Saraswati
03-29-2007, 05:15 AM
To friends with macs: If you don't know about this already, it just might spare you a lot of hassles. T'was a hard-earned lesson! :(
Recently, after updating to OS 10.4.9, I shut down my computer and started it up the next day, only to find all content (about 100 GB of sound libraries) on my external HD had disappeared. A warning popped up saying something like "This disc cannot be read by your computer." The place I would normally click on to repair or restore it was greyed out and therefore inaccessible. My "Mac Repair" friend had no luck either. (This was especially frustrating as I was looking forward to playing some newly-installed sounds!)
The HD is a Glyph, considered excellent for music, and quite new. When I called the company, they said there is a problem with OS 10.4 (nothing prior to that), and this happened to maybe 1 out of 50 people when they update and do not first "eject" the external HD. (I hadn't even known it could be ejected.) One way to do this is command/e. It sounds like the same problem could occur for any external firewire HD. There's even info about it with recommendations on their website--www.glyphtech.com. Fortunately, they have special tools to recover otherwise irretrievable data and offer a free 2-year data recovery serivce, so I sent it off last week. (Oh, the travails of modern technology....)
Hope this is of help to someone.
Saraswati
Recently, after updating to OS 10.4.9, I shut down my computer and started it up the next day, only to find all content (about 100 GB of sound libraries) on my external HD had disappeared. A warning popped up saying something like "This disc cannot be read by your computer." The place I would normally click on to repair or restore it was greyed out and therefore inaccessible. My "Mac Repair" friend had no luck either. (This was especially frustrating as I was looking forward to playing some newly-installed sounds!)
The HD is a Glyph, considered excellent for music, and quite new. When I called the company, they said there is a problem with OS 10.4 (nothing prior to that), and this happened to maybe 1 out of 50 people when they update and do not first "eject" the external HD. (I hadn't even known it could be ejected.) One way to do this is command/e. It sounds like the same problem could occur for any external firewire HD. There's even info about it with recommendations on their website--www.glyphtech.com. Fortunately, they have special tools to recover otherwise irretrievable data and offer a free 2-year data recovery serivce, so I sent it off last week. (Oh, the travails of modern technology....)
Hope this is of help to someone.
Saraswati