I have been known to remove a chin here and there, not to mention many zits and shiny noses. Let me take a look at them.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Ginger - Jun 23, 2011 3:44:24 pm PDT #17019 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
quester - Jun 24, 2011 5:35:46 am PDT #17020 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Does anyone have any advise for me on my WD external hard drive? My computer won't recognize it anymore and it has all my back up data on it.
quester - Jun 18, 2011 9:30:49 pm PDT #16990 of 17020
le nubian - Jun 24, 2011 5:41:59 am PDT #17021 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
quester,
open up disk utility and see if you can repair it. that would be my first suggestion.
le nubian - Jun 24, 2011 5:42:27 am PDT #17022 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
when you plug it in, do you hear clicking? does it light up?
le nubian - Jun 24, 2011 5:55:58 am PDT #17023 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I cannot remember who here was asking, but someone wanted to manage photos a bit better between iphone and computer. There are two apps with mac clients that might be helpful:
photosync or cinq photo.
cinq photo's link is here: [link]
quester - Jun 24, 2011 6:19:33 am PDT #17024 of 25501
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
It does light up, just like it's supposed to, le nubian.
I haven't tried the disk utility. Will report back!
§ ita § - Jun 24, 2011 6:19:37 am PDT #17025 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We've just transitioned to Windows 7 at work, and I'm having some adjustment issues. The assumption is that it will be more stable than what we had before, but...whoah. Alt Tab is just not like it used to be. It doesn't seem to reliably flip me back to where I last was, plus everything goes transparent and it's really annoying. Am I stuck with that?
But most damaging, pop ups aren't taking focus, and the task bar isn't really very obvious. So when instant messages come in, or Outlook is telling me I have a meeting, I'm not noticing. Is there some setting I'm missing?
Consuela - Jun 24, 2011 6:39:41 am PDT #17026 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I can't help you, ita. We got a proprietary secure version of W7 here, and after over a year, I still hate it. And the system doesn't seem to me to be any more stable: it still can't handle having IE, Word, Outlook, and Excel all open at once.
Jesse - Jun 24, 2011 6:43:52 am PDT #17027 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
After using it for a little bit at home last night, I'm pretty sure I liked Vista better than Win7. @@
le nubian - Jun 24, 2011 6:45:05 am PDT #17028 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
quester,
I cannot remember if you said: but sometimes a bad USB port has affected my ability to see and read/write from an external hard drive. This is especially true on my 3 year old macbook pro that had a failing motherboard. Check to see if other things can be read on the USB port. Do you have an ipod or iphone that can be charged using that port? Can you see if another computer can read it?
If disk utility does repair it, you need to buy another hard disk soon, like ASAP. if disk utility can repair it, get all your most important stuff off it and on to a computer/hard disk.
If disk utility does not work, there are other tools out there to extract information, but let's cross that bridge if we come to it.