Hi, I notice this only after my machine is restarted, it doesn’t happen after reboot, or when it wakes from sleep. Can you reproduce the problem in any way? Angelo a.rock...@gmail.com
On Dec 30, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I have an external 1TB hard drive I had actually bought through Apple, that > is attached via usb hub to my airport extreme. It is partitioned so that one > volume is my backup volume for time machine and the other just a place I > store data. Not infrequently, my time machine reports that it cannot find the > disk. When I open finder and look for the hard drive myself and the volumes, > once I reach airport extreme in the sidebar and vo+right arrow to the browser > section, my volumes are not there. The only thing I can do is to disconnect > the usb cable and reconnect it for the hard drive to be visible in finder > again. > > I had done a lot of research before I went down the route of attaching a hard > drive to airport extreme in this way and it should work in theory. Has > anybody else noticed this behavior? It’s annoying because I sometimes do not > know whether time machine is backing up as it should or not, and then when I > check manually when the last backup was performed, it might be a few days > prior. Is the way I have my external hard drive connected unstable in your > opinion? I know that Apple prefers us all to have the time capsule but that’s > expensive. I wonder whether I’d be better off attaching my external drive > manually once a day to the usb port on the computer and backing up in this > way. Inconvenient but at least I would know the backup has happened. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
