firecat Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 I'm hoping that someone can help me with this. I have a G3 or G4 Mac (not sure which one it is, but most likely a G3) running on OS X version 10.3.9. I have Retrospect set to automatically run at midnight every night, and recently started getting the following error message: Script EasyScript Backup: Not Ready: Can't access catalog for backup set Iomega_HDD, error -43 (file/folder not found) It was running fine before, so why am I getting this message? The book doesn't explain things very well, so I'm hoping that someone here can help explain it in terms I can understand. This is the same message that came up on my computer (the computer I'm writing about is my boss'), and now I can't get Retrospect to run on my computer, either. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 The message you see is because someone moved, renamed or deleted the catalog file Retrospect is trying to use. Go into Configure->Backup Sets and then select the backup set in question. What happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 hi fire, do you log out of the computer at night? if so, OS X will unmount external FW HD's. could this be what's going on here? if so, you should be able to run Retrospect fine during the day, and only be getting this error at night, after you've logged out and unwittingly unmounted the drive so that the files on it, "can't be found". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firecat Posted March 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 the computer with this error message on it is kept on at all times - could that maybe be the problem? Do you think I should restart the computer? And thanks, Lennart, I'll do that tomorrow and let you know what I find. However, I can't run Retrospect on my computer either - now it's just giving me a general error message, but I think it's because there's something going on with the catalog or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Quote: now it's just giving me a general error message, but I think it's because there's something going on with the catalog or something. Maybe it would help if you were just a bit more vague about everything... waltr's question about users being logged into the Finder did not mean is the computer simply on. An OS X machine can be on with no user logged in, in which case any external hard drives will be invisible to Retrospect. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firecat Posted March 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I'm almost embarrassed to tell you how I fixed the problem - the external hard drive was unplugged. I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with Retrospect on my computer. Do you think I should re-install the program on my computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firecat Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Here's the message that I get when I try to configure the backup set that I had been using: "Couldn't open catalog Daily Back Up.cat, error 24205 (chunk file damaged during save). any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Sounds as if your drive might have become unplugged while Retrospect was writing to it, thus corrupting the Backup Set. Try to use the Repair options that are appropriate for your Type of Backup Set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firecat Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Thanks for the advice - I tried to do a repair, but it wouldn't let me do the one that was damaged. I've created another back-up set, and it looks like this one will run without a problem. I'll keep you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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