OK, now I hate my Mac/back software recommendations
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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[^]
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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
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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.
That's a possibility - the worst software on my iBook is the software for my 3G broadband modem. It's bad enough on Windows, but on my iBook, it hits syslog[^] several times a second, which pushes CPU usage upto 100% (it's only a little PowerPC processor). It's as if they released the debug version of the software, with all the trace statements left in.
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That's a possibility - the worst software on my iBook is the software for my 3G broadband modem. It's bad enough on Windows, but on my iBook, it hits syslog[^] several times a second, which pushes CPU usage upto 100% (it's only a little PowerPC processor). It's as if they released the debug version of the software, with all the trace statements left in.
But management says we don't need to spend any money testing the mac version, his son just got an ibook and told him that they're perfect and never have any problems ever. :rolleyes:
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
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But management says we don't need to spend any money testing the mac version, his son just got an ibook and told him that they're perfect and never have any problems ever. :rolleyes:
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
dan neely wrote:
his son just got an ibook and told him that they're perfect and never have any problems ever.
Well, that is true, so long as you don't try to run badly ported Windows software on it :P