[X-Newbies] Lost Disc / iPhoto library

[Tony Johansen]

On 13/1/2006 3:44 AM, "Al Poulin" <alpoulin at cox.net> wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Tony Johansen wrote:
> 
>> Emergency problem here, one of my external drives accidentally was
>> disconnected while doing some other work. I got a box stating that the
>> disc
>> had not been dismounted correctly.
>> 
>> Upon reconnection 5 of the 6 partitions remounted on the desktop, the
>> 6th
>> did not appear at all. And guess what, its the one with the iPhoto
>> library
>> on it. All 7,000 photos.
>> 
>> Looked in Disc Utility and can see the 'lost' partition, I verified
>> the disc
>> and it came up as being ok. So I unmounted it then tried to unmount the
>> other partitions.
>> 
>> Here it gets weird, one of the mounted partitions cannot now be
>> unmounted.
>> When attempting to do so a box appears saying it is in use and to quit
>> applications. There are no applications open. However I discovered on
>> the
>> desktop a folder with the same name as the partition that won't
>> unmount. I
>> can't get rid of that folder, it will not delete and if I try to move
>> it
>> 'into' the partition it becomes an alias and the original still sits
>> on the
>> desk top
>> 
>> So I have one partition that won't unmount, and one that won't mount.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> I would try DiskWarrior on it.  And maybe TechToolsPro.
> 

 Thank you for coming to the rescue. Regarding using DiscWarrior:  how? Not
used them, but am prepared to buy Disc Warrior if there is a reasonable
chance of success.


Tony
http://www.tonyjohansen.com
A Life Of Art