SuperDuper! not loading on Lion
 

Just updated to Lion and when I try to run SuperDuper! it starts to load then just goes away, no message, no error box. Any suggestions?

Make sure you've updated to the current release, 2.6.4 (downloadable from the SuperDuper! page).

I have downloaded 2.6.4 and it does load now. However now I cannot select other drives. Let me explain, let's say I have a drive named drive1 as my main HD and drive2 as my backup. I select drive1 as my source drive and the drop down shows all my other drives, but the only one that is available to select is drive1 all the other available drives are greyed out.

Sounds like they're not formatted for the Mac (HFS+) but are rather formatted for Windows.

No Sir, they are HFS+ drives, I have been using SuperDuper! for at least 4 years and have had no problems. I'm not suggesting this is a Shirt Pocket problem, but maybe a Mac Lion issue. these are two drobo boxes that have been working without issue for the past two years with SuperDuper! Since my upgrade to Lion I have had this issue. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had an issue. I'm willing to try anything to get SuperDuper! to work. I can see and use both Drobo's with Lion, I just cannot select source and target drives like I use to with Snow Leopard.

We only disable drives if they:

- Are read-only
- You're running from them (disabled as a destination)
- They're not formatted as HFS+

Otherwise, perhaps you need to try to restart your Mac? That's what I'd try.

How can I check if they have been labeled as read only? I'm running from mac mini built in HD. The two Drobo's are external USB. They must be HFS+ as I have been using them for several years with SuperDuper! One is main drive the other is a backup. Again, no finger pointing, I think this is directly related to the recent upgrade to Lion.

One quick thing to check. Do a GetInfo on the drive and see if you've checked the Ignore ownership box. I've found that Lion is much stricter on this.

I am running SuperDuper! just fine under Lion with external disks and it sees them all fine. I'm not running Drobo disks however.

BINGO, this worked for me. Now everything is back to normal. I never would have thought to look in that area. Thank you so much for your input and involvement in helping me find the answer I needed. Also thank you all for your input. It's a great community that helps everyone.

Um, no - we actually require ownership to be on, and turn it on after we run. Perhaps the drive were set up to be read-only for your user?

That's what unchecking the ownership box does. "Ignore ownership on this volume" Checking it means to ignore, unchecking is what I believe SuperDuper! used to do under 10.6.8 but it looks like things have changed in Lion. This might be something for you to check and confirm.

I discovered this when installing Lion on an external drive. It installed fine under 10.6.8 but I couldn't boot it under Lion, if fact my Lion computer would not even see the drive when connected by Firewire. It would when connected by USB. I sent the drive back to OWC and they said it was fine. I tested my drive in another housing that I knew worked and it wouldn't see it. I finally saw the ownership checkbox, unchecked it and everything is fine. Under 10.6.8, it didn't seem to matter. I could boot off a backup drive that had Ignore ownership checked but not with Lion. Of course, I could be going crazy but I think this is one of those things that's changed in Lion.

Sorry, reversed the sense of your comments. Weird, though - will check. But we don't block volumes for having ownership off (unless that causes that volume to be excluded for the reasons I already listed).

It is weird and that's what caught me off guard. I can check my other backups running under 10.6.8 and see if they will boot when ownership is checked (ignore). If it does, then I'm pretty sure it won't under Lion.

But his issue wasn't whether he could boot from it. It was whether or not it was available in SuperDuper! itself.

southwos, please check
 

Southwos, Were you able to see the disks on your desktop in Lion? (Depends on how your Finder prefs are set up whether it shows them of not.) If so, please run the following command:

diskutil list

What does your computer see? Try checking the ignore box again and see if the problem returns (SuperDuper! not seeing the drives). If it does, run the command again and compare them. Any differences?

Dnanian, I know Lion is handling disks differently, especially when encrypting them. I have not seen southwos' problem, I seem to always see the drive but I've been using SuperDuper! for so long I might have missed some things. I also wonder if Drobos make any difference with Lion. I hear NAS drives are having some problems.

---just tried checking the ignore ownership box on my backup drive. Unmounted then remounted it. SD still sees it just fine. Unchecked the box to put it back to where it was. The external drive is encrypted and it still asked for the unlock password so once these things work, it might not make any difference if that box is checked (might be ignored).