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Article #156Re: Intermittently stripey Hard Drive icon in OSX
From: Vaughan Wittorff
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:37
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:37
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PageNinja wrote: > > Vaughan Wittorff wrote: [anally added back in for completeness by VW] > > I have noticed a strange bug in Mac OS X 10.1.6, on an iBook. > > Everything will be fine for some time. Then after some hours/days of > > having the machine running, often (but not always) after one or more > > sleep/wakeups, single- or double-clicking on the main desktop Hard > > Drive icon will cause it to change to a darker-grey version (as usual) > > but with one, two or three thick black horizonal bands across the icon. <stuff deleted> > > Has anyone seen similar behaviour? Any educated guesses about the > > cause? And most importantly: Is there a cure? (please don't say > > upgrade to Jaguar or Panther - I'm intending to do that sometime > > soon anyway) > > > mmfmfmf mf Jagmff om Panmff - they fix it. Annoying it was to me too. I'd > wait for Panmff now though. So does that mean you used to see the same on OSX 10.1? That would make me happy - at least in the sense that I'm not alone (at least didn't used to be until I was the last with 10.1). And you know for a fact that Jaguar fixes it? That would also make me happy. I guess no-one would actually have a cure in OSX 10.1 though?... Vaughan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc20b,132778d8897c09e7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc20b,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,132778d8897c09e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1156c9,132778d8897c09e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1156c9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-18 15:39:25 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Vaughan Wittorff <"vww20"@(nospam)cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.system,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: Intermittently stripey Hard Drive icon in OSX Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:37:04 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 28 Message-ID: <bhrkiq$5e9$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <bhrh5r$30v$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <BB670EF4.4940%allan@morvern.freeserve.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: vww20.joh.cam.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en