PowerFileTroubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Guide

Macintosh-specific Issues

 

 

PowerFile Desktop icon does not

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PowerFile not plugged in. Check that power cord is

appear on Desktop.

 

plugged into unit and into a powered wall outlet or

 

 

power strip. Verify that the FireWire cable is attached

 

 

to the PowerFile and to the computer. Make sure

 

 

that any cards are seated firmly and are seen by the

 

 

OS.

 

- Check that Power button on front panel is depressed

 

 

(Display Window will be illuminated when PowerFile

 

 

is powered on).

 

- Reboot the host computer, and then power-off and

 

 

then power-on the PowerFile.

MFX preference pane does not

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In the Finder, go to your home directory (click the

appear.

 

’Home’ icon). Open the ’Library’ folder. From there,

 

 

open the ’Caches’ folder. Find the

 

 

“com.apple.preferencepanes.cache” file and trash it.

 

 

Log out, and log back in, run system preferences.

“Icon mosaic” is scrambled.

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Open the View Options window in the Finder and set

 

 

the icon size to 32x32.

General

 

 

Cannot read/identify a disc.

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Disc inserted the wrong way. The disc must be

 

 

placed into the PowerFile with the data side to the

 

 

left, and the label side to the right.

 

- Disc has no volume tag. While most commercial CD

 

 

and DVD discs have volume tags, you may

 

 

occasionally come across one that does not. In this

 

 

case, there is nothing for the PowerFile to read, so

 

 

the disc will remain listed as Unidentified disc even

 

 

after the disc has been mounted into a drive.

 

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Disc is damaged, scratched, dirty, etc. Verify that

 

 

there are no scratches, smudges, or data integrity

 

 

issues on the disc.

 

- Disc is blank recordable or rewritable. This should be

 

 

fixed in upcoming releases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PowerFile C200 manual Troubleshooting, Macintosh-specific Issues, General

C200 specifications

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