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difficulties with Alias in 10.5.8
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several times now my MacPro with 10.5.8 cant remember an alias, ie when I open the alias the beachball goes round and round and it doesnt open the original folder.
so I make a new one dump the old one and then in a while after a few or maybe ever one reboot it doesnt know whats happening with the alias
any ideas? Sx of something worse?
many thanks
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MacPro 2.66 dual 3GB RAM 1.5 TB HD's
24" + 21" Samsung flat panels
Miglia mini HD (Great!)
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Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
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I'd run Disk Utility pronto. Your drive could be dying.
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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Mac Elite
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thanks for the reminder:
a fair number of permissions were repaired and the verify said the disk was OK
should I boot from 10.6 ( on another HD) and do a repair if under 10.5.8 it said the boot disk was OK?
thanks again
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MacPro 2.66 dual 3GB RAM 1.5 TB HD's
24" + 21" Samsung flat panels
Miglia mini HD (Great!)
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Yes. Also, check SMART status.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Mac Elite
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Smart says verified and will check into a reboot from an install disk very soon
thanks
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MacPro 2.66 dual 3GB RAM 1.5 TB HD's
24" + 21" Samsung flat panels
Miglia mini HD (Great!)
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I would not trust SMART, it does not catch a lot of stuff. If this was me, I'd install a new HD just to be safe.
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Mac Elite
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many thanks for these tips. i ran DFAid from another boot drive and everything was OK
I remembered I had TechToolPro so ran that and although it passed the SMART test it did almost fail in Powercycle count and did fail in temperature changes
Im sorry I dont know how to insert and image of that test and really dont know what the temperature changes failure means. the three other drives in the machine, but maybe not active for long ( asleep ) were all 'pass'
so I ordered another drive
that being said I may have to ask for help in transferring all from this HD to the new one.
thanks again!
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MacPro 2.66 dual 3GB RAM 1.5 TB HD's
24" + 21" Samsung flat panels
Miglia mini HD (Great!)
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