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SuperDuper and External Hard Drive: Follow Up, I'm Backed Up!!!! Yippeeee :D

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What in the world is up with the FreeAgent Desk Seagate Drive? It seems that the external HD has some files or software in there that messes things up when wanting to format the drive for Mac OS extended (journaled). Bizzarro. Here's a tiny time line of my day with sprinkles of troubleshooting along the way.

10 am Up, exhausted (I know LATE, but the mighty Hunter decided to nurse basically throughout the night....non stop almost....I know)

10:30-11:30 am Breakfast for Hunter and I. Hunter clean up.

11:30-12:30 Erica, our lovely babysitter came over to watch Hunter while I interviewed Michael Londra. Was able to read comments and tweets regarding my rant yesterday. 

1 pm- 2:30 pm Hunter fell asleep!!!! At this time, I got a chance to email Victor Cajiao and Dave Nanian from SuperDuper. I also got on the phone with a new journalist/documentary producer that I'm going to be working with and had to meet today. Finally was able to get into SuperDuper and begin to see that the trouble was all about the HD. The fabulous Victor called me and he talked me through what needed to be done. Right as I was about to attempt to do what Victor told me to do, Hunter woke up. 

2:30-3:30 pm Had to get Hunter and myself ready to go out in the mid forties windy weather to meet with journalist at the Co-op, and walked to the Co-op.

3:30-5:30 pm Meeting at the Co-op + Lunch

5:30-6:30 pm Was finally able to focus a bit on the formating issue at hand as Hunter's Daddy had gotten her some new Elmo DVD's and I put one on as I dove into disk utility. I found that there were still troubles and decided to call Victor to speak with him. We had a productive conversation solving the problem.

6:30 pm Finally backed up with SuperDuper! 

What was the problem: After partitioning the ext HD, only one partition formatted properly, the other one was unable to be verified or repaired:

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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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Where did it go?

I have finished my podcast but ran into a little problem. I saved when I was making it and at the end. I then closed it. When Iopened it up I had lost most of my audio, is there a simple way of restoring or do I have to put it all in again?
 
Cindy

Cindy,

A couple of questions for you. Are you sure that when you saved, you didn't do a "Save As..." and save the completed project in a different folder or in another name? One thing to check is to open up Camtasia and in the File menu, look for an option to "Open Recent..." If you did have more than one version of your podcast, it may show up in that list.

If that does not help, just remember that each time you do a voice narration in Camtasia, you are prompted to save that bit of audio as a file. Any voice narration that you have done, whether it is in your timeline/podcast or not, should be saved somewhere on your computer. Hopefully, all of your voice narration files are in your project folder and all you have to do to get them back into your project is to click on "Import Media" on the left side of the Camtasia window, browse to your voice narration files, and then drag them into the appropriate place in your podcast timeline from the clip bin.

If they are not in your project folder, or you didn't take the time to create a folder and organize all of your resources there, then you'll have to do some digging to find those audio files. This is why we stress organizing all of your project media into one place - it does take a little bit of extra time and effort, but it is WELL worth it if something like this does happen. If you can't find the files, try to do another short voice narration and when you save it, pay close attention to where Camtasia tries to save it - the rest of your files are probably there.

If all of that fails, then either Paul or I will spend some time with you on Friday at the conference to see if we can help. Good luck, and we'll see you tomorrow!

Clint

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Установка Debian Lenny в виртуальную среду MS Hyper-V: проблема с определением сетевой карты.

Недавно по работе появилась необходимость установить Debian Lenny как виртуальную машину MS Hyper-V. В процессе установки возникла проблема: инсталлятор не мог определить сетевую карту. Решилось все путем (не)хитрых махинаций:
1. Выключаем гостевую виртуальную машину, если она запущена.
2. Удаляем текущий сетевой адаптер.
3. Добавляем новый сетевой адаптер Legacy Network Adapter (пункт Add Hardware) конфигурируем сеть.

4. Запускаем виртуальную машину и радуемся жизни, т.к. все должно заработать.

Бред линуксоида...: Установка Debian Lenny в виртуальную среду MS Hyper-V: проблема с определением сетевой карты.

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Self-healing iMacs?

I've been fighting with Mac problems ever since shortly after I moved it from Troy to Ann Arbor. The 10.5.8 patch I tried to install after getting it set up froze during install and, after waiting a good half hour, I gave up and shut it down.

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Invalid node structure under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

"When you do a Google search, some sites suggest using the command line utility fsck_hfs with the -y option (assume Yes to every question.. if you run an fsck on a damaged filesystem you’ll usually see why this is a good idea).  That didn’t work for me, it would just crap out again the same way Disk Utility had.  What DID work was the following.. (after a sudo su -)

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting from Michael Zogot on Vimeo.

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