External hard drive problem. cant copy.
im having trouble copying things to my external drive. i.e to itunes becauce i have moved the itunes folder there to save space, but now cant copy any thing into itunes or direct on to hd. i have "get info" and the sharing is read and write, any help please.
iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
So I spent entire day yesterday moving files from that 1TB NTFS drive to other storage. Then I used Disk Utility to format it as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
Then I tried again to copy iPhoto Library from MBP to that drive. And got error -36 message. Then I got a message that item named "iPhoto Library" already exists on that disk, therefore Copy can not proceed. What's interesting is that now I can not delete that item either (due to permissions issue).
Weird, as I am the owner of the file. I also changed the permissions on iPhoto Library with IPLM to RWX for all users (Owner, Group and Everyone). And the same permissions are set on the storage drive.
Now I am trying to rebuild the library with IPLM and store it on the storage drive - but it takes forever. Hopefully, then I will be able to rename the original on MBP to iPhoto Library.old and follow the rest of the instructions to establish a new library location.
And who said Macs were easier then Windows? All my wife wanted is to have pictures off-loaded from her HD.
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thats the problem, its in MSDos (Fat) or NTFS for Windows.
Options.....
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ScottBatlo wrote:
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I guess you're using 8.1?
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