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Sandbox failing oddly
A short while ago I needed to change the size of my Sandbox, which is a partition on the same drive as my main volume ("Macintosh HD"). To do this, I cloned Macintosh HD to an external drive, and then used Disk Utility to repartition the drive. Obviously, this erased the volumes. I then recloned back to Macintosh HD from the external drive and recreated the Sandbox and booted off the Sandbox.
So far so good. A couple of days later, I rebooted my machine (from the Sandbox) and it was as if it booted with a different user (though it didn't--the user was the same, as I only have 1 user set up). All of the user preferences were no longer being respected. I got a "fresh" desktop, and the icons for Documents and Downloads were question marks. I then recreated the Sandbox using "shared users and applications" and "smart copy" and all seemed to be well. A couple of days later, I rebooted again from the Sandbox, and same problem. In the meantime I had rebooted at least a couple of times off of Sandbox without an issue. Something seems to be failing here...any thoughts about what it might be? Some kind of corruption issue, it seems. |
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That seems weird. The only thing I can think of is that the 'original drive' was, for some reason, either not present or had a different name...
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Is there a possibility that something is amiss on the "underlying drive" such that the symlinks created by SD! are getting corrupted? I did run both Disk Warrior and the disk repair facility in Disk Utility. The former showed some little stuff (such as incorrect icons), and Disk Utility showed nothing wrong. |
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Sure, that's possible... but not likely. I really don't know why that would be unless, again, the drive wasn't available for some reason when you logged in. Very strange.
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(I want to state explicitly what I hope is implicit is that I am emphatically NOT suggesting that SuperDuper is in any way responsible for this behavior. I don't have ANY reason to suggest this is the case.) |
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Oh, I understand. I don't think it's SD! either. After all, a Sandbox is just a copy with symlinks, and when you're running from it we're not doing anything at all.
What's unexpected is that something would change that would 'break' the connection between the volumes.
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