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- Ahh, no signal (in the jungle)June 22
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- Too damn tall, Florida editionDecember 28 2007
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- More Apple woes ... Asus, anyone?December 27 2007
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I wanted to copy some files from an external HD onto my MBP. However, the drive appears to be corrupted, and won't mount under 10.4. However, it will mount under 10.5. So, I use my PB12 (with 10.5) to mount the drive, and get ready to copy the files off of it. However, soon realize that I don't have enough free space on any other drives to accommodate the files I'm trying to copy. Decide to use my MBP as another external drive for the PB12, to copy the files directly from one to the other. But, somehow the MBP drive becomes corrupted during the copy. Leopard? Not sure.
Can no longer boot the MBP, although not completely despondent yet because I have a backup via JungleDisk (set to do hourly backups - sweet). Poke around a bit and manage to mount it on the PB12 and run Disk Utility against it. No dice. Then reboot it and get into command line, running fdsk against it. No dice. Reboot again and it actually boots. Everything works, have access to my files, happy briefly. However, Disk Utility still reports failures, and ... oh wait ... my Desktop and Dock settings aren't saved between logins. Something's corrupted in there. And my Preferences folder alternatively shows 12 files and 50+ files, depending on when I open it.
So I decide to use my MBP install disks to rebuild it, but don't have space on an external drive to back everything up. (Would use JungleDisk, but it'd be too slow to download.) So I take the MBP, boot it into target disk mode, and t - Second choiceDecember 25 2007
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So when Magic Kingdom is full, they redirect people to other places
within the complex. Wonder if the people working at Epcot feel like
second-choice employees.
- Next time she packs, I'm renting a U-HaulDecember 24 2007
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Vacation baggage woes
