From: Nick Naym on


Anyone??? Or are we all too busy dealing with John?



In article C7E4B24F.585EE%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid, Nick Naym
at nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid wrote on 4/9/10 10:30 AM:

> I initiated a TM backup on a brand-new volume. It's been running for a
> couple of days (100 GB out of 300 GB completed).
>
> Unfortunately, my system began to behave strangely earlier -- Safari would
> freeze whenever I tried to print from it; Grab would freeze whenever I tried
> to save a snapshot. I force-quit those apps repeatedly, but upon retrying,
> the results were the same. I then tried to force quit (i.e., "Relaunch")
> Finder (that has worked for me occasionally in the past), but couldn't: It
> (Finder) appeared to have actually quit (vanished from the Force Quit
> window; my Desktop vanished as well), and when I attempted to open it as I
> would any other app (via its Dock icon), I got the dialog:
>
> "The application Finder.app can't be opened.
>
> -10810"
>
> Ultimately, I had to do a hard restart (via the power button) to get things
> working again.
>
> My questions are this:
>
> 1. I never experienced a Finder-can't-be-opened error before. What could be
> going on?
>
> 2. TM is now running again. However, it seems to have lost the entire 100 GB
> of data it had backed up: As of this moment, it's showing 900 MB of 300 GB
> completed. I thought TM recovers (though often somewhat slowly) from
> interruptions. Am I wrong?
>
>
>

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