[Mark Sloan]

You can check your logs to see if you have been hacked… Check to see if you have any unusual log ins. Any Mac with something like SSH turned on can be broken into if you use something like Admin Admin for username and password. Little Snitch can check your network activity to see if someone has turned your machine into a spam bot or something….

[Mark Sloan]

You may want to try trashing all preferences with Airport and restarting… that might clean up what repairing permissions cannot.

[Mark Sloan]

– CCC is free and is the only one I know of.
– Clones should be the same size as the original using CCC.
– You can clone just the applications folder, but many settings, including serial numbers are often stored elsewhere so a full clone of the drive is usually better.
– A clone only takes up space on the backup drive, you can save whatever else you want on it.

[Mark Sloan]

The Autostart code only works on the PC. The autostart function for a Mac has to do with the volume structure if I remember correctly, which is why I simply created a file that says “start here”: Macs had to simply open the disc and double click that file, PCs would use the code below and autostart.

https://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm

[Mark Sloan]

Auto-start is turned off by default on Macs, so it isn’t as effective. The only way I have figured out how to do this is to use Toast’s built-in feature for creating the correct autostart disc for a Mac and then adding to that disc image the scripts need for auto-start on PCs. In the end, it wasn’t worth it. I went with more of a start_here.html kind of thing for Macs and PCs simply using the script to launch that same file.

[Mark Sloan]

Well, once your system boots up, choose the DW disk as your Boot disk in the System Preferences. That should make sure it works.

[Mark Sloan]

Don’t have the game, but in general these types of games you need to know the IP addresses of the machines (if the game doesn’t search locally automatically). Go to your Network control panel and look up the IP addresses assigned to your machines. When you connect to a LAN game (I am assuming that is what it is called) enter the IP address of the machine you want to connect to.

Sometimes one machine has to set itself up as the host FIRST, and then the other machine has to connect to THAT machines’ IP address.

[Mark Sloan]

I never heard back from you but maybe others would want to know…
Open the terminal.
Type the following:
cd /Volumes

This will change directories (cd) to the directory that lists all volumes on your machine
then type:
ls

This will list (ls) everything in the Volumes folder. You will then change directory again (cd) to the volume you want to index (if the volume has spaces in the name, type the first couple of letters of the volume name and then tab to autocomplete):
cd volume_name

Check to make sure that this looks right:
ls

Next, we will run the code to put everything on that disk into a text file:
ls -FR > /Users/yourusername/Desktop/filename.txt

This tells the list to put in paths and search through all directories and then output it > to the filename you specify on your desktop. Let me know if you need anything more complicated than this.

[Mark Sloan]

Do you know UNIX at all? Using the ls command you can output the paths and files of everything on a drive really easily to a text file. As for ordering the data… if you get familiar with grep or maybe a text tool, you can “extract” lines out of that file that you need.

But getting the paths and names into a file is pretty easy.

[Mark Sloan]

Is there data you need on it? If not, just reformat it. If so, try going into the terminal and seeing if it is mounted there.

cd /Volumes
hit enter and then on the next line
ls
and hit enter

or just
ls /Volumes
hit enter

If it is not there, you might be able to force it. From Disk Utility look up the Mount Point (I think that is what it is called there). Or try the mount command.
mount
then enter

It should tell you what is recognized by the system.

If this all shows the partition, let us know and we can go from there. At any rate, it would be a copy all data off the disk and reformat it kind of thing.