[OT] Strange OSX Problems

[Mark Wieder]

Peter Haworth <pete at ...> writes:

> 
> Thanks Pierre, I'm afraid it's looking like I will have to get a new hard
> drive.  Thank goodness for Time Machine!

Interesting. I just had the opposite experience. My Time Machine drive
seemed like it was active constantly, and it took forever to copy a few
megabytes of data to the drive. I finally realized, after some googling,
that it was a faulty backup drive. I reformatted the drive, ran disk
utility, and Time Machine is happy again. I no longer have backups past this
last weekend, but that's a small price to pay for actually having backups
now that I can rely on.

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 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net