[David Hall]

Open Terminal (Applications>Utilities>Terminal
If you know the name of your boot drive, type open *boot drive name* and press enter.
(Ex: open Macintosh_HD). This should open the top level of the drive in Finder.

If you do not know the name off hand you can do the following (still in Terminal):
cd /Volumes (enter)
ls (enter)
This will give you a list of all available Volumes on your machine.

At the top of the window that opens you will see the name of the volume along with an icon to the left. Drag the icon into the device list in Finder. It should be available from then on.

Also know that in Lion, the User Library is hidden by default if that is what you are trying to find on your system drive.

Let me know if this works for you.

David Hall

[David Hall]

Thanks Chris. I will look into this. Have you ever gone through the process of modifying the etc/smb.conf file? If so, what were the results? Thanks!

David Hall

[David Hall]

Gergo, another way to test would be to add the drive to the “Do Not Index” list under System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy. This will prevent it from being indexed whenever it is plugged in. If it is indeed the spotlight indexing that is causing the sluggishness, this should help alleviate it. I have included a link below with a guide to the process (and how to undo it).

One note, when the drive is not connected from the machine, it will not appear in the list. Once you plug it back in, it should reappear.

Hope this helps.

https://www.usingmac.com/2008/5/9/spotlight-indexing

David Hall

Support Technician
New Media Hollywood

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.6

[David Hall]

Thanks for the help everyone. I will try all of these.

David Hall

Support Technician
New Media Hollywood

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.6

[David Hall]

Jim, there is a Utility available from Apple’s site called Ejectlet that might be of some use as a workaround. I have included the link to it below.

As for the issue itself, if you go into System Profiler and click on either ATA or Disk Burning under Hardware, does the system recognize the second optical drive? Was this a problem before you installed the new OS?

https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/ejectlet.html

David Hall

Support Technician
New Media Hollywood

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.6

[David Hall]

Richard, I have never used MacKeeper. I have, however, found success with Onyx for keeping my system running well. What exactly are you looking to clean up on your editor’s system?

David Hall

Support Technician
New Media Hollywood

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.6

[David Hall]

Gabriel, Below is a link to all of the keyboard shortcuts for the mac OS.

https://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343

As for the ones you specifically asked about:

Select All – Command-A
Copy – Command-C
Paste – Command-V

A wide variety of the keyboard shortcuts are the same as on Windows, only substituting the Command button for Control. These will vary based on the application you are running of course.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

David Hall

Support Technician
New Media Hollywood

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.6

[David Hall]

Alan, Before reinstalling anything, try putting a pair of headphones into the audio out port and see if you are able to control the audio. Sometimes the audio out port will fail on those older laptops and will think there is an output device plugged in when there is none. The upside on those old G4 PowerBooks is that Apple hadn’t integrated the I/O board into the logic board yet, so its a much less expensive fix than the MacBooks and newer models. Let me know if this works for you.

David Hall
Service Manager
Zero One Media Center
Apple Certified Hardware Technician
Apple Product Specialist

[David Hall]

Chris, As long as the drive isn’t physically damaged while its out of the system, it should come right back up when you reinstall it into the system. The only precaution I can think of would be if the drive you are removing is part of a RAID set. In that case you’ll have to make sure that the drives are placed back into the exact same bays as there were previously. If its just a stand alone drive though, you shouldn’t have any issues with removing it and replacing it at a later date.

David Hall
Service Manager
Zero One Media Center
Apple Certified Hardware Technician

[David Hall]

Sorry Ty. As far as I know, Time Machine is exclusive to Leopard. There are a couple of hacks people have developed, but unless you’re really comfortable with Command Line I wouldn’t mess with them.

One option you could go with is to run a program like Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your hard drive to your external. Only problem with these are you have to run them in the foreground and not make changes to the system while their running (changes could lead to a corrupt backup). Best to run them at a time when the system isn’t being used.

David Hall
Service Manager
Zero One Media Center
Apple Certified Hardware Technician