[X4U] Re: 10.3.7 and backing up Firewire drives - solved -

FC Farwell frankfarwell at mac.com
Sat Jan 15 07:36:33 PST 2005


On Jan 10, 2005, at 12:04 AM, 
x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> From: Randy B.Singer <randy at macattorney.com> wrote
>
>
>> FC Farwell said:
>
>> When I  start to copy a file from my main drive to a FW drive Ill get 
>> a message like icon file is
>> locked and it cancels.
snip
>
>
> OS X 10.3.7 introduced a large number of FireWire problems for users.
> There is a bunch of discussion about it on the Mac news and repair 
> sites.

snip

Randy

I was not going to give up. After running Disk Warrior 3.0.1
on my external firewire drive it now backs up perfectly. Whew!

I had run DW on  my internal drive which did not help - hadn't thought 
about the external until later.

FC Farwell
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