How do I drag downloaded items into my hard drive?

how do I drag downloaded items into my hard drive?

Open a Finder window & drag your downloaded items anywhere you want. 

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  • How do I get my photos into my  hard drive?

    I have 800 photos in the library of the iPhoto application.  But when I go to my user file on my hard drive and open the pictures file it is empty.  Therefore none of them are saved with Time Machine.  Shouldn't there be two sets of m photos:  1 in the iPhoto app and one on my hard drive? If so, how do I get the pbotos into my hard drive so that they are in both places.  I want them to be where they are backed up in time machine but don't know how to get them into my user file.
    I  hope this makes sense....I am not even sure of the terminology I'm using!

    If the Pictures folder is empty - no iPhoto Library - then open iPhoto and select iPhoto prefs>Advanced - there is a check box Importing - if it is not selected then this might be why there is nothing in the Pictures folder.
    When iPhoto imports or adds content to the iPhoto library it is given the same name as the orginal file. iPhoto is making a copy which it stores on your HD. The default location for iPhoto libraries is in User Account>Pictures>iPhoto Library. This is where the actual files are kept. If you select the iPhoto Library icon and 'control' - click you will get a dialog. From that list choose 'Show Package Contents' - in there you will find where iPhoto has stored the file. You can also get to the file by selecting the file in iPhoto when it is open and from the file menu select 'Reveal in Finder' - In previous versions of iPhoto you could get to the file using 'control' (right) -click.
    Anyhow - you want to make sure your library is backed up. I am not a user of TM - I use SuperDuper to clone my HD - regardless you need to tell TM which items to back up - as long as you include the Pictures folder then your iPhoto files (not the app) will be backed up.
    MJ

  • How do i drag a folder onto my hard drive?

    How do i drage a folder onto the hard drive when requestted. I am trying to install some software.

    Are you getting a message similar to this...
    ... if so, do exactly that, drag the icon over the folder icon and let go. The software will be copied over to the Applications folder within your HARD DRIVE.

  • Can't drag or drop into external hard drive anymore. Worked perfectly before.

    I bought a Seagate external hard drive about a year ago. I reformatted it the moment I took it out of the box, plugged it into my laptop, and everything worked perfectly. I dragged and dropped as I liked, and nothing went wrong with it at all. Then I decided to restore my laptop to do a bit of spring cleaning, and suddenly, I can't drag anything INTO the hard drive or open any programs either. It shows up on my desktop and Finder. And I can take things OUT of it, thankfully, but I can't put anything into it, which is extremely frustrating because I use my hard drive as storage and backup.
    I did a bit of looking around online, and people are saying that I'll need to reformat it (which I already did), but it'll erase everything in it. Because my hard drive holds almost 300 GB, I'm not too keen on doing that, because it will take AGES, and there's no confirmation that that will actually work. If you have any solutions, please help! And please go step by step as well--I'm absolutely no good with the tech language.

    1. verify same on another Mac if possible.
    2. Go to disk utility and check verify and repair on the drive and see if it checks out
    3. You never should again even consider having a single external copy of you data, at any time for any reason, HD are too cheap to endanger your data like that.
    4. Likely dead SATA bridge card, however I cant recall an instance in which communication was one way on an external with a dead SATA bridge card.
    verify 1 and 2,  and SMC reset your Mac and verify again
    SMC reset
    Shut down the computer.
    Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
    On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
    Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
    Press the power button to turn on the computer. 
    Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
    Then I decided to restore my laptop to do a bit of spring cleaning,
    Define what you did in your "restore" and spring cleaning.

  • How can I erase deleted items from the hard drive?

    How can I erase deleted files from the hard drive?  Will my machine run faster?

    If you've already deleted the files and emptied the Trash they are already, in effect, erased. At least the disk space they occupied is now available.
    To be able to offer help we need more information about which Mac you have, which OS you are running, how much RAM you have installed, how much hard disk space you have available, etc.
    Go to the Apple Menu>About this Mac - copy and paste the contents of the report here (deleting the serial number of your machine). Once we have that info, I'm sure someone will have some suggestions.

  • How do I install downloads to my external hard drive?

    The download manager automatically installs everything to my C: drive. I am running out of room on my little laptop. :P
    How do I tell the download manager to install to my external hard drive? This is for games and fun stuff.
    I have Windows Vista on the laptop.
    Thanks.

    DEpends on what you want to do - your question is not clear
    If you want to copy your iPhoto library to your external drive simply drag it to the external drive either as back up or to run it there
    If you want more usable copies of your photos on your external drive use the iPhoto program to export them (file menu ==> exports) to the external drive
    LN

  • How do I save iMovies onto an external hard drive?

    I have several hours of home movies on i movie that i would like to now back up onto my external hard drive, but when I am on the desktop and try to drag the movies into the hard drive they bounce back & cut and paste does not work either.... what am I missing??

    And assuming dwb is right and the drive IS formatted with NTFS (which is my suspicion as well) you have several options. You could reformat the drive with FAT or Mac OS Extended, which the Mac could write to, but would also erase all files currently on the external drive. OR you could download an NTFS driver such as Paragon which should enable your Mac to write to an NTFS drive without reformatting.

  • I recently created a new folder, dragged some items into it, and found that the entire contents of my desktop appeared to be in there as well. This happens every time I make a new folder. Any suggestions?

    I recently created a new folder on my MacBook, dragged some items into it, and found that the entire contents of my desktop appeared to be in the folder as well. This happens every time I make a new folder. Any suggestions?

    Csound1 What Ive been trying to explain is that I have been running bootcamp, I open the app where the first screen is the introduction, i hit continue, the first time I select "download the latest windows support software fromm Apple" then I return and instead select "Install Windows 7." Then hit continue. The third screen is where I "Create a Partition for Windows" I set Windows to 80 gigs then hit INSTALL. As stated before Bootcamp cannot find the install drivers saying "The installer disc could not be found." My windows software is on a USB drive not a disc, I tried using a virtual disc reader to make it appear that the windows software was running on a disc, still no luck. What I would like to know is how to install windows on bootcamp.

  • How to delete the downloading items in itunes?

    how to delete the downloading items in itunes?

    Unfortunately, this doesn't work. If you let them download and delete them, they just download again at some point in the future. I've been trying to figure this one out myself, but so far, every time I remove something, it comes back "later".
    Steve

  • How do I remove Apple Mail from my hard drive? Over 10,000 downloaded into my mail and continues to freeze up---  I just want to use my gmail account directly

    How do I remove Apple Mail from my hard drive? Over 10,000 downloaded into my mail and continues to freeze up---  I just want to use my gmail account directly

    I go to Gmail to do my email yes, in my browser, but ya know how sometimes you click on a website to email someone and it pulls up apple mail, and then tons of email dump into apple mail and it frequently causes my computer to lock up and have to shut down w/escape.  I thought it would be  better to take it off if I could

  • Not able to drag WEB items into the Layout. What can be the issue?

    Hi all
    I am not able to drag WEB items into the Layout. Is it a Basis issue? Or some changes in the settings need gto be done.
    Thanks

    Solved my own problem.  Didn't realize I had to export the preview file from iBooks author.  Once I did that, I was able to select that file within the preview box.

  • I can't drag any item into itunes, it seems locked

    i can't drag any item into itunes, it seems locked

    I found the problem. I have VMware fusion that is hosting Window XP on the iMac. When the fusion is running the CD player is not seen in OS. By quitting Fusion I can now insert a CD and the disk icon appears on the OS screen. Now I can bring up iTunes and import the audio and continue as before. The one exception is I cannot bring in a photo of the album cover as before I have to drag the photo out of iPhoto and onto the desk top. Then I can drag it into the artwork patch in the iTunes/ info window.

  • I can not drag graphic items into or out of the Creative Cloud library in Illustrator CC 2014

    I've recently upgraded to the new 2014.1.0 release that includes linked Creative Cloud Libraries. However, it appears that my version of Illustrator is not allowing me to drag graphic items into or out of the library panel. I can use the menu prompts and panel buttons to add items to my library or document, however the drag feature is not working. You can see the issue in the screencast below. If anyone else is having this problem and has figured out a solution, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's worth noting that the panel works as advertised in other applications within Creative Suite CC. Thank you.
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    Hello and thanks for your response!
    I'm running OS X 10.9.5. I've tried restarting the machine and clearing preferences, yet the problem remains. I may try to reinstall the program to see if that corrects the issue.

  • How do i install downloaded brushes into Photoshop mac version

    how do i install downloaded brushes into Photoshop mac version

    Step 1 : Download the brush file to ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Presets/Brushes.
    Step 2: Open Photoshop and open up a document.
    Step 3: Click the Brush tool, then click the sized brush, then the small arrow and hit ‘Load Brushes’, choose the brushes you want and then hit OK.
    The brushes should now appear in your list and be able to be selected and used. They should also appear the next time you fire up Photoshop.
    Hope that Helps!

  • How can I stop downloading pictures into iPhoto and start down loading into a portable hard drive?

    How can I stop downloading pictures into iPhoto and start down loading into a portable hard drive?

    You could use the Image Capture application.

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