In article <1ii9nob.orcuv167m0yaN%rifty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
rifty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Rifty) wrote:
> Emma Grey <gone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Excellent news Rifty. I too believed what I was told about WD. Remind
> > you of WmDs?
> >
> > Emma
>
> A little too much! :) Hi Emma.
>
> But this could turn out to be a WMD if I rely on it as well, because on
> two of my major clips, when viewing them, I have detected a fatal disk
> error for each file, which has frozen the whole computer and forced a
> hit-the-button restart - everything else like Force Quit... *everything*
> was frozen, and I had to then run Onyx to be sure that all was OK with
> the computer.
Ouch. Better now than in say 6 months time I guess.
> So it looks like it will be going back to the manufacturer after all,
> and I am now without a terabyte of disk storage. I'll let you know how I
> fare with them.
Please do. I was of the (perhaps misguided) assumption that the vendor
should take care of this, as they've sold you an item which isn't fit
for purpose (faulty out of the box)
Standard fare should be either a replacement drive or full refund as far
as I'm concerned. YOU shouldn't have to fight with the manufacturer
directly.
> Incidentally, that reminds me. It seems that the wonderful
> keep-your-computer-in-order program, Applejack, does not have a Leopard
> version. That's very sad. Maybe the creator of Applejack has gone
> commercial (not surprising if he did - he would have been a
> multi-millionaire now if he had charged for Applejack over the years).
> So it's Onyx or Cocktail for housekeeping. Onyx is free.
Yes, I was quite disappointed that there's no Leopard compatible version
of Applejack. Having said that, I understand that changes to certain
parts of Leopard mean that it's a fairly extensive project to get
Applejack compatible with the new OS.
This from the horse's mouth on the Applejack website:
> Date: 2008-02-06 09:52
> Sender: kwidholmProject Admin
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>
> Probably months, I'm sorry to say. Developer (me) is working 60+
> hours a week and renovating bis apartment by hand. Because Apple
> refuses to provide any do***entation on the dependencies of their
> utilities in single user mode, getting it to work is a matter of pure
> trial and error. Load launchd X, does diskutil work? No. Okay load
> launchd Y, then launch C, does diskutil work? No. Okay load launchd C
> then launchd Y, oh, hmm. now it kinda does, but hangs. etc etc etc. I
> have tried to talk to them but all I've heard back from them is "This
> is not a user sup****ted scenario".
>
> With about 20 lines of do***entation, I could probably make all the
> necessary changes in 30 minutes flat.
Hell, I'd happily give the guy $50 for his software. It saved me major
headaches when my old eMac went tits up and I had no external drive.
Here's hoping a .5 compatible version is available in the near future.
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