Can't Macs handle you just yanking the USB storage device straight outta the port?

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Originally posted by Bravus:
Anabel - just drag the icon for the USB to the trashcan. It will turn into an eject sign. Not exactly intuitive, but it's how you eject everything on the Mac.

Or use a Finder window where every USB device should have a 'eject' icon.

And the Mac can handle it if you simply yank out a USB device. It just complains about it. And you probably shouldn't anyway.

やっぱり it fixed itself. I hope it doesn't happen again.

...edited to add, I guess it was maybe a problem with sitemeter?

Yah, Macs like to be formally told that something is ejecting before it happens. Drag USB drive icon to trash (or do like Hasa said) and then count to 5 or so before you yank the drive.

I can't find the USB icon. What's it look like?

Hey, and thanks!

It will look like whatever the drive icon is - usually something square. But you can identify it by the name, anyway. Everything that isn't a permanent part of the system has an eject icon next to it. Just click on the arrow and it will eject.


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If you ejected it already, it's gone. Worry not. Sometimes if you've removed improperly, it won't show up properly next time you plug it in and you have to do some turning on and off and such (that's what I've found with my external drive, but that's connected to an aftermarket USB card, and is a situation peculiar to certain PowerPCs, is my understanding; you should have much smoother sailing with your spiffy new machine).

Sometimes it will look like another hard drive on your desktop, called something or other like Olympus or Nikon, for example; or sometimes it will have its own little representative icon like my LaCie drive does, a little orange box. When I connect my card reader, it shows up as a file folder with a weird name that means nothing to me.

It's easiest to see it in the finder window, I think. In my version of OSX (older than yours) it shows up on the upper left side of the finder window.

In your iPhoto window (again, my older version), somewhere between Library (top) and trashcan (bottom) on the left-hand side will be some kind of representative of your camera or memory card, with a little eject symbol to the right. Click on that when you've removed your pics, and it will safely remove the device.

Hope that helps

ETA: And a picture is worth a couple hundred words, easily

Actually, I am beginning to wonder if Leopard still shows mounted drives on the right by default. I can't remember off the top of my head--only that they changed the defaults. Hmm, I am thinking that they still show mounted drives by default, but no longer show mounted server volumes?

At any rate, if it is there, it will be in the upper right corner of your desktop. At the very top right, there should be a little metal drive icon. Next time you mount your USB drive, check up there and you should see a little white disk appear in the next position below that. As minx mentions, it's only there while the drive is connected to the machine though.

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Originally posted by Sentinel400:
It will look like whatever the drive icon is - usually something square. But you can identify it by the name, anyway. Everything that isn't a permanent part of the system has an eject icon next to it. Just click on the arrow and it will eject.

Yeah, thank you, Sentinel. Though I didn't pick up this message before I took the Mac to work, to confer with a photographer with a Mac, he pointed this out to me. I think I managed to download my early digital pics. Will work on it Sunday, before jazz.

Minx and heavyboots, mu photo guy found the right-side icon below the hard drive icon. Then, I think, I successfully downloaded the photos. But I've got to check everything out. And, get to the tutorial.

Mac specific windows bars I have to get used to, and I am working on it. Your refs help. Thank you.

I am told when I get DSL, the performance will rocket!
Hee!

Managed to 'freeze' my screen before I could log out last night. [I will NEVER sleep on my Mac!]

I wonder if anyone here might be able to help...I haven't done a big google yet, but.

My G3 iBook laptop was giving me all sorts of grief, refusing to boot, etc. Eventually got it to repair itself booting from the disc and using the utility. Started 'er up and all was well and then...it wasn't. Same old crap. It hung, swirling coloured ball. Shut down. Login window that doesn't accept my admin username and password (I've successfully changed them and know what they are).

Drives me mental to the point that I decide to format the bitch, how can it be any worse than it is, and perhaps it will run smoother without any extraneous programs, and I can start out with an older firefox etc. that won't break it, I hope. So I verify and repair everything in sight, and successfully erase and begin the full-blown install. This carries on, fairly slowly but I'm in no rush. And then it hangs as it's doing its BSD (BDS?) something something. It won't go no forrarder. Progress bar stops moving, status stays the same for 30 or 40 minutes, um. Totally stuck. Cursor moves, but nothing will click.

I decide to try to start over again, but now it can't erase what did get installed, and it won't start installing any other way, I can't get the option button to come up in the installer window when I get to that point.

I can make the utility come up, but I don't know what to ask it to do...it will verify, and repair, the HD, but can't erase it (there's a -20 error).

I am prepared to toss it (it's 7 years old, for pete's sake, and deserves retirement), although I will look around online to see what I can see, but wonder if any of you have any bright ideas for a way to make it install OSX.

Minx, you can always try Terminal mode and see if you can get stuff erased from there. It may be that using the lowest level stuff possible will help.

rm -rf /Volumes/YourDiskName/* will try and throw everything away on the disk.

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ NameTheDisk disk0 will attempt to reformat it, I think.

In essence it sounds like a problem with either your hard drive or your install CD. I am sort of betting the hard drive is the issue though, so it may be time to toss it as hard drive probably isn't worth replacing in an iBook that old.

Thanks! I may wait and ask my command line man to try that when he's here, cause I'm a bit lost with that.

Yeah, I concur with Dr Heavyboots that it sounds a lot like a hard drive on the way out. Might be worth a look around for a cheap hard drive, but on the other hand it's a perfect excuse for an upgrade.

Yeah, IIRC that model was not user-friendly for hard drive replacement. I've done it a TiBook, and it involves about 20 miniature screws and a bit of cold sweat whilst working with the very delicate ribbon cables etc. It really depends on how familiar you (or whomever you get to do it) is with these kinds of procedures.

At any rate, if you decide to install a new HD, iFixit has quite thorough instructions you can follow.

EDIT: Ok, I just scrolled through their HD replacement instructions and that HD is ensconced!

If I had any budget I would have a nice used little G4 iBook by now, but my budget kinda vanished when I went to Europe for two weeks!

It's an extra, so it's not the end of the world; I simply find it more convenient to have something mobile.

Thanks very much for your efforts!

I'm doing a seminar presentation next week as part of the selection process for a new job. Here's the topic I've been assigned:

Teacher Education institutions are working in a collaborative, peer to peer knowledge generating, globalised, digitalised world. What will count as quality educational research and scholarship of teaching in this context, and how should a teacher education institution be led and managed to achieve these indicators of quality?

I'm not asking for help with my homework in terms of content - I already have 3 pages of brainstormed notes and probably enough stuff for a 2 hour talk, which I will have to hammer down into 30 minutes.

But I'd kinda like to make the presentation memorable too - rather than the linearity of the traditional PowerPoint approach I'd like to use the metaphor of a network, where there is a network type graphic on the screen with maybe 5 major nodes, maybe a few minor nodes, and I can click around across the nodes to present ideas. The talk will *be* linear but *look* non-linear, and there's potential for including added levels of detail that I won't use during the talk but might access during the question/discussion session.

So, I have access to both PowerPoint and Keynote. Does anyone know of a way to do what I've described in either? I guess the other possible way to do it would be by building a web site, and that might have its own attached kudos, but I think it can be done prettier in software.

I would think it was a lot easier to do it as a website, local on your PC, than try to figure out permutations in PowerPoint. That way you can have your heirarchy and jump around any way you need to depending how questions go etc.

I map out a website in an org chart anyway.

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Originally posted by Bravus:
Teacher Education institutions are working in a collaborative, peer to peer knowledge generating, globalised, digitalised world. What will count as quality educational research and scholarship of teaching in this context, and how should a teacher education institution be led and managed to achieve these indicators of quality?

Dunno if it helps, but I just highlighted all the wank words.

Keep in mind that from an outsider's perspective, there's a very, very fine line between "non-linear" and "disorganised as a sack of cats."

I'm with the website idea. Powerpoint is determinedly linear. I did have a lecturer who worked entirely with localised websites for presentations, and it worked all right, though he did just end up working linearly from either a menu or from page to next sequential page.

Also had a games design lecturer who worked from a macbook, which is kinda like Mick Doohan teaching motorcycle riding by turning up to class on a moped.

Heh, yeah, I definitely spotted the lithos-bait there. Here's someone you might be able to get behind: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24123258-12332,00.html

Not sure whether you'll be pleased or not that one of the things I plan to do is quote this (from the best part of 3000 years ago) at them:

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.