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I recently had my old iBook G4 die, and I'm in the process of restoring my itunes and iphoto libraries to a new user I created on my wife's macbook air (both libraries had been located on the external drive for some time).
In the process of upgrading my iphoto library for her newer version of iphoto, the indicator light on my airport extreme turned amber, and I lost my network for a few seconds (not sure if this was caused by the iphoto action, or coincidental).
Since that happened, I have been unable to connect to the external drive from the user that I was working under. I've tried deleting the password for the drive from my keychain, manually reconnecting via "connect to server", restarting the hard drive, restarting the airport base station, etc. When I try to connect to the external drive under Finder, I can't even get a login window when I click "connect as" -- it just says "connecting.." in the top-left indefinitely.
I don't think I have a drive problem, as the HD works perfectly under my wife's login on the same macbook air, and also from my iPad. As a test, I connected the drive directly to the macbook under the problematic user, and it worked fine. Disk utility also found no problems.
As a last check, I created a test user on the macbook, and I was able to access the drive over the network just fine from that test user.
I think this is some sort of permissions or preferences corruption issue, but I have no idea how to repair it. I'd rather not have to go through the trouble of creating a new user again, and rebuilding my iTunes and iPhoto libraries all over again...
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
- OSX 10.7.1 Lion
- Macbook Air
- Airport Extreme Base Station
- External HD shared via Airport base station
I recently had my old iBook G4 die, and I'm in the process of restoring my itunes and iphoto libraries to a new user I created on my wife's macbook air (both libraries had been located on the external drive for some time).
In the process of upgrading my iphoto library for her newer version of iphoto, the indicator light on my airport extreme turned amber, and I lost my network for a few seconds (not sure if this was caused by the iphoto action, or coincidental).
Since that happened, I have been unable to connect to the external drive from the user that I was working under. I've tried deleting the password for the drive from my keychain, manually reconnecting via "connect to server", restarting the hard drive, restarting the airport base station, etc. When I try to connect to the external drive under Finder, I can't even get a login window when I click "connect as" -- it just says "connecting.." in the top-left indefinitely.
I don't think I have a drive problem, as the HD works perfectly under my wife's login on the same macbook air, and also from my iPad. As a test, I connected the drive directly to the macbook under the problematic user, and it worked fine. Disk utility also found no problems.
As a last check, I created a test user on the macbook, and I was able to access the drive over the network just fine from that test user.
I think this is some sort of permissions or preferences corruption issue, but I have no idea how to repair it. I'd rather not have to go through the trouble of creating a new user again, and rebuilding my iTunes and iPhoto libraries all over again...
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.