SuperDuper and External Hard Drive Rant

SuperDuper and External Hard Drive Rant from Elsie Escobar on Vimeo.

So as of this moment as I'm hastily writing this post I have not addressed any of the issues that I speak of in the video. Welcome to Day 4 of NaVloPoMo (November video blogging month!)

*sigh*

Troubleshooting is for people who aren't mothers to a one year old. 

Upon coming home from teaching I:

 

  • Cleaned up after Hunter's dinner
  • Cleaned up Hunter's play area
  • Hunter shower time
  • Hunter put to bed
  • Swept and tidied up the homestead (while quickly editing video above and uploading it. iMovie rocks for that)
  • Final preparations for interview tomorrow with Michael Londra for iProng Mag

 

Yea, no time to even attempt to launch SuperDuper again...Before shutting down computer I attempted to launch it 3x and not once did it actually load...regarding the external HD, no clue what's going on. It's a 1.5 TB Free Agent Desk External Drive by Seagate. Boo 

****EXTRA EXTRA**** update, it seems all the trouble was due to the external HD and nothing to do with SuperDuper. Read the full update here

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4 comments

Nov 05, 2009
Victor Cajiao said...
Elsie you poor things. Ok so new day new start. Remember if this was a Yoga lesson, doing what you are doing with be a level2 class at least.

So.
1. Repair permissions using disk utilities on your main drive
2. Make sure the partitions you created are Mac OS Extended (Journaled) . you can check that in Disk Utility too. If they are not then reformat the partitions so they are.
3. The support people at Super Duper are fantastic to work with, write to them and I'll assure you that they will help you if it's their software.
4. Next time don't forget your internet brother and call a brother up!

Nov 05, 2009
Philip Campbell said...
forget external drives. pointless they break too easily. one day you'll wake up to it clicking away and lost everything. use an online service like carbonite or backblaze. takes a while to get everything up at first but then you know it's SAFE. that's what i do. ;0

really easy to do as well.

Nov 05, 2009
Elsie Escobar said...
I hear ya Phil, I hear ya. I will be stepping into cloud solutions real quick. I've waited far too long!

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Nov 05, 2009
Elsie Escobar said...
Oh, yea...and it goes without saying...Victor, thanks so much for your help on this today. Great chatting with you :D

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