Re- Re: [Mac-talk] Fixing Invalid node structure?

[Mo! Langdon]

At 12:41 PM -0700 7/30/07, Deborah Shadovitz wrote:

>On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Mo! Langdon wrote:
>
>>Prior to backing up my MBP (2.16 Ghz, Mac OS X 
>>10.4.9) last week, I ran Disk Utility, as 
>>usual, and, not as usual, got the following 
>>error message:
>>
>>Invalid node structure
>>The volume RedBook needs to be repaired.
>>
>>Booted from the install disk that came with the 
>>'Book (10.4.6), and that Disk Utility got the 
>>same error and declined to fix it.
>>
>>What will fix this?
>>
>
>Wait....
>You declined to fix it
>or
>Disk Utility did not give you the option to fix it.

Sorry; Disk Utility declined to fix it.

>Always let DU do whatever it can do. Then run it again.

And run it again (and again) until it thinks it's fixed it. Always.

>Only when DU cannot handle the fix task do you 
>need to move on to TTP or DW, or if you have 
>AppleCare, the version of disk repair (also by 
>the TTP people).

:::smacking forehead with heel of hand:::

Duh!! I'd totally forgotten about that disk...

Slán,



Mo!
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