Mac Pro.After installing 10.9.4 my superdrive vanishes after a period of time.It is there on starting up.It is there if a do a sleep and wake soon after starting up.It vanishes if I leave the machine alone and to sleep for a few hours.The drive functions fine.
I suspect it is powering off the drives when not used - as set in preferences - but seems to fail to wake up just the superdrive.A reboot will re-establish the drive. Is the answer to turn off the option to power off drives not being used. All other external drives seem fine under all conditions.
When I open DockSwitcher, it vanishes from the dock (quits itself?) after about 5 seconds. Even when it's there, dropping one of those zip files on it does nothing. I have a feeling this might be because I've tinkered around with those dock files, so now it's all messed up.
I've been working on avery complicated project all day with multiple layered clips with key frame animations, colour effects etc. All was fine until I opened a new project in the same event which I was going to use to create some effects sequences for the main project. When I went back to the original project it was empty. Tried the Undo function in case I had done anything stupid but it was greyed out. Went to the FCPX backups and the last file was almost 2 hours old but did not have any sign of this project. The only thing I have left is all the imported media.
Using FCPX 10.1.3. This is really annoying as all I have left is an h264 file of the almost complete project and it will be almost impossible to start from scratch.
Info: MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mid 2012 i7
I have a new USB 2/3 portable external drive, the kind without a spinning disk. I have been using Super Duper! to make a bootable backup, but it has been taking forever (3+ days) to copy my 435 GB of data.
When writing back, someone at Super Duper support asked if I had added my drive to Spotlight Privacy. I looked this up in the Apple knowledge base, but no definition turned up.
Good backup is working when needed. My OS X is ok , bet I want to check the readability of my USB backup ext drive. IS is it possible to boot my iMac with the bootable OS X Recovery drive just to see if it's ok and then stop continue the process ?A Time machine backup will be made before any action.
Macintosh HD is showing 370GB used but it doesn't add up when you look at the Users folder. The largest User account is 24GB, and between Applications, System, and Library there's only another 17GB used. Hence, about 320GB of used drive space is unaccounted for.
Disk Utility also shows 500GB drive, 127GB available, 370GB used.
I suspect an older User account was deleted but has somehow been retained, albeit hidden. Yet the Deleted Users folder is showing Zero Bytes.
Also, the Trash is completely empty, so the missing data is not lurking there.
I'd very much like to examine the deleted account and look at the data (particularly photos and movies) that were in there.
13" Macbook pro (mid 2010) running Mavericks 10.9.4, Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256Mb, Crucial SSD 240Gb, Seagate Goflex Home NAS drive 2TB, Wifi network is BT Infinity.
Since upgrading to Mavericks, my macbook pro cannot see the Goflex Home drive on the network at all. I am confident that the problem lies within Mavericks as the Goflex Home drive can be accessed perfectly on the same network using my older PowerMac, my iPad and my iPhone. Also, the NAS is accessible via the internet through the Seagate Share facility.
It is Macbook pro 13-inch with 4GB 1333MHz DDR3, OS X 10.9.4 (13E28), bought in late 2011. Today I have some DVD and CD of my coursebook and want to play it on my Macbook pro, but I could not even insert it into the drive first. Then I go to System Preference and click on CD&DVD Player. It was inserted, and it spinned and rejected. I wonder what happened? Is it OS update issue? Or Hardware issue?
PS: It was once dropped from a learning table in my class. I am curious if that is the reason I cannot play CD or DVD
I have a 1T Western Digital Auxiliary disk drive, and back up my system about every ten days. When complete I go to Finder and select the eject icon next to the drive. The light changes on the drive, and the eject icon disappears, which I interpret to mean the ejection is complete--but when I disconnect the cable, I get a scolding message from OS X saying the device was not properly ejected.
I have 3 macs, Macbook Pro, iMac 27" and iMac 20". The drive shows up on the Macbook Pro and the 27" but when I plug it into any of the USB ports on the 20" I get nothing. Nothing in the disk utility, nothing on the desktop and nothing in finder. I have already tried PRAM and SMC resets with no change in status.
I have a 1 TB Lacie external drive. it was originally formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). It also might have been formatted as a bootable drive, but I am not certain. Today I mounted the drive, entered the decrypt key and want to re-format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I am using Disk Utility to do this. When I click on Erase within Disk Utility, I get this error: I am using Mac OS X Mavericks. how to fix this so that I can re-format the drive?
Info: iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I want to back up the essential files of my office machine (windows 7) to my home mahcine. I have a VPN and have it working fine. I have linked to the remote drive (FAT) containing my documemnts and can access tnem fine
I was planning to use time machine but learned i broke two golden rules
a) Its a FAT based drive that I want to backup b) It is a remote drive and Time Machine can only handle physically connected drives
I guess I could script top copy the documents to a local drive and then use Time Machine. Any software that woudl avoid the new to copy 5 gig of data ?Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I would like to install os x Yosemite public Beta 2, since I have only one external hard drive and that one is my time machine, I made two partitions of it, one is backup and second for Yosemite.
Info: MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have used a Samsung HX 1Tb external hard drive under OSX Snow Leopard with absolutely no problem. Since I upgraded to the free (improved?!?) OSX Mavericks my Macbook Pro cannot "see" my hard drive. All I get when I plug it in is the following message -
my MacBook thinks that the hard drive is formatted for windows - but why should it work OK under Snow Leopard but not with Mavericks? I don't want to simply reformat the external drive because I'll lose all the files stored on it.Is there suitable software/Apps that I can use to let my Mac access this external hard drive.Incidentally my partners new Macbook Air can still read this hard drive.
Info: MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Can I create a fusion drive using an ssd partition?
I'll explain myself better: I have a 500GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.
What I would like to do is keeping Mac OS on a 250GB SSD partition and with the other 250GB partition I would like to create a Fusion Drive that does not affect my primary SSD-only partition.
Info: Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 2.6GHz / 16GB Ram
I have a wd external hard drive formatted in ntfs and am now buying my 1st mb air. if i buy a new mac approved hard drive and copy all my old files to the new hard drive using my pc, will i be able to both read and write on my new mac book? what if i used the mac book to copy the 2 hard drives to take advantage of the faster usb 3's would that still work?
I keep getting a message that my disk has not been ejected correctly when I haven't done anything to my G Drive. This happens frequently. It is my back up drive connected to my iMac running OSX version 10.9.4
Using Mavericks on main MacBook Pro and Snow Leopard on second MacBook Pro. (another user in house with windows laptop, but for now really need to get the Macs going on this)
Have a new 3T external hard drive (mac/pc compatible). There is a USB connection on back of Verizon router. Connected hard drive there.
I don't know how to "see" the hard drive from the MacBook Pro?
Earlier I connected the drive to both Macs. The main Mac used Disk Utility and partitioned/formatted as MS dos (so windows can use, too). Was able to complete TimeMachine backup.
Now I want to use the hard drive through the router so the Macs (and windows pc) can backup/access the hard drive.
How do I do this? Where on the Mac do I enable or set up?
Or, do I set it up via the router's settings?
I'm not knowing where to begin. Router is working fine. Can access internet.
I need to install Maveric on a computer that only has dial up service. Can I burn the install program to a flash drive and then take it to the new computer and install it? How?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
