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im also getting this right now as we speak, which i assume has something to do with it (my time machine is seagate)

Mar 28 12:50:02 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Mar 28 12:50:32: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 28 12:50:32 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Mar 28 12:51:00: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 28 12:51:00 Marks-MacBook-Pro mds[37]: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51
Mar 28 12:51:02 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Mar 28 12:51:32: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 28 12:51:33 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[145] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

you don't see anything like this (at least no the internal drive)?

http://www.pondini.org/OSX/DU9_files/DU%209a%20Disk%20Utility%20SMART%20status.jpg

i am a bit confused about which drive your problem is with

is time machine running now?

oh yes! i do see it, sorry i had clicked on the partition. it IS verified.

hmm, that looks like some weird seagate program? did you install anything when you got the drive?

SMART! xp

i am a bit confused about which drive your problem is with

so am i! i keep getting these kernel panic things, but ALSO, time machine is refusing to just go ahead and back up, it seems to stall out on "preparing"

and yes it is running now

and no, i never install that HD add-on software garbage... i don't think!!

i think maybe you did but i'm sure it's harmless

this just happened:

Mar 28 12:55:09 Marks-MacBook-Pro com.apple.backupd[363]: Finished scan

maybe it'll start backing up for real now?

fingers crossed anyway

yeah that is not bad news

still preparing :/

i feel like i've been preparing all my life for this backup

put me in, coach

be prepared

do you remember a panic happening during a TM backup? it could be doing a hardcore verification of the TM disk if that happened, in which case this is normal and good behavior

it actually hasn't done a full and real back up in a couple of weeks for some reason

and it is STILL preparing

i wonder if it is a prob with my time machine hd? is there any way to verify that u think?

I'm really nervous over here for you man

not that i know of. i think you need to sit tight.

the good news is you probably have a working backup in the snese that you can recover from it. if that's the case then you can always start a new time machine disk (via $$$)

where do i get this "$$$"

10.7.5 update

short film revenue iirc

I'm pretty sure that Apple is about to release MacBooks with retina displays, so if that matters to you, you should hold off buying until then.

so one prob seems solved, i think my time machine disk is corrupted. i'm diskwarrioring it now.

aw shit, "no memory" so it can't be rebuilt. i guess time machine crammed it too full or something??? argh

should i just reformat my time machine drive and start over?

maybe first try entering time machine, deleting a bunch of really old back-ups, then disk warrior it again?

how do you do that? i looked for a way in time machine proper but it didn't seem obvi.

deleting stuff in Time Machine is super annoying, you have to click on the gear that is on the Finder window it displays to you that represents the backup and delete from there

I find it totally counter-intuitive

unless you can't afford another drive, if you decide to abandon this one i would start a new time machine on a new disk. check the old one can at least restore the odd file, then move it somewhere, e.g. your parents.

ya that's prob not a bad idea cuz the thing is accessible, even if it is corrupted.

shit.

i hate hard drives.

racist

sigh, is there any hard drive company that is remotely reliable/not crazy expensive these days?

nope

we are going to look back one day and laugh bitterly at this.

market still not recovered from the thai floods i think

I've stuck with Western Digital Caviar Black for a while.

Prices have come a bit down I think.

fwiw WD has always been fine by me

digital caviar sounds delicious

http://thewirecutter.com/2011/10/most-reliable-hard-drive/

^^ interesting piece about why its hard to figure out who makes the best drives

i actually took that guy's advice last time i bought a HD (not the one in questsh)

hard drives suck, keep backups, they all die except for the ones that magically do not

laptop hard drives have gotten better since they have more motion sensors these days, but in the past it was basically a function of how much you moved around the laptop. I think I killed two drives over four years.

desktop drives are a crapshoot, but nothing has been as bad as the bad batch of IBM Deskstars ("death stars") that were in EVERYTHING a number of years ago. I remember that something like 90% of them went bad in under a year

i have so many hard drives :S

sorry for your loss

speaking of hard drives and lion and so forth, why is the mofo indexing the spotlight every time i try to wake it up and thereby locking up

that is really weird, has it not finished a spotlight index at all? maybe the index is corrupted. I think there's a magic way to force it to rebuild those