OK, now I hate my Mac/back software recommendations
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Dare I say it? Vista Ultimate's previous versions facility.
*grin* no, even if I ran Vista, that would be useless. I am running a VM, the point is to have a backup EXTERNAL to the semi useless, spectacularly unstable VM Ware virtual machine file format.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Could 10.5.6 have fudged backups/VMWare in any way? I remember it mentioned it contains an "update" related to time machine.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
I did just install that new update. I'm not sure if that's related.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Yeah, because I have tons of free time.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Who said that requires a ton of time to build that, I made my self one but that is in vb6, which checks for the modified time of every pre-listed files every 2 mins and copy them if modified to a specified folder. Now, isn't it easy to code. Believe me that will save you from embarrassment and regret hundreds of time this life time.
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Yeah, because I have tons of free time.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
If you spent the same amount of time coding a solution as you did complaining about the problem... :) (just pokin' you in the ribs - I know how frustrating this kinda crap can be...)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
*grin* no, even if I ran Vista, that would be useless. I am running a VM, the point is to have a backup EXTERNAL to the semi useless, spectacularly unstable VM Ware virtual machine file format.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
This won't solve your lost data problem, but would an external drive for your VM stuff be a viable idea? At least that way, your OS drive would hopefully remain pristine. Is anyone else complaining about this on the VMWare forums?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
If you spent the same amount of time coding a solution as you did complaining about the problem... :) (just pokin' you in the ribs - I know how frustrating this kinda crap can be...)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Complaining is more fun....
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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This won't solve your lost data problem, but would an external drive for your VM stuff be a viable idea? At least that way, your OS drive would hopefully remain pristine. Is anyone else complaining about this on the VMWare forums?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I have a drive just for VMs. I am putting my source externally now. I am reading the VMWare forums right now.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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This may be of no use whatsoever as I don't use Macs. Access the hard drive of a Mac that won’t boot with Target Disk Mode[^]
My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"
Good answer.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I use MESH and add all my code folders to it.
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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I use MESH and add all my code folders to it.
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
What's that ? I am trying to use a shared folder to put all my code in the Mac file system, but XP is having a cow b/c the shared folders are not 'full trust'.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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What's that ? I am trying to use a shared folder to put all my code in the Mac file system, but XP is having a cow b/c the shared folders are not 'full trust'.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I think the address is www.mesh.com - it is a Microsoft hosted cloud thing that you can use to create online versions of your folders that automatically synch any changes. I use it to keep the two dev machines in synch - and I think it works with Macs...?
'--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I don't know much about Macs but I came across this article a while ago it is talking about Macs, virtualisation, backup and stuff that you seem to have been having problems with. So on the off chance that you have not found it yourself and that it might be useful, here it is[^] Hope it is of some help. The Magazine (PCPro) has quite a lot of features relating to using OSX and XP/Vista, perhaps you might find something there.
Honi soit qui mal y pongs - Evil to he who thinks it stinks
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
You can also try http://www.getdropbox.com/[^]. I haven't used it yet but I saw the video and was quite impressive.
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
First, in PC land I love True Image[^]. Second, Time Machine sucks :). Take a look at SuperDuper[^]
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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So, my machine froze again today. As I tried to send a days work to the source control server. I am now using the latest version of VMWare Fusion. The machine just froze, I had no choice but to power down. BUT, before I did, the VM actually shut down, so I thought it may be good. In fact, when I rebooted, it told me my file system was corrupt. I told it not to scan, it seemed OK, except it could not read the folder I had all my code in. So, I let it go. It seems like it's lost every file operation I did today and has this mornings code in it. So, I try to run VS, it claims to be starting for the first time, and when I try to do a build, I get this: Error 1 Metadata file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Drawing.dll' could not be opened -- 'File is corrupt.' Odyssey.Windows.Forms.Controls Followed by a ton of errors saying that parts of the project do not exist. Now, I tried to use boot camp instead, but the disk formatter refused to work, so I had to go with a VM again. TIme Machine didn't do any meaningful backups of the VM today, so, no matter what, my code is lost. I have a seperate backup system, but it last ran pretty early today, so I am not sure it's of much use. Is there any PC software that backs up files hourly, or as soon as they are modified ? That's what I need, given how flaky running a PC in a Mac appears to be.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Christian Graus wrote:
So, my machine froze again today
Christian - do you think it's possible you've got some failing hardware? My iBook has only had unrecoverable problems when hardware's failed (motherboard issue causing a kernel panic). Might be worth taking it to an Apple repair place?
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Thanks :-)
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Christian Graus wrote:
So, my machine froze again today
Christian - do you think it's possible you've got some failing hardware? My iBook has only had unrecoverable problems when hardware's failed (motherboard issue causing a kernel panic). Might be worth taking it to an Apple repair place?
Yeah, I've considered it. I actually think it's my ISP software that kills the Mac, and the VM just plain doesn't like being rudely shut down/
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Thanks :-)
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
If you give it a try, let me know how it works. I got a copy as part of a bundle with a few other utilities but never actually got around to installing it...
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
