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bear with me, this is kind of confusing to explain.
Azureus crashed my G5 tower yesterday, when I restarted and relaunched it, the program said that my torrents could not be found, even though they were in the same place as before.
when I selected "show in finder" to see if the torrents were linked properly a "volumes" folder came up with my drives, but instead of there just being a drive alias for "external HD" there was also a network icon for the same drive called "external HD 1" which azurues was linking to, and that was empty.
I tried googling my problem and found something about Azureus creating an invisible mount-point to download folders... its all greek to me.
does anyone know what's going on? am i doing something wrong? is there a way to let azureus relink to the files?
another problem having, besides losing my torrent links is now when i try to open a file in that drive from WITHIN any application, i have to press command-O to navigate a folder, double clicking doesn't work. And it seems that the system is seeing the drive as "external HD 1" and not "external HD"
I know its all a bit confusing, but I'd be grateful for any help.
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griffman 
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 12:23 PM
Eject the external, then disconnect its cable. Then use Shift-Command-G in the Finder to open the /Volumes folder. You should see an entry for 'external HD'. Drag it to the trash. Reconnect the external and all should be better.
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 01:53 PM
Just in case you're curious /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif...
When the machine crashed, it wasn't able to properly clean up the "External HD" link in /Volumes. When you rebooted and had the drive attached, it found it already had an entry in /Volumes, so it created another with the "1" in its name. Since the first one is a phantom, programs wouldn't be able to use it, but they also wouldn't see the new one for what it really was, since its name was wrong.
Trashing the corrupted entry in /Volumes lets the system recreate it the next time the drive is attached.
This same thing will happen, BTW, if you have iTunes or iPhoto set to store images on an external drive, then run those apps without the drive connected. They'll create their own entries in /Volumes, and the next time you connect the external, it's "...1" and all of a sudden, you can't find your library!
-rob.
When the machine crashed, it wasn't able to properly clean up the "External HD" link in /Volumes. When you rebooted and had the drive attached, it found it already had an entry in /Volumes, so it created another with the "1" in its name. Since the first one is a phantom, programs wouldn't be able to use it, but they also wouldn't see the new one for what it really was, since its name was wrong.
Trashing the corrupted entry in /Volumes lets the system recreate it the next time the drive is attached.
This same thing will happen, BTW, if you have iTunes or iPhoto set to store images on an external drive, then run those apps without the drive connected. They'll create their own entries in /Volumes, and the next time you connect the external, it's "...1" and all of a sudden, you can't find your library!
-rob.
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