[Ham-Mac] How to Screw up your HD

[Rick Prather]

I'm sure your blood pressure was going up pretty well during all this  
but I can think if a couple of different "morals"

Number one, don't hit the "panic" button.  You are lucky you  
recovered as easily as you did.

I don't know how many pictures are in your library but you would have  
been better off to let it rip and finish what it was doing and then  
use the <Edit - Undo> command in Finder to "undo" the copy.

BTW, the command to boot from your "Optional" drive is to boot  
holding down the "Option" key.

At least you didn't do what my Mom probably would have done - pull  
the power cord!

Rick
K6LE

On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I did something really dumb this morning and finally recovered.  I  
> was in
> iPhoto selecting five pictures to drag copy to a compact flash  
> card.  I used
> the Select All command and started the copy.   Something did not  
> look right
> then I realized I was in my Library rather than an Album folder and  
> iPhoto
> was copying my whole library of photos to the desktop because I  
> messed up
> dragging them to CF card.  The G4 was going crazy so I hit the  
> panic button
> the front to force a restart.  It restarted but OSX 10.4.5 could  
> not mount
> the desktop.  I had and endless spinning disc.
>
> I could not remember the keyboard combination to force the machine  
> to boot
> from another drive so I messed around with until I could get the  
> DVD drive
> open to be able to insert and boot from the OSX 10.4 startup disc.   
> Finally
> got it to boot and used the Startup option to boot from my Backup  
> HD.  It
> worked find the recovery was to trash the Desktop file from the  
> Primary
> drive and replace it with a copy from the Backup drive.  I did not  
> want to
> do full backup from the backup because I did not want to lose some  
> new stuff
> that was not backed up.  I then had to use the Disc Utility to  
> mount the
> Primary drive so it could be selected as the startup drive. While I  
> had the
> Disc Utility open I repaired the primary drive.  It all worked and  
> I am now
> back on the Primary HD. Humpty-Dumpty is back together again.
>
> The moral to this shaggy-dog story is NEVER use the iPhoto Select  
> All if you
> are in the Library.  Everything is now working great thanks to  
> Carbon Copy
> Cloner and having a good backup drive.
>
> I was trying to do too many things at the same time really messed up.
>
> TNX for reading
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU
>
>
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