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  Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) The Translucent Amoebae <thetranslucentamoebae@gmail.com> - 2013-11-18 12:43 -0800
    Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-18 15:32 -0800
    Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) billy@MIX.COM - 2013-11-19 00:51 +0000
      Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-18 20:50 -0500
    Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-19 01:21 -0500
      Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) The Translucent Amoebae <thetranslucentamoebae@gmail.com> - 2013-11-20 12:51 -0800
        Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-20 18:26 -0500
    Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-20 13:20 -0800
    Re: Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD ) Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-20 18:27 -0500

#52430 — Gawd! i hate computers! ( New HD )

My Original HD ( 160Gb ) lasted about 7 years, and then it started expressing an 'Invalid Node Structure' a few times too many. It started off fixable, but then less so as it came up again and again.
The Curious thing is; The MacBook worked fine right up until ( each time ) it crashed. 
i had an Apple Genius run a full diagnostic on it, and it turned out to have a bad section 9 and about 700 assorted errors. 
So i decided to get a new HD.
A 250Gb one from Amazon, but whoever sent it, sent the wrong one, which i didn't discover until i showed it to some guys at a local computer shack that were going to install it. ( Apple wouldn't - they didn't have a HD for my old Mac, and they wouldn't install a 3rd Party Unit ) 
Everyone was telling me that it would be Easy to do myself, but i've had some experience with Nerds telling me that something would be easy.
'If you know how to do something, It's the Easiest thing in the World, But if You Don't know how to do it, It's Impossible.'
From watching some YouTube Videos of this Process; i decided that not only would i have to buy an $80 Set of Custom T Wrenches that i would use once, But more importantly, i would need to Troubleshoot any Complications, which i clearly couldn't do; So that's why i took it to somewhere else to get them to install it.
So instead of coming back when i straightened The Messed up Delivery out; i bought a 500Gb Unit from them. 
All Installed, Seems to work - But.
But when i run a Disk Utility / Verify Disk Routine on it;
This comes up.
Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.

Then it Stops.
It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the Usual 
'Everything seems to be OK.'
or whatever that usually is.

How Worrisome is this ?

Thanx !!!

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#52435

On 2013-11-18 20:43:25 +0000, The Translucent Amoebae said:

> But when i run a Disk Utility / Verify Disk Routine on it;
> This comes up.
> Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
> Performing live verification.
> Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
> Checking extents overflow file.
> Checking catalog file.
> Checking multi-linked files.
> Checking catalog hierarchy.
> Checking extended attributes file.
> Checking volume bitmap.
> Checking volume information.
> 
> Then it Stops.
> It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the 
> Usual'Everything seems to be OK.'
> or whatever that usually is.
> 
> How Worrisome is this ?

I don't know. I've noticed that my hard drive has returned this kind of 
info since I started using 10.9.

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#52436

The Translucent Amoebae <thetranslucentamoebae@gmail.com> writes:

> Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )

> It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the Usual 
> 'Everything seems to be OK.'
> or whatever that usually is.
> 
> How Worrisome is this ?

Maybe something's choking on the "&" in the name?
You could try renaming it and see if it works...

Billy Y..
-- 
        sub     #'9+1   ,r0             ; convert ascii byte
	add     #9.+1   ,r0             ; to an integer
	bcc     20$                     ; not a number

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#52437

In article <l6ecmi$8uf$1@reader2.panix.com>, <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:

> > Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
> 
> > It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the Usual 
> > 'Everything seems to be OK.'
> > or whatever that usually is.
> > 
> > How Worrisome is this ?
> 
> Maybe something's choking on the "&" in the name?
> You could try renaming it and see if it works...

& is a valid character in a path.

hfs forbids : but the unix apis convert it to / and some mac apis
convert it back to :

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#52440

On 11-18-2013, 15:43, The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
> So instead of coming back when i straightened The Messed up Delivery out; i bought a 500Gb Unit from them.
> All Installed, Seems to work - But.
> But when i run a Disk Utility / Verify Disk Routine on it;
> This comes up.
> Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
> [snip].
>
> Then it Stops.
> It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the Usual
> 'Everything seems to be OK.'
> or whatever that usually is.

How many files are on it?

Is the progress bar at the end?

If not, try marking the end of the progress with something 
non-permanent, and check in an hour whether it has moved.

I've seen some of my large disks with lots of files take hours to 
finish.  I don't think it's just that there are lots of files, I think 
it's that PLUS some other factor.

-- 
Wes Groleau

   There are some ideas so wrong that only a
   very intelligent person could believe in them.
                         — George Orwell

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#52456

On Monday, November 18, 2013 10:21:27 PM UTC-8, Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 11-18-2013, 15:43, The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
> 
> > So instead of coming back when i straightened The Messed up Delivery out; i bought a 500Gb Unit from them.
> 
> > All Installed, Seems to work - But.
> 
> > But when i run a Disk Utility / Verify Disk Routine on it;
> 
> > This comes up.
> 
> > Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
> 
> > [snip].
> 
> >
> 
> > Then it Stops.
> 
> > It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the Usual
> 
> > 'Everything seems to be OK.'
> 
> > or whatever that usually is.
> 
> 
> 
> How many files are on it?
> 
> 
> 
> Is the progress bar at the end?
> 
> 
> 
> If not, try marking the end of the progress with something 
> 
> non-permanent, and check in an hour whether it has moved.
> 
> 
> 
> I've seen some of my large disks with lots of files take hours to 
> 
> finish.  I don't think it's just that there are lots of files, I think 
> 
> it's that PLUS some other factor.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Wes Groleau

The Progress Bar is Gone, which makes me think that it's finished ?

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#52460

On 11-20-2013, 15:51, The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
> On Monday, November 18, 2013 10:21:27 PM UTC-8, Wes Groleau wrote:
>> On 11-18-2013, 15:43, The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
>>> Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
>>> [snip].
>>> Then it Stops.
>>
>>> It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the Usual
>>> 'Everything seems to be OK.'
>>> or whatever that usually is.

>> How many files are on it?
>> Is the progress bar at the end?
>
> The Progress Bar is Gone, which makes me think that it's finished ?

Maybe.  But no "appears to be OK" message in green, or "unable to 
repair" in red or completion message in a color I don't remember?

(check for a scroll bar)


-- 
Wes Groleau

People would have more leisure time if it weren't
for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
                        — Peg Bracken

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#52457

On 2013-11-18 20:43:25 +0000, The Translucent Amoebae said:

> But when i run a Disk Utility / Verify Disk Routine on it;
> This comes up.
> Verifying volume “Cheese&Bologna” ( Replaced CheeseCake )
> Performing live verification.
> Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
> Checking extents overflow file.
> Checking catalog file.
> Checking multi-linked files.
> Checking catalog hierarchy.
> Checking extended attributes file.
> Checking volume bitmap.
> Checking volume information.
> 
> Then it Stops.
> It doesn't report any Errors, but it doesn't end with the 
> Usual'Everything seems to be OK.'

By the way my experience with this is inconsistent.  I just did a check 
and it again says, "This disk seems to be okay." Or whatever that 
less-than-enthusiastic marker is for "not broken".

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#52461

On 11-18-2013, 15:43, The Translucent Amoebae wrote:

[snip]

Suggestion: We already know you hate computers.  So, why not retire that 
phrase or make it your pseudonym, and use the subject line for its 
intended purpose?

-- 
Wes Groleau

People would have more leisure time if it weren't
for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
                        — Peg Bracken

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