[Ham-Mac] How to Screw up your HD

[Bob Nielsen]

Perhaps a unix-ish approach would be:

1.  Start a terminal session.
2.  Do "ps ax" in the terminal and find the PID of the copying process.
3.  Do "sudo kill -9 <PID>"
4.  Do "rm Desktop/*.jpg" (assuming the pictures are .jpg files).  Or  
if nothing else in on the Desktop (other than the drives), "rm  
Desktop/*".

On Mar 15, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Rick Prather wrote:

> 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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