This morning I noticed that my external had a purple, unblinking status light. I knew it had locked down at that point, and it froze my whole system. I tried to force-quit Transmission so I could safely remove it, but another app was the only one that appeared open and I couldn't call up the Force-Quit menu.
I powered off the external, logged-out, and then logged in, and I noticed a folder on my desktop with the same name as my external, "Firewire External". There are no files in there, but the folder structure has been preserved.
So here's my question: does anyone know what the heck happened, and is it safe to try to reconnect my external?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: For the record, I rebooted the external and everything seems fine now, but I'm heading out now to get some CD-Rs to back up the stuff that's on there. The Desktop Icon is still a folder, and that's annoying, but hopefully that will be fixed with a re-boot at a later time.
Big re-edit: I went to check to see if the files that were on the drive were readable at all, and all of them have been corrupted. All of the torrents that I had, although only a few GB but still my ratios are going to be shot when I try to replace them...; I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I'm pretty pissed off, and I think I'm running out of options.
One more edit: Looks like I just panicked. Clean restart, clean reboot on the external, and clean restore/everything on the iPod (see other thread) seemed to take care of everything.
I powered off the external, logged-out, and then logged in, and I noticed a folder on my desktop with the same name as my external, "Firewire External". There are no files in there, but the folder structure has been preserved.
So here's my question: does anyone know what the heck happened, and is it safe to try to reconnect my external?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: For the record, I rebooted the external and everything seems fine now, but I'm heading out now to get some CD-Rs to back up the stuff that's on there. The Desktop Icon is still a folder, and that's annoying, but hopefully that will be fixed with a re-boot at a later time.
Big re-edit: I went to check to see if the files that were on the drive were readable at all, and all of them have been corrupted. All of the torrents that I had, although only a few GB but still my ratios are going to be shot when I try to replace them...; I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I'm pretty pissed off, and I think I'm running out of options.
One more edit: Looks like I just panicked. Clean restart, clean reboot on the external, and clean restore/everything on the iPod (see other thread) seemed to take care of everything.