What happen to my "Macintosh HD"?!?!
So I had a little problem where my MacBook pro wasn't turning on. I followed the steps in restarting the SMC and than a flashing folder with a question mark appear. I inserted the Mac OS X install disc because it wasnt starting up right. Now I'm trying to find my default Disk startup "Macintosh HD" but it's no where to be found!!!
Can someone help me? Where did it go?
Sounds like either the hard drive failed or the cable that goes from the hard drive to the logic/mother board has failed.
That is why the OS and you can't see the hard drive when starting the system of when booting the computer from the install DVD.
Take it to an Apple store and have it checked out. I bet it is the cable.
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What happens when the Time Machine drive is full?
I'm on my second iMac. My first one (G5, 1984) died, and I replaced it early 2010 with an Intel mac. The transition when exceedingly well largely due to Time Machine. I just hooked the Time Machine drive to the new system, and I was soon back up running!
My home folder has 70GB of data. The Macintosh drive has 105GB of data and 395GB free. The Time Machine drive has 220GB used and 30GB free.
1. What happens when the Time Machine drive is full?
2. Do I have control over what backups get deleted?
3. If lightning strikes twice, will I still be able to restore my Intel mac like my G5 mac, even if backups get deleted?
4. Is there anyway to control what backups/backup files get deleted?
5. Any other thoughts?
Thanks.maxseven wrote:
i have deleted the time machine folders and they are now in my trash. when i try to secure empty my trash it will delete everything but the t/m folders. how do i delete them?
Do you mean all of them? The entire Backups.backupdb folder?
That's a large mess. First, even a normal delete will take a very long time, as there are probably hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of files. Your best bet by far is to simply erase them with Disk Utility -- that will only take a few moments. If your TM drive has a single partition, see #1 in [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html]. If there are other partition(s) on the drive, see #2 there.
If not, and you only deleted some of the folders, you have a different, worse problem. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't do a very good job of warning folks: +*Never move, change, or delete anything in your backups via the Finder or Terminal.+*
You shouldn't have to delete backups at all, since Time Machine will do that automatically when the disk/partition gets full. But you can do it without harm via Time Machine. See #12 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
A normal delete will take a very long time, as there are probably tens or hundreds of thousands of items, each of which must be individually deleted. A secure delete will take much, much longer, as each deleted file must be overwritten with zeros. -
If i sold my macbook pro, what happens to the license
Dear All,
i'm thinking of selling my macbook pro on which i've purchased mountain lion..
what happens to my license? is it transferred to the person? is it linked with my appleid? will the person have problems once he/she logins using his/her appleid?
my macbook came originally with snow leopard, then i upgraded it to lion (purchased it), and then upgraded it to mountain lion.
i appreciate your feedback
regards,
DanyIf you purchased from the App Store then that license does not transfer. A new owner will need to purchase their own license/copy of Mountain Lion. If that's the case then install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. Supply those original installer discs with the computer to the new owner.
Follow these instructions step by step to prepare a Mac for sale:
Step One - Back up your data:
If you have any Virtual PCs shut them down. They cannot be in their "fast saved" state. They must be shut down from inside Windows.
Clone to an external drive using using Carbon Copy Cloner.
Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
Select the Source volume from the Select a source drop down menu on the left side.
Select the Destination volume from the Select a destination drop down menu on the right side.
Click on the Clone button. If you are prompted about creating a clone of the Recovery HD be sure to opt for that.
Destination means a freshly erased external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
Step Two - Prepare the machine for the new buyer:
De-authorize the computer in iTunes! De-authorize both iTunes and Audible accounts.
Remove any Open Firmware passwords or Firmware passwords.
Turn the brightness full up and volume nearly so.
Step Three - Install a fresh OS:
A. Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X
Insert the original OS X install CD/DVD that came with your computer.
Restart the computer while holding down the C key to boot from the CD/DVD.
Select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu; repartition and reformat the internal hard drive (optionally zero all data).
Install OS X.
Upon completion DO NOT restart the computer.
Shutdown the computer.
B. Lion and Mountain Lion (if pre-installed on the computer at purchase)*
Restart the computer while holding down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears.
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Upon completion shutdown the computer
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
*If your computer came with Lion or Mountain Lion pre-installed then you are entitled to transfer your license once. If you purchased Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store then you cannot transfer your license to another party. In the case of the latter you should install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. You need to repartition the hard drive as well as reformat it; this will assure that the Recovery HD partition is removed. See Step Three above. You may verify these requirements by reviewing your OS X Software License. -
What happened to PSE10 Editor Files?
I went to fire up my PSE10 Editor today and received and error message to the effect that the files couldn't be found; please reinstall.
Then when I went to start the Organizer, I got the error message that online services could not be initialized...please reinstall. I can click through and get the Organizer to come up, however.
What's happening? Where did the files go? Nothing was done to them via user initiated actions.
I want to make certain that my Organizer data is not lost since I have spent hours tagging my photos and organizing them.
Thank you !
[ Jeff ]Peran:
Thank you for your efforts on my behalf. Actually, this was installed from a retail package on discs. I eventually did speak to Adobe support, but they were not helpful in telling me "what happened," just to reinstall. This makes me a bit nervous since I don't want to lose any of my tags and EXIF data that I have carefully entered over the last few months.
Later today, I might try to reinstall the editor.
The Organizer is now telling me to reinstall because it can't initiate online services, but I am hoping that when I reinstall the Editor, this will address that as well.
I didn't mention that I was working on a Macintosh running OS X 10.6.8
This is somewhat disappoointing since I thought Elements would be a "stable" package. i was using GIMP which met most of my needs, but I thought a commercial package would be a more "stable" choice. I am now having my doubts.
Once again, thank you!
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Suddenly all my Word documents are gone. What happened? Are they recoverable (no back-up hard drive, no time machine)?
Greetings,
What happened right before they went missing? (software updates, "cleaning" up the computer, etc.)
Are your other files still there like music, movies, pictures, bookmarks, etc?
I'm sure you've already come to this conclusion yourself, you need a back up. Its easy to do with 10.5.8 and later: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553.
Try searching your account for any ".doc" files (Word documents) by going to File > Find and using the options below:
If you don't find any of the documents you are looking for in the search window and nothing else is missing then it would be wise to get a second opinion ASAP before any chance of data recovery is lost.
Make an appointment with a Mac Genius at an Apple store (they don't do data recovery but may be able to see something we can't see from here) or contact an Apple Authorized Service Provider to see if they can look around the hard drive for you.
If the second opinion reveals that the data is really gone off the entire computer then you will need data recovery software or service:
Data recovery software requires you have a separate hard drive so you'll need to buy one first. Data recovery software examples:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/
http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products _id=1
There are many nationwide / worldwide data recovery companies out there. Here are a few examples:
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/
http://www.totalrecall.com/
Best of luck to you. -
My mac file changed to liijuytrewq. What happened?
my mac file changed to liijuytrewq. What happened?
Do you have a cat?
Most often this is reported by cat owners.
The cat is drawn to the heat being vented through your keyboard and will lay on it, highlighting your "Macintosh HD" and renaming it to "whatever"
Right click the drive, choose "Get Info" and change the "Name & Extension"to reflect the proper name.
EE -
What happens when the computer get too full of e-mails? Will it automatically start deleting ... or give you some kind of warning?? I never delete personal mail right away since I might want to refer back to it, and then the first thing I know, I've got a big backlog.
It will not automatically delete any emails; you will need to do that. You may suffer performance issues in Mail if you let your mailboxes become too bloated. And, aside from Mail, the files take up a lot of room are photos, videos, and music, so you might want to watch those - every once in a while, check how much hard drive space you have and make sure you empty the trash regularly. Checking your hard drive space: highlight your Macintosh HD icon on the desktop; hit Command + I and check the total capacity, and how much is left.
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Ichat not working after recent Lion OSX update. What happened?
After installing todays update of Lion, my ichat does not work. It will not let me log in, only displaying "ichat cannot communicate with the account."
What recent update? The last Epson R220 update for non intel Macs was 08/19/10: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=60202&prodoid=58654 761&BV_UseBVCookie=yes&infoType=Downloads&platform=Macintosh&x=21&y=13
What happens when you click on the EPSON Printer Utility which should be inside the Utility folder? Have you tried repairing permissions and restarting your computer? Have you read Epson's user manual and/or contacted their tech support?
I also have the R220 model. Besides using their drivers, I also use the Gimp drivers: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php -
What happened to my device icons?
I have two external drives connected to my iMac, and when I am at the iMac I have a Flash Drive attached. When you open a window they appeared on the left side under the word "Devices" along with Macintosh HD. Well, they have disappeared. (see images below, the first shows I have three devices attached, the second shows an open window and nothing is listed under devices) And since they disappeared when I do a search it doesn't seem to search the external drives, it is like they are not there. What happened to my device icons? Before, I could just click on the right-pointing arrow next to the icon for my Flash Drive and it would expel it. I can drag the Flash Drive icon to the Trash, but I am wondering if there is something really sinister going on in my iMac. It's a 6 month old iMac running Yosemite.
It looks like the Devices section in your sidebar is hidden. Place your cursor over the "Devices" text in the Finder sidebar. You should see just to the right of the text the word "Show". Click Show and the Devices should reappear in your sidebar.
Tom -
All software reverts to start, not sure what happened
This is hard to explain since I am unsure what is actually important. Christmas eve our power went off. (this may have nothing to do with what happened) I have a battery back up. When the power went off I shut down the computer and all peripherals. The next morning we turned everything back on and it appeared normal. I personally did not use the computer until later in the day. My son tried to access a web site but since my backup software was running, it took too long so he left it. Later in the day he accessed a web site and all seemed normal to him. Another son later accessed his email (both of these are not apple mail users) He also accessed Skype and thought he had exited it. Later in the day I was going to check my email and skype was still not shut down. I forced it to quit. The desktop looked normal. All my icons were where they should be.
At one point, not exactly sure when, I had finder open and somehow inadvertently dragged my personal home folder out of finder and it went "poof". So my home folder did not show up on the left of the finder window. I opened the Users folder and picked my name folder and drug it back. (This may be the problem)
I tried to access my mail and it took me to the set up as if I had never used Mail before. I then restarted the computer and when it came back up all the icons that had been on the desktop were gone except the HD and my two back up discs. Any software I have tried to open is as if it has never been used. I had almost 10,000 photos organized in Lightroom and it is now empty. The photos are still in the pictures folder, but not in Lightroom. Same with my genealogy software, all addresses are gone from my address book, all history and bookmarks in Safari. As if it is a new computer.
I have repaired permissions, restarted several times,removed Turbo Tax (which I had installed yesterday) removed Skype which my son had used. Started up in safe mode. It is as if I just began using the computer yesterday. No logs, when I open finder it goes to icon mode and I change it each time but when I close and reopen it goes back to default.
It has to be something simple, doesn't it? I hope this makes sense to someone.
Thanks
JudyIf you want to play it safe, and you have an external drive, you may want to drag that folder with all your data to the external drive as a backup. It would be bad if you did something that caused you to lose that data. If you already do backups using Time Machine (or some other method), that's great; you should be fine. If you don't do regular backups of at least your user data, you should.
To get things back to the way they were...
Open a Finder window. Click on +Macintosh HD+ in the sidebar. Over to the right, you should see a folder called Users. Open that folder. For every user account you have on that Mac, there should be user home folder (plus one called Shared ). Is there one there now for your user account (with your user account short name)? When you moved your user account folder, the system probably created a new one. If so, look around inside to make sure it does not have any of your user files.
I have not had a need to do this myself, but it seems to me you will not be allowed to directly replace the new user home folder with the old one, because there are files inside the new user home folder that are now being used (because you are logged into that account). So I would create a new folder in the Users folder, and name it something like Temp. Drag that new user home folder to the Temp folder, so that it is out of the way.
Open a new Finder window that shows your original user home folder in the Applications folder. Drag your original user home folder from that Finder window to the Finder window that shows the Users folder. Your original user home folder should now be where it was previously located.
Restart your iMac. Hopefully, it will start up and log in using your original user home folder. If it works, you can delete that Temp folder. -
What happens on iCloud (ex. contacts) when multiple family members use the same Apple ID?
What happens on iCloud when multiple family members use the same Apple ID? For example if we all choose to use iCloud for contacts, are they all merged together? We use the same Apple ID so we can use find my iPhone to keep track of the whole family.
Of course if you are both connected to the same iCloud account you have the same contacts - what did you expect?. The contacts live on the server and are read from there by the devices; so as you've both managed to sync your contacts up to iCloud they are now inextricably mixed. You can only delete your contacts by deleting individual ones, and doing that will delete them from your phone as well.
You can only unravel this by
1. In the iCloud contacts page at http://icloud.com, select all the contacts, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left and choose 'Export vCard'.
2. Sign out of System Preferences>iCloud
3. Create a new Apple ID and open a new iCloud account with it for your own use.
4. Import the vCard back into the iCloud contacts page.
5. Go to http://icloud.com and sign in with the original ID. This is now his ID. Work through the contacts individually deleting the ones you don't want him to have. When done sign out and advise him to change his password.
6. Go to the new iCloud account and delete his contacts individually.
Of course if you have also been syncing calendars and using the same email address there are problems with doing this. -
What happens to the open item in bsid table when it is cleared
hi experts,
i have a doubt about open and cleared items of accounting documents. as we know open items of customers are stored in bsid and cleared ones in bsad. For suupose, an open item is closed ina particular period then what happened to the entry in bsid and bsad table. an entry regarding is stored in bsad (cleared),and what happens to the entry in bsid, still it will be there or removed from it.Hi,
When ever we clear the document(Complete payment) that document will be moved to BSAD table. Other wise it will remain in BSID.
If u are making partial payment then all the partial payment documents along with original document will be stored in BSID till u made the complete payment for that invoice.
Assumption is u have to give all partial payment documents made for particular invoice item while u are making complete payment in F-28 transaction. So that these partail payment documents will also be cleared while making complete payment and moved to BSAD table.
This trasaction can be used for both partial and complete payments.
Irrespective of complete or partial payments made all the documents will remain stored in BKPF and BSEG tables.
BSID and BSAD are index tables to address performance issues with BKPF and BSEG tables.
So all open and cleared documents will be there in BKPF and BSEG tables.
All cleared documents will be there in BSAD table.
Alll open documents will be there in BSID table.
Hope it is clear.
Thanks,
Vinod. -
I found My iPhone contacts on my friends Iphone we both have 4s! But we use the same apple ID and ICloud ID! How can undo what happened? all my private stuff is now on his phone!!! help me plz!!?
Of course if you are both connected to the same iCloud account you have the same contacts - what did you expect?. The contacts live on the server and are read from there by the devices; so as you've both managed to sync your contacts up to iCloud they are now inextricably mixed. You can only delete your contacts by deleting individual ones, and doing that will delete them from your phone as well.
You can only unravel this by
1. In the iCloud contacts page at http://icloud.com, select all the contacts, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left and choose 'Export vCard'.
2. Sign out of System Preferences>iCloud
3. Create a new Apple ID and open a new iCloud account with it for your own use.
4. Import the vCard back into the iCloud contacts page.
5. Go to http://icloud.com and sign in with the original ID. This is now his ID. Work through the contacts individually deleting the ones you don't want him to have. When done sign out and advise him to change his password.
6. Go to the new iCloud account and delete his contacts individually.
Of course if you have also been syncing calendars and using the same email address there are problems with doing this. -
Current State:
• I have a customer running CUCM 6.1 and UCCX 7.01SR5. Currently their CUCM is *NOT* LDAP integrated and using local accounts only. UCCX is AXL integrated to CUCM as usual and is pulling users from CUCM and using CUCM for login validation for CAD.
• The local user accounts in CUCM currently match the naming format in active directory (John Smith in CUCM is jsmith and John Smith is jsmith in AD)
Goal:
• Upgrade software versions and migrate to new hardware for UCCX
• LDAP integrate the CUCM users
Desired Future State and Proposed Upgrade Method
Using the UCCX Pre Upgrade Tool (PUT), backup the current UCCX 7.01 server.
Then during a weekend maintenance window……
• Upgrade the CUCM cluster from 6.1 to 8.0 in 2 step process
• Integrate the CUCM cluster to corporate active directory (LDAP) - sync the same users that were present before, associate with physical phones, select the same ACD/UCCX line under the users settings as before
• Then build UCCX 8.0 server on new hardware and stop at the initial setup stage
• Restore the data from the UCCX PUT tool
• Continue setup per documentation
At this point does UCCX see these agents as the same as they were before?
Is the historical reporting data the same with regards to agent John Smith (local CUCM user) from last week and agent John Smith (LDAP imported CUCM user) from this week ?
I have the feeling that UCCX will see the agents as different almost as if there is a unique identifier that's used in addition to the simple user name.
We can simplify this question along these lines
Starting at the beginning with CUCM 6.1 (local users) and UCCX 7.01. Let's say the customer decided to LDAP integrate the CUCM users and not upgrade any software.
If I follow the same steps with re-associating the users to devices and selecting the ACD/UCCX extension, what happens?
I would guess that UCCX would see all the users it knew about get deleted (making them inactive agents) and the see a whole group of new agents get created.
What would historical reporting show in this case? A set of old agents and a set of new agents treated differently?
Has anyone run into this before?
Is my goal possible while keeping the agent configuration and HR data as it was before?I was doing some more research looking at the DB schema for UCCX 8.
Looking at the Resource table in UCCX, it looks like there is primary key that represents each user.
My question, is this key replicated from CUCM or created locally when the user is imported into UCCX?
How does UCCX determine if user account jsmith in CUCM, when it’s a local account, is different than user account jsmith in CUCM that is LDAP imported?
Would it be possible (with TAC's help most likely) to edit this field back to the previous values so that AQM and historical reporting would think the user accounts are the same?
Database table name: Resource
The Unified CCX system creates a new record in the Resource table when the Unified CCX system retrieves agent information from the Unified CM.
A Resource record contains information about the resource (agent). One such record exists for each active and inactive resource. When a resource is deleted, the old record is flagged as inactive; when a resource is updated, a new record is created and the old one is flagged as inactive. -
New Data in R/3 Enterprise - ABAP Proxies - XI what happen?
Hi,
i have a theoretical question:
if i use R/3 Enterprise on WAS and put new Data in the R/3 System and transport them to XI with ABAP Proxies. What happens in the systems?
How do the R/3 System put new data in the proxy runtime and send them to xi?
I want to unterstand how the transport from new data in a R/3 System with ABAP Proxies comes to the XI Integration Server.Hi Marcel,
>>>>>How do the R/3 System put new data in the proxy runtime and send them to xi?
all you need to do in r3 is to fill tables of a generated structure
and execute one method of a generated class (send....)
then R3 will connect over HTTP to XI and send the data from your structures
structures and class in R3 is being generated automatically via TCODE SPROXY
Regards,
michal
<a href="/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/06/28/xipi-faq-frequently-asked-questions"><b>XI / PI FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</b></a>
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