So, I have to re-update the pathname for my external drive for RealTracks and RealDrums EVERY DAY, because it SEEMS like Snow Leopard is in some way renaming my external drive every day.

It's like this ... BIAB opens by telling me the volume for RealDrums/RealTracks doesn't exist.
Which is odd because yesterday it did exist just fine!

The volume I'm using is a LaCie 1TB external drive.

So, I browse and choose the pathname for the external drive, then it works.
The weird part is that every day the pathname that works is different, has a different numerical suffix.

Examples...

YESTERDAY, after I browsed and updated the external pathname for RealDrums, it was
/Volumes/LaCie 39/BIAB 10 Drums/Drums
(which worked).

YESTERDAY, after I browsed and updated the external pathname for RealTracks, it was
/Volumes/LaCie 39/BIAB 10 RealTracks/RealTracks
(which worked).

But TODAY, those pathnames 'does not exist'. So TODAY, I re-browse, and update the pathnames to:
/Volumes/LaCie 40/BIAB 10 Drums/Drums
and
/Volumes/LaCie 40/Biab 10 RealTracks/RealTracks
(which worked). Notice how there's a '40' now as part of the volume name.

The correct, actual drive name, for my LaCie external drive,
as it shows in Finder, and as it shows on my Desktop icon for that drive,
is simply:
"LaCie"
(*not* "LaCie 39"
or
"LaCie 40")

After researching a little bit, I found a folder called Volumes
which showed multiple copies of the LaCie drive name.
I saw a *folder* called LaCie 1, a *folder* called LaCie 2,
etc, all the way up thru LaCie 40. By their dates, they were created every night when
I did Shut Down, for a period of 40 nights.

So I'm guessing
Snow Leopard creates these alias names, adding an incremented numerical
suffix to the volume name, for some reason, at certain times.
Then when BIAB browses for volume names, it always looks for the LAST name on the some list,
and that list is changing every day, so ... yesterday's name
that I entered in BIAB yesterday, does not exist today.

I tried changing my LaCie drive standby setting to where the
LaCie drive just stays on all the time, instead of going to
standby when the computer is asleep or shutdown. This
action did not solve the BIAB RealDrums/RealTracks pathname
problem at all.


Thanks for any help with this. Including ... where to
look for help if not here.


MacBook Pro OSX 10.6.4, BIAB 2010 Build 19

Last edited by WadeCottingham; 07/12/10 04:52 AM.