page shows the group which has "Contribute" access. Is it possible to set the default to "Read Only" or the Visitors group.
Thanks

Try:
Site Actions > Site Permissions > click the Visitors group link > Settings < Make Default Group
Click OK
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Margriet Bruggeman
Lois & Clark IT Services
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Setting my fone to read only nokia 6111

iv transferred a song via bluetooth 2 my nokia 6111 n now i want 2 delete it as its taking up alot of memory, however my fone wont let me delete it. Iv got in contact wit the maker of my bluetooth device n they said i need 2 get in contact wit nokia as my fone isnt set 2 read only, which means i cant delete or modify things i put on my fone. Ne ideas how to set my fone 2 read only??!!! x x

Each class normally does have a method "FREE" named "Destroy"
Normally it should be enough to clear the object reference.
if it's still not working, try to copy your report and eliminate all stuff that has nothing to do with this problem. if you do not find the error then, pls post this coding.

HT4413 When migrating from time machine to my new hard drive, only some files and applications and setting are transferred, not all of them. In my latest back up I have them all. How can I fix that?

When migrating from time machine to a new hard drive, not all is transferd, only partial documents, applications , settings etc. How can I migrate the latest back-up with all the content.

sohs wrote:
When migrating from time machine to a new hard drive, not all is transferd, only partial documents, applications , settings etc. How can I migrate the latest back-up with all the content.
If you want to use Time Machine to recover the contents of one of its a backups to a new drive, follow the instructions in Mac OS X 10.6: Recovering your entire system. Note that you must select the "Restore System From Backup" option from the Utilities menu of the Installer disc to do this.
Also note that if you are transferring files to a hard drive to be used with a different computer, you should use Migration Assistant instead. This intentionally will not copy everything because some settings, applications, etc. are not compatible computer-to-computer. Migration Assistant will copy everything that is.

Time Machine: setting-up external hard drive question

I purchased the Lacie 2TB External Hard Drive from Apple and in the set-up process it said to free up all 2 TB storage space if I intend to use it only for my MAC (which I do), so that's what I did. However, when I was doing that, the set-up screen kept giving me these warning signs if I did all MAC like the screen told me to do it would erase data on the disk...I did all MAC anyways so not sure what got erased since nothing I thought is supposed to be on there...don't these come clean with 2TB available? I just want to make sure I did this right!

KrystelleLynne wrote:
I have been doing back-ups on with it using time machine. I did not, however, do the check in disk utility. Since there are back-ups on the hard drive, should I still erase?
Not now no. All is ok then.
If Time machine HAS been backing up to it, its fine, it couldnt use it otherwise.
However now that youve got A (single) backup, dont make the huge mistake everyone else does, backup your data on yet another HD and update it and store it somewhere safe
second HD doesnt have to use time machine, just drag and drop your valuable data.
Hard drives are cheap as dirt, buy another one at minimum if you cherish your priceless data.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
The Tragedy that will be, the tragedy that never should be
Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and squirreled away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.
Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.
Never practice at any time for any reason the false premise and unreal sense of security in thinking your data is safe on any single external hard drive. This is never the case and has proven to be the single most common horrible tragedy of data loss that exists.
Many 100s of millions of hours of lost work and data are lost each year due to this single common false security. This is an unnatural disaster that can avoid by making all data redundant and then redundant again. If you let a $60 additional redundant hard drive and 3 hours of copying stand between you and years of work, then you've made a fundamental mistake countless 1000s of people each year have come to regret.
Many countless people think they're safe and doing well having a single external backup of their vital data they worked months, years, and sometimes decades on. Nothing could be further from the truth. Never let yourself be in situation of having a single external copy of your precious data.

10.5.5 sets external volume to read-only

Bizarre.
I have 4 external volumes (2 FW800, 2 USB 2.0) and one of the volumes suddenly shifted to read-only status after updating to 10.5.5 this afternoon. At least, that's the error message I get when I try to touch a file anywhere on the volume.
Problem started when I tried to open iTunes and got the error message "The folder 'Music' is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder." Get Info indicates that this user account does, in fact, have Read & Write permissions. Group and Other permissions are set to Read Only. Get Info does not allow me to select the lock to make changes, however, but nor is the "Locked" checkbox selected.
In Terminal, permissions for Volume "Little Brother" are indicated as:
drwxrwxr-x 11 <adminuser> staff 442 Aug 13 13:11 Little Brother
The Music folder in question appears to have the appropriate permissions as well:
drwxr-xr-x 14 <adminuser> staff 476 Sep 18 11:17 Music
Aside from the 10.5.5 update there have been no changes to the filesystem, and no files written to this drive.
I can touch files on each volume except for "Little Brother". Aside from chmodding the **** thing, does anyone have any recommendations for what I can do?
Thanks.

I think Ill just keep responding to this, every time Apple issues an update (patch) that causes the problem to resurface. I have contacted tech support. And they tell me they no nothing about this and have never heard about it. Then I tell them to check my support records. The issue is well documented there and goes back for many, many months.
So, today I came home to find that apparently my software update utility (which is set to NOT update the software) has updated my software. My brand new Western Digital external 2TB disk is off line and my Time Machine drive (1.5TB Maxtor) now appears to be completely after being kicked from the USB ever friggin time there is a software patch.
I'm trying one last time to recover following the procedure above - but once again I am running the procedure above against my 2TB user disk - so hopefully in 8 or 12 hours Ill know something. Thanks again to all the Windows developers who are now obviously working at Apple.

Time machine with LaCie USB external HD

I was just over at the LaCie site looking around for a big USB drive to use for Time Machine backups on an iMac I've ordered, and I noticed that only their firewire HDs were advertised as "Time Machine Compatible." None of the high speed USB drives were. Well, I don't want to pay for a feature I don't need, but I want to make sure the drives work. I will contact LaCie, but in the meantime, anybody out there using USB LaCie drives for TM backups? Which ones? Problems?

I'm using a LaCie 500GB Firewire, not USB HD with TM. It could be used with USB but Firewire seems to be faster. It also has a connection port for eSATA but I could'nt figure out how to connect it to a MacBook Pro since it does'nt sport a port for it.

Why does Time Machine not work over wifi but only via ethernet cable ?

Hi everyone,
It's been some time I have this problem now.
The first time I backed up my mac within Time Capsule with time machine, I chose to use the ethernet cable because the gigabit connection is much faster than the wifi for the first back up, but now, any time I want to update this back up, I need to connect the cable, cause "Time Machine can not connect to the Drive I picked" over wifi.
This is so annoying. Does anyone have a similar issue ?
Any solution ?
When I got this "error" I can use Utility Airport and get full access to the drive, even in finder. The only thing that doesn't work is TimeMachine connecting to the drive, even if it is detected by TimeMachine itself.
Thanks.
Riccardo

Typical Yosemite.
I suggest a full reconfigure of the TC.
Follow this list..
No files are deleted on the TC doing this although you might have to repoint your laptop to the backup.
Note.. even if TM does connect it will say it is going to do a new backup.. it is only when it starts that it discovers the backup exists and increments it.
Start from a factory reset. No files are lost on the hard disk doing this.
Factory reset universal
Power off the TC.. ie pull the power cord or power off at the wall.. wait 10sec.. hold in the reset button.. be gentle.. power on again still holding in reset.. and keep holding it in for another 10sec. You may need some help as it is hard to both hold in reset and apply power. It will show success by rapidly blinking the front led. Release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the TC to reset and come back with factory settings. If the front LED doesn’t blink rapidly you missed it and simply try again. The reset is fairly fragile in these.. press it so you feel it just click and no more.. I have seen people bend the lever or even break it. I use a toothpick as tool.
N.B. None of your files on the hard disk of the TC are deleted.. this simply clears out the router settings of the TC.
Setup the TC again.
Then redo the setup from the computer with Yosemite.
1. Use very short names.. NOT APPLE RECOMMENDED names. No spaces and pure alphanumerics.
eg TCgen5 for basestation and and TCwifi wireless name.
If the issue is wireless use TC24ghz and TC5ghz with fixed channels as this also seems to help stop the nonsense. But this can be tried in the second round. ie plan on a first and second round of changes to fix this.. hopefully.. I will point out other steps that can be round2.
2. Use all passwords that also comply with 1. but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
3. If the TC is main router you can skip this point. This is only an issue when the TC is bridged.
Ensure the TC always takes the same IP address.. you will need to do this on the main router using dhcp reservation.. or a bit more complex setup using static IP in the TC. But this is important.. having IP drift all over the place when Yosemite cannot remember its own name for 5 min after a reboot makes for poor networking.
4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. but this change will mess up your TM backup.. so be prepared to do a new full backup. Sorry.. keep this one for second round if you want to avoid a new backup.
5. Mount the TC disk in the computer manually.
In Finder, Go, Connect to server from the top menu,
Type in SMB://192.168.0.254 (or whatever the TC ip is which you have now made static. As a router by default it is 10.0.1.1 and I encourage people to stick with that unless you know what you are doing).
You can use name.. SMB://TCgen5.local where you replace TCgen5 with your TC name.. local is the default domain of the TC and doesn't change.
However names are not so easy as IP address.. nor as reliable. At least not in Yosemite they aren't. The domain can also be an issue if you are not plugged or wireless directly to the TC.
6. Make sure IPv6 is set to link-local only in the computer. For example wireless open the network preferences, wireless and advanced / TCP/IP.. and fix the IPv6. to link-local only. Do the same for ethernet if you use it.
There is a lot more jiggery pokery you can try but the above is a good start.. if you find it still unreliable.. don't be surprised.
You might need to do some more work on the computer itself. eg Reset the PRAM.. has helped some people. Clean install of the OS is also helpful if you upgrade installed.
Tell us how you go.
Someone posted a solution.. See this thread.
Macbook can't find Time Capsule anymore
Start from the bottom and work up.. I have a list of good network practice changes but I have avoided Yosemites bug heaven.
Yosemite has serious DNS bug in the networking application.. here is the lets say more arcane method of fixing it by doing a network transplant from mavericks.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-yo u-can-do-to-fix-it/

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