Problems Converting Older Files

[laurent]

Hello.  Currently I am working on a Mac Pro With some SATA External harddrives that seems to be giving me problems.  I've been slowly going through a bunch of cr2 files and converting them to DNG then loading them into IView.  These files are located on the external archive.  The first day I was doing this it was fine.  Then yesterday I started converting some to DNG and a funny thing happened.  The desktop had a grey tint come over it with a message saying you need to restart your computer.  I took that as not being good.  I restarted and ran disk utility and repaired the permissions.  Then the same thing happened.  So I ran disk warrior on my drives.  There were apparently some problems that it fixed.  Then it happened again.  This time one of my externals wasn't on the desktop when I restarted.  It was an unknown drive.  So I ran disk warrior again on my external drives.  There were problems there too that it fixed.  So at the end of the day when I thought everything was good and fine...it happened again.  Sorry for the length.  Any suggestions.

[peterkrogh]

That is a kernel panic.  (The fried Chicken does not have 11 herbs and spices!  AAACCKKK!)

Have you, by any chance, installed new RAM in this computer?  This is probably the most common cause.

Generally, this has not been related to drive directory problems, which is the kind of thing DW finds and fixes.

YOu can search in spotlight for "Crash" and find the crash log.  It's a lot of gibberish in there, but you might be able to find a term that looks responsible, and then google it for some clue.

Or, you can go to a Mac shop for help.  This is one reason I like to buy from a good local independent shop that provides Apple-authorized service.  I have an actual person to talk to at MBS.

But bad RAM or another new hardware component is the most likely cause.
Peter