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Weird bug. Switching the USB port in use fixed it. iPad 2 with Lion, iOS 4.3.5.

First, you buy a LaCie D2 drive. You’re excited.

My new Lacie D2 Network drive is Time Machine compatible. That means it’s really easy to setup with Time Machine – no hacks required, it just gets detected.

LaCie D2 Network – Time Machine

Then, you get blamed for running a .exe from a share on it. That exe was the MS Office installer. Why was that a problem? EXEs are not compatible with the drive’s operating system !

It was related to running the .exe file on the drive.  The file is proprietary to an OS such as XP, Vista, or Mac OS X.  Running the file on a non-conforming OS is going to create severe havoc and other issues.  I am glad the reset resolved the issue.

Lacie Tech Support doesn’t know what a share is

And then, you ask them about firmware updates to fix some small issues here and there, and this is what they tell you, barely over a year after you bought it:

Since this type of unit is no longer made, it’s unlikely there will be any further firmware updates for

So am I surprised that my piece of junk Lacie D2 NAS does not support the latest AFP protocol required for Time Machine?

Of course I’m not. But who cares, it’s not like I trusted the thing as my main backup anyways.

Cause: The LaCie NAS OS does not support Time Machine with Mac OS X Lion.
Solution: Use Mac OS X 10.6.x or earlier when using Time Machine to back up your Mac to a LaCie network hard drive.

But I’m sorry. The solution is actually to buy hardware from a company that at least pretends to give a damn. Apple should be ashamed of allowing this junk in an Apple store. I don’t care how cool your USB sticks look or how fast your Thunderbolt drives are, LaCie, I’d rather use old Sony 1.44inch floppies. Oh, and I called my D2 “Lassie”, cause it runs like a dog.

A very small post for people searching about this specific issue:

You’re trying to delete an icon/shortcut from the sidebar in Finder, under Mac OS X Lion/10.7.

Right clicking doesn’t work, because that folder does not exist, or maybe it points to a share using an old version of AFP or SMB that you can’t connect to, because some company that almost has the same name as a famous dog if you pronounce it in french is a bad company that doesn’t update the firmware on any hardware old enough to have a lot of important data on it.

What you need to do is hold command and drag it to Trash instead of doing a right click.

1. Back up your SHSH blobs using Tiny Umbrella. That’s unrelated but you should do it at every firmware release anyways.
2. Check your hosts file and comment out entries for gs.apple.com (I forgot to do this, as I always do)
   

   Comment out ALL entries for gs.apple.com

3. Dev-Team Blog – Download redsn0w (you may permanently lose ability to unlock if you use redsn0w, as usual)
4. Back it up !
5. Update it in iTunes using the update button. For a cleaner result use restore. I  can’t vouch for how good the update is on this one, as I had to do a restore after I forgot to do step 2..
6. Eat a snack as iTunes restores your phone. If you have authorization issues be sure to check your hosts file for entries entered by Tiny Umbrella, and kick yourself for not following step 2.
   

   This is usually caused by authorization failures

7. Once the restore of the firmware is done, close iTunes before restoring the backup. That way, if the Jailbreak fails, you haven’t wasted time restoring data.
8. Run redsn0w
9. I recommend eating fat-free cheese as you wait as it is a healthy snack that will leave your fingers relatively grease free.
10. Run Cydia twice (1st time will prepare the filesystem, second time download package info).
11. If there are any updates to be done, go for it.
12. Launch iTunes and restore.
13. Go to sleep as iTunes compresses the gigs and gigs of music that were on your phone before you ruined it all.

Next time you hear someone say that, send them to my latest built-in-three-minutes website:
Is not a backup dot Info