I had to remove an application in Mac OS X. I've never really bothered with this before, but thought I'd like to know the process of removal. Well, it isn't as straight-forward as Microsoft OSs such as Windows XP (and yeah, I know that not all applications are removed cleanly by install/remove programs).
Here are a few tips.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Backup Drive Corrupted
I was on vacation and upon return noticed that my periodical backups hadn't been running since the 21st of Jan. I back up data using Time Machine, to a LaCie 750GB drive.
I hadn't restarted the iMac in awhile (to which the drive is attached), so I restarted it...that didn't get it working. I also restarted the drive itself...no resolution either.
I opened up Disk Utility and it saw the drive, so now I'm running a "verify disk" and "repair". I'm hoping this fixes the issue, but I'm now wary, as it's taking quite a while, but this is probably due to the size of the drive. Also, maybe there's a ton of errors? I don't know.
I'd hate to lose the data on this drive. Perhaps I need to think of some type of backup procedure of the backup drive (maybe backing it up every six months or so).
It might be time to look at a different solution.
EDIT: Yeah... Disk Utility couldn't repair the partition, so I had to erase it to get it working again. It is fine now, but I think I'm going to need to periodically back up the back-up drive. Lost a LOT of pictures and such. I'm actually thinking on using a cloud-based storage solution.
I hadn't restarted the iMac in awhile (to which the drive is attached), so I restarted it...that didn't get it working. I also restarted the drive itself...no resolution either.
I opened up Disk Utility and it saw the drive, so now I'm running a "verify disk" and "repair". I'm hoping this fixes the issue, but I'm now wary, as it's taking quite a while, but this is probably due to the size of the drive. Also, maybe there's a ton of errors? I don't know.
I'd hate to lose the data on this drive. Perhaps I need to think of some type of backup procedure of the backup drive (maybe backing it up every six months or so).
It might be time to look at a different solution.
EDIT: Yeah... Disk Utility couldn't repair the partition, so I had to erase it to get it working again. It is fine now, but I think I'm going to need to periodically back up the back-up drive. Lost a LOT of pictures and such. I'm actually thinking on using a cloud-based storage solution.
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