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

[lists3-200402]

FC Farwell <frankfarwell at mac.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

might want to update your diskwarrior. it's at 3.0.2 (rev 35). kudos 
for not giving up.

don

don montalvo, nyc